Category: words

  • currentsnewmedia: Jenn Law is an artist, writer and researcher living in Toronto. She is a member of Loop Gallery and Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Centre, where she works in print media, cut paper and book work. Entitled “Re-inventing the Wheel”, this miniature 3D printing press is fully functional, designed from blueprints for a full-size intaglio…

  • hipinuff: Red Square: Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions Kasimir Malevich (1915), Oil on canvas, 53 x 53 cm. The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. 

  • thirstybychoice: melanebony: White privilege is not having to worry about the ethnic diversity in a college that you truly want to attend and being scared of facing marginalization and discrimination whilst being there This is huge

  • baeyonettas: Selena (1997)

  • madewithpaper: Pencil Support Comes to Astropad Meet our latest Pencil partner, Astropad, a beautiful graphic design app that lets you mirror your Mac screen right onto your iPad. Pair Pencil with Astropad to draw directly into Photoshop or any app on your Mac, and turn your iPad into a professional graphics tablet!  The latest Astropad…

  • mochafleur: A cultural aesthetic that addresses the concerns of the Afro diaspora through radical reinvention and reimagining. #afrofuturist #afrofuturism

  • blech: Ben FIno-Radin on MoMA’s Digital Art Vault: there is essentially nothing about a QuickTime .MOV file that says, “Hello, I am a video file! You should use this sort of software to view me.” We rely on specially designed software—be it an operating system or something more specialized—to tell us these things. The problem is…

  • Social sustainability is largely neglected in mainstream sustainability debates. Priority has been given to economic and environmental sustainability in particular in the context of planning, housing and communities, where policy and investment has focused on renewable resources, low carbon communities and encouraging pro-environmental behaviour in households. As a result, there are few practical resources that…

  • The clone that wasn’t

    mostlysignssomeportents: Could you design a brand-new game using only a deck of classic playing cards? It’s a cool idea – repurposing familiar components in an original context. But the design for the game that would become Donsol was born out of necessity, the mother of invention. A pack of cards was all the creators had…

  • gjmueller: Video games can power up from merely fun to meaningful experiences It may be game over for critics who claim that video games are nothing more than a fun diversion. A team of researchers suggests that many games can be meaningful entertainment experiences for players. In a study of people’s experiences with video games,…