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I was a person of color in a workshop whose theory of reality did not include my most fundamental experiences as a person of color—that did not in other words include me. Junot Díaz reflects on the whiteness of the MFA program: http://nyr.kr/1fzDYPu (via newyorker)
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tacanderson: Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set The LeapBand, designed for kids ages 4 to 7, gives kids commands like “wiggle like a worm” or “pop like popcorn” and then rewards the activity by giving points that can be used to unlock special game features on the band. When kids get…
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Frida Kahlo (via anemptyspace)
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typicalhope: GIFsizetest-1/400×348-1.036MB wow.Tumblr can upload GIFs in this size. thanks to Admiral Potato and Tumblr! http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/post/83602107169/norb-1-and-2
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humanoidhistory: The Moon, circa 1610, illustrated by Galileo Galilei.
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With the advent of computers everything has become more and more conceptual and we’ve lost touch with the realm of the tactile. Calligraphy is a way of getting back in touch… Jean-Louis Cohen, quoted in this mini-documentary about how French schools teach handwriting (via austinkleon)
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Why you should stop taking pictures on your phone – and learn to draw
Why you should stop taking pictures on your phone – and learn to draw Before the invention of photography, people used to draw far more than they do today. It was an active necessity. But in the mid-19th century, photography killed drawing. It became something only ‘artists’ would ever do, so Ruskin – passionate promoter…
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cyborges: “This is the labyrinth of Crete. This is the labyrinth of Crete whose center was the Minotaur. This is the labyrinth of Crete whose center was the Minotaur that Dante imagined as a bull with a man’s head in whose stone net so many generations were as lost as María Kodama and I were…
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The phone company gave birth to Unix. Now there is no phone company and Unix runs on your phone. The Great Works of Software (via azspot)