Category: words

  • Bay Area Professors Write ‘Decolonial’ Mexican Cookbook to Reclaim the Traditional Foods of Their Ancestors

    Bay Area Professors Write ‘Decolonial’ Mexican Cookbook to Reclaim the Traditional Foods of Their Ancestors To read and taste. see also chef Adán Medrano’s Texas-Mexican Cookbook.

  • The phenomenon of immigrant children becoming “brokers” of their families’ new culture is well-documented and studied. Children translate phone conversations, documents and even road signs for their parents, which throws traditional family dynamics for a loop—a point that both Cuentos and Gonzalez brought up. “Kids run into problems with technology where they need their parents,…

  • yalegraphicdesign: Untitled (September magazine), by artist Paul Elliman, takes the form of a 600 page glossy magazine, completely absent of any editorial text, and comprised instead only of cropped and juxtaposed images collected by Elliman over many years. The publication conveys in itself a kind of text spelled out in body shapes, signs and gestures.

  • aclockworkorange: Poppy fields, Antelope Valley

  • thedigitalmuseum: Museopunks regularly digs into some of the more innovative practice in museums, but so far, we’ve haven’t tackled curating. In this episode, Suse catches up with one of the most powerful people in the world of art – Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design, Director of Research & Development, MoMA – to…

  • putthison: Reshoring Textiles The country we’ve insulted for the last fifty years, calling them a low-skill, low-quality manufacturer, is coming to the US to train our workers. The New York Times has a story about how Chinese firms are setting up textile companies in South Carolina. Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month…

  • (via Eyeo2013 Ignite #12 – Kevin Slavin on Vimeo) Kevin Slavin revealing the source of the Internet of Feline Things that has led to the Felixocene. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • progress report

    late report for yesterday, 2015 11 03. I had some dental work in the morning, and got a migraine as we were driving to the appointment. this knocked me out for most of the day. I did manage to do some online searching for the F/LOSS sofa for Casa Jasmina. Someone already created a Filo…

  • (via Slow Game (in development) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!) I’m intrigued by the title of Garnet Hertz’s Slow Game project. He is sharing work in progress photos through Flickr. (Source: https://www.flickr.com/)

  • Arena Net’s Guild Wars 2, meanwhile, was designed in a way different from many other online games to change how experience points and loot were distributed, rewarding players for random acts of collaboration rather than competition. The latter in particular is a true feat of programming, showing how to both innovate in game design and…