Category: words

  • I really can’t wrap my mind around what’s happening in Kenya

    jackwhitesguitar: Imagine what the Kenyan people are going through right now. You wake up to news that the University your child or niece or nephew or cousin or neighbour or childhood friend is going to has been stormed by gunmen. The same people who were behind the mall attack less than two years ago. Imagine…

  • ianference: Nearly a decade ago, I took the tunnel system at Rockland State Hospital to the gymnasium/theatre building.  After photographing the gym, I noticed a panel removed, leading under the stage.  Crawling under the stage, I reached a point where there was a hole in the floor – and directly beneath the hole, a bank…

  • The Greek for “to bring forth or to produce” is tikto. The word techne, technique, belongs to the-verb’s root tec. To the Greeks techne means neither art nor handicraft but rather: to make something appear, within what is present, as this or that, in this way or that way. The Greeks conceive of techne, producing,…

  • lafilleblanc: Francis Hewitt Untitled Drawing, Overlap Series, 1966 ink on paper (via)

  • vjeranski: When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.―Agnes Martin

  • How many dark-skin or afro-Latino anchors do you see on Spanish language newscasts?” Medina said in the statement. “How many indigenous Latinos do you see on any newscast, English or Spanish? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/17/nahj-rodner-figueroa_n_6885504.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000048 (via diasporadash)

  • moma: What does a media conservator do? MoMA’s Kate Lewis explains.  [Isaac Julien. Ten Thousand Waves. 2010]

  • creative-cap: Lynn Hershman Leeson has been probing the idea of what it means to be a cybernetic organism since the 1960s. This line of inquiry is laid bare in “Origins of the Species,” a solo exhibition of Hershman Leeson’s work that inaugurates Bridget Donahue’s new gallery space in New York.Continue reading > Read kerrydoran‘s review…

  • Scrum is a popular Agile process, so why not use its terminology? First, there are plain English words that already mean the same things. “Iteration” is a perfectly fine word and is actually closer to the intended meaning than “sprint.” Second, Scrum terminology directly contradicts the stated principles of Agile development. For example: Agile processes…

  • mrbigcheese: Mondrian Composition Business Edition