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my umbilicus from my nearest power outlet to my sofa. the boundary between sofa and not sofa becomes fuzzy when seen from the point of view of the umbilicus. this sofa is not against the wall. my living situation affords a luxurious amount of space at present and so the sofa is free standing, four…
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kellysue: oswinstark: jaclcfrost: did you know: there are people who can lie down, at a reasonable hour, and just sleep? fall asleep, easily? regularly? on a regular basis? roughly every night? wild Let me tell you guys I had the worst fucking issues with this bullshit Like I would be on my computer and then…
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Arguably the Anthropocene itself is due less to technology run amok than to the humanist legacy that understands the world as having been given for our needs and created in our image. We see this still everywhere. Our computing culture is deeply confused, and is so along these same lines. We vacillate between thinking of…
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A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk
A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk wolfliving: rafaelfajardo: posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all…
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Coplan’s careful use of the phrase “level of shyness” is a good reminder that introversion and extroversion are not diametrically opposed in black and white fashion; and in any case, people’s personalities shift depending on the time and situation. As Jill Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig explained in their paper for the College of William and…
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Chronicle.com: What made you decide to leave your post as a professor and dean at MIT to start your own university? Christine Ortiz: I’ve been at MIT for 17 years, and it’s been amazing. And I’ve always been interested in curriculum and thinking about the future of the research university, and I did a lot…
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List of shibboleth names
lazenby: Paul Erdősby which the privileged judge their inferiors A Chinua Achebe (chin-oo-ah ah-chay-bae) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (chim-ah-man-da nnnn-go-zeh ah-dee-che) James Agee (a-jee) Jerzy Andrzejewski (yer-zhay ahn-zhay-ev-ski) Hannah Arendt (ahr-ent) Martha Argerich (mar-tah herr-each) Eugène Atget (oo-zhenne at-zhey) Augustine of Hippo (aw-gus-tin) B Angelo Badalamenti (bottle-ah-menti) Donald/Frederick Barthelme (barth-uhl-me) Karl Barth (bart) Roland Barthes (bart) Tycho Brahe (Danish…
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(via Masquespacio unveils Missana collaboration Take a pew: Masquespacio unveils debut furniture collection for Missana | Wallpaper* Magazine) another sofa to help me think about Casa Jasmina and the global influence of the Internet of Italian Things (IoIT). in this case a re-interpretation of Post-Modern interiors where the Memphis of Sotsass and Branzi is somehow…
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A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk
A Multifunctional Sofa Named Herb – Design Milk posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all want. so…
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Malcolm Grear | 1931–2016
ourrisd: Professor Emeritus Malcolm Grear, a renowned designer and devoted teacher who was deeply connected to the RISD community for more than half a century, died on Sunday, January 24, 2016. He was 84 and living in Wakefield, RI. After arriving here to teach in 1960, the Kentucky native not only helped build the Graphic…