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Generating lots of ideas works well for improvements, but it doesn’t help to spot new directions. If companies don’t change the lens through which they assess ideas, they won’t be able to identify the outsiders they should seek, know what questions to ask them, and recognize their most valuable input. As a result, they will…
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The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo
The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo The underlying tactic shared among them is at least a partial abandonment of paint in favor of digital-based printing; as a surprisingly catchy song accompanying the animated trailer for this exhibition stresses, “brushstrokes are for snitches, brushstrokes are for bitches.” Chris Bexar’s print-on-canvas works are based…
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We have to think about inclusion, acceptance and diversity, to start. We need to think deeply about our language and communications, and the way we express what technology does. We need to question the mythologies we build around concepts like “founders” or “inventions” or even “startups”. We need to challenge our definitions of success and…
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Phantom Public
Phantom Public azspot: In 1948 Norbert Wiener coined the term “cybernetics,” derived from the Greek term for “steersman.” The appeal of cybernetics, as Turner writes, lay in its “picture of humans and machines as dynamic, collaborating elements in a single, highly fluid, socio-technical system” where “control emerged not from the mind of a commanding officer,…
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It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “Black professional”…
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offbeatawkward: victorpopejr: Save the Fajitas I hunt my own fajitas. Free range. my brother was called fajita in high school
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kenyatta: npr: Star Wars: The Force Awakens revolves around the story of staff-wielding scavenger Rey. (That’s hardly a spoiler; she’s front-and-center in the movie poster, after all.) But in the world of Star Wars toys, Rey’s been hard to find — and fans took to social media, under the hashtags #WheresRey and #WhereisRey, to complain…
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On the other hand, it must be satisfying to see his gifts as a director, so long forgotten, be praised. “The Force Awakens” makes it once again possible to think about George Lucas as a man of imagination, of conviction, and (minus Jar Jar Binks) of taste—as a brilliant appropriator rather than an average one.…
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Herein lies the inherent problem with this interactive poverty game. When I’m playing the game, I’m faced with decisions like whether to pay to fix my broken car or start taking the bus instead. I make a decision (taking the bus) and then I see the outcome of that decision (saving money but sometimes being…
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reluctantconquistador: Uhhhhh (Source: https://vine.co/)