Category: words

  • mostlysignssomeportents: Fascinating, wide-ranging discussion with William Gibson Fenwick writes, “I had the tremendous opportunity to have a public talk with William Gibson when my university asked if I’d would to do a public talk with a public figure. I had no idea I’d be so lucky as to talk with William Gibson when I agreed. I…

  • Thinking Ahead

    ourrisd: This Friday, April 24, RISD and Brown are co-hosting Critical Design/Critical Futures, a full-day symposium open to everyone with an interest in shaping the future.  Conversations will focus on recent advances in speculative design and how designers and social scientists are coming together to rethink the role of design and education in the face of…

  • louisrielforever: Many wise words can be found in the pages of Calvin and Hobbes.

  • nevver: Let’s play The Shining

  • (via Biodiversity open card game, like Pokemon for science – Boing Boing) Rule set and a starter deck of cards to print at home can be found at Phylo.org. Art contributions are welcomed.

  • designfictions: Paper prototyping our Micro-Service App concepts This week we took our Micro-Service App concepts (from last week’s session) to a low fidelity (LoFi) prototype stage to test the initial UI designs. Our LoFi Masterclass: A presentation taking the class through the many good reasons to paper prototype including a discussion on the best practice…

  • hyperallergic: Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations, launched a guerrilla inauguration for the “fracked gas line museum.” Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney…

  • taleoftales: Caviar or Macaroni? A message from SUNSET‬ Market –where choices are meaningful.http://sunset.voyage

  • He also saves millions of dollars in import tariffs by keeping some of his imported artworks in duty-free zones set up by the government. He gets a temporary import license when he wants to exhibit one of them. The Expensive Antics of China’s Gaudiest Billionaire – Bloomberg Business via @teacup  (via iamdanw)

  • emergentfutures: Disney’s New 3D Printer Prototype Makes Huggable Things Out Of Fabric Instead Of Hard Plastic Built by Disney’s research lab along with researchers from Cornell and CMU, this 3D printer isn’t like most printers we’ve come to know. It’s neither extruding melted material (like a Makerbot) or blasting a tub of goo with UV…