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comicsworkbook: Hodler: A big part of the book is about visual literacy and visual language and visual perception. Everyone seems to agree that visual literacy is becoming more important in our culture, yet why is it that we don’t seem to study it much or talk about it as much as you might expect, given…
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A book to help everyone make a living with Creative Commons
mostlysignssomeportents: We want to write a book about the ways creators and businesses make money to sustain what they do when they give away their work for free under Creative Commons licenses. We’re funding the project through Kickstarter. The book will be freely available to everyone. We think it’s an inspiring and important project and…
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Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they’re rich kids with safety nets
Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they’re rich kids with safety nets need to follow through with footnotes for the cited studies to evaluate their reliability.
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Lucy Lippard laments in the postface to Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1966 to 1972: “Hopes that ‘conceptual art’ would be able to avoid the general commercialization, the destructively ‘progressive’ approach of modernism were unfounded. It seemed in 1969 that no one, not even a public greedy for novelty, would actually pay…
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As early as 1962, Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha published his Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations. The conceptual work was a book comprised of black-and-white photographs of 26 gas stations. It was not a precious artist’s book, and the photographs did not exist as art apart from the book. The unglamorous, mass-produced (the first printing was an edition of 400) book was…
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Minimalism also fought Greenberg’s orthodoxy at the same time as conceptual art—by rejecting the Modernist idea of painting and instead working with industrial materials—but contained the dialogue within the gallery system. Conceptual art sought to work outside of the gallery and the art world. How to Think About Conceptual Art | Art for Sale |…
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Using Robots as a Metaphor: An Interview with Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen
Using Robots as a Metaphor: An Interview with Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen hangingfire: One of the two very cool interviews I did at SDCC this year. (Also, Descender is GREAT.)
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hyperallergic: Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca. Artist and game designer Stern’s multichannel game stretches 36 feet across four screens, where visitors can interact with environments set in both 2015 and 1965. Gaming…
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code drawing 2015 07 18 01d various states, by rafaelfajardo