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actionables: Because news cameras are apparently only there if looting and protests are mentioned, here are some shots from the march for peace in Charleston yesterday. In case you missed it, thousands marched to Ravenel Bridge, holding hands in prayer and unity. Yet this doesn’t make news, but an interview with the killer’s friend does.…
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Brown Girl in the Ring- Indiegogo Campaign
Brown Girl in the Ring- Indiegogo Campaign starklyinaccurate: poc-creators: Director Sharon Lewis has launched a crowd-funding campaign to create the first caribbean canadian sci-fi feature film Brown Girl in the Ring: The Prequel. A coming of age story set in a futuristic ghetto, inspired by the award-winning novel by Nalo Hopkinson. The campaign Brown Girl in…
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In their blog post, Harvey and Samyn address the “failure” of their most recent release, Sunset. Despite a development philosophy and marketing strategy tuned to connect the game to a broader audience, the game sold only “a little over 4,000 copies” to date, including units sold to backers of the game’s Kickstarter. Honestly, I’m still…
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[…] a book is a different object every time it is instantiated or read, be it by a human or machinic entity; they become part of the apparatus of the book, a performative apparatus. A Conversation on Digital Archiving Practices with Janneke Adema, Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti (2015)
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The 2015 open source summer reading list [opensource.com]
mostlysignssomeportents: A decade of good books It’s 2004. Google files its IPO. A group of undergrads launche something called “The Facebook” at Harvard University. Apple’s most popular pocket i-thing is years away from taking phone calls. A curious new Linux distribution called “Ubuntu” appears. Opensource.com doesn’t exist. It won’t for another six years. Tech-savvy readers…
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kateoplis: Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and the Gendering of Martyrdom “In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s…
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nevver: Le bat, Jonathan Dahl
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txchnologist: A New Shock Absorber Design This new compression design could be the thing that keeps you out of the auto body shop next time you accidentally back into an unseen post. The prototype above is a 3-D printed, 3.5-inch nylon structure that can repeatedly absorb the energy of a 100 mph fastball in 0.03 seconds.…
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brucesterling: http://www.artbook.com/9781938922787.html
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peraltaproject: After all the exploring Dora decided to get a wash & set from a Dominican salon. #doraconrolo #artlife #studiosession #latin #popart #roloseries