RafaelFajardo

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  • nprfreshair: As A Lyricist And Novelist, The Mountain Goats’ Lead Man Writes About Pain “I really think there’s a lot of music you can use to heal and save yourself. It’s not like I have some magic power and I reached inside somebody and said, ‘Oh, you didn’t know this about yourself until I wrote…

  • Reinventing Cyberpunk in Mr. Robot

    Reinventing Cyberpunk in Mr. Robot hangingfire: Busy week for me at tor.com. This is my anti-hot take on Mr. Robot, more than a week after the series finale. I’ll never make it as an Internet Pop Culture Critic; it takes me at least a solid week to figure out what the hell I actually think…

  • Reinventing Cyberpunk in Mr. Robot

    Reinventing Cyberpunk in Mr. Robot hangingfire: Busy week for me at tor.com. This is my anti-hot take on Mr. Robot, more than a week after the series finale. I’ll never make it as an Internet Pop Culture Critic; it takes me at least a solid week to figure out what the hell I actually think…

  • Born-Digital Art Institutions: TEDxMet

    Born-Digital Art Institutions: TEDxMet … “We’re all born-digital institutions now.” Closing sentence of the article about the initiatives at the Breuer building – once occupied by the Whitney – now occupied as a satellite of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. They’re running a TEDx series as a start.

  • Born-Digital Art Institutions: TEDxMet

    Born-Digital Art Institutions: TEDxMet … “We’re all born-digital institutions now.” Closing sentence of the article about the initiatives at the Breuer building – once occupied by the Whitney – now occupied as a satellite of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. They’re running a TEDx series as a start.

  • 💩 is okay.

    gethopscotch: One of the beautiful and challenging responsibilities bestowed on anyone attempting to build a healthy community — regardless of the age of its members — is establishing norms that prescribe their interactions and behaviors. At Hopscotch, a creative community where kids build and share their own games, we have been knee-deep in this undertaking for several months. A…

  • 💩 is okay.

    gethopscotch: One of the beautiful and challenging responsibilities bestowed on anyone attempting to build a healthy community — regardless of the age of its members — is establishing norms that prescribe their interactions and behaviors. At Hopscotch, a creative community where kids build and share their own games, we have been knee-deep in this undertaking for several months. A…

  • The Mexican Film Ignored by English-Language Press Blew Up the U.S. Box Office This Weekend

    The Mexican Film Ignored by English-Language Press Blew Up the U.S. Box Office This Weekend “Now this is amazing for a number of reasons. First off, Un gallo con muchos huevos was not dubbed into English, but simply left subtitled for otherwise reading-averse American audiences making it the first Spanish-language animated film to be widely…

  • The Mexican Film Ignored by English-Language Press Blew Up the U.S. Box Office This Weekend

    The Mexican Film Ignored by English-Language Press Blew Up the U.S. Box Office This Weekend “Now this is amazing for a number of reasons. First off, Un gallo con muchos huevos was not dubbed into English, but simply left subtitled for otherwise reading-averse American audiences making it the first Spanish-language animated film to be widely…

  • Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth

    Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth “Simply put, are some typefaces more believable than others?” I USED TO WRITE ALL OF MY MANUSCRIPTS IN BEMBO. NOW I WRITE THEM IN BASKERVILLE. —Errol Morris “The answer is yes. Baskerville, a 250-year-old serif originally designed by John Baskerville, was statistically more likely to influence…