Month: July 2014

  • grafiks: Nam June Paik, 1999

  • blerchin: The 2000 United States Census revealed that there are more people who identify their primary occupation as “artist” than as lawyer, doctor, or police officer combined. And each year, our schools graduate another 100,000 students with arts-oriented BFAs, MFAs, and PhDs. Since 7 of the 10 most expensive schools in the country are art…

  • mymodernmet: Photographer Martin Klimas captured the exact moment of these kung-fu porcelain figurines shattering on the ground, resulting in chaotically beautiful images.

  • But the World Cup has ended that run, while simultaneously providing plentiful resources for solving the underlying problem. Thus, yesterday, as Brazil squeaked to victory, I read The Laws Of The Game. It turns out that not only does football consider itself above having anything as commonplace as ‘rules’, it also considers itself above having…

  • “If your identity is inscribed for you from the outside, it’s even more difficult to escape.”

    believermag: Stephanie LaCava talks to Kate Zambreno I was skeptical when a friend told me to read Kate Zambreno’s work of literary criticism about modernist wives entitled Heroines, most likely out of self-preservation. I have my own heroines, they won’t leave me alone, they show up again and again in essays and fantasies. From what I…

  • juanamedina: Go USA!

  • yalegraphicdesign: Wolfgang Weingart, M, photo optical experiment, 1965. Photo collage, Photo: U. Romito, © ZHdK. Exhibiiton Weingart Typographie 5 May – 28 Sept 2014, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

  • scienceyoucanlove: In China, world’s first successful 3D-printed shoulder and collar bone implants have been performed  In Xi’an, China, the capital of Shaanxi province, 3D-printed titanium prostheses were successfully implanted into three patients suffering from cancerous bone tumors. The procedures took place on March 27 and April 3 this year and the patients are currently in…