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bitch-media: The project that was Lowriders in Space began when author Cathy Camper started thinking about the need for more diverse books for kids. In 2005, Camper was working three part-time jobs, including a gig doing outreach at low-income housing for the local library. The kids who would show up to check out books were a multi-cultural…
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completely available on Skype of Slack at 7pm. Female Company President: “I am sorry to all the mothers I used to work with” (via iamdanw)
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How 3-sided football works There will be a match of 3-sided football played at DiGRA 2015! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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blech: Ian Besler: Along The Frontier Of Resolution (via stml) Like the manifestation of superstitions supposedly held by nervous sailors in stories of early global sea exploration, we eventually come upon an unsettling and disorienting digital edge while exploring Google Earth. This boundary is common to most Google cities. Google Earth’s indifference to existing political and…
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Let’s say that talent is real.
terribleminds: … Okay. Let’s say that talent is real. We must also assume then that talent will mean nothing without work. It is a dead, inert thing unless you do something with it. It’s still a thing that must be seized, must be trained, and you still have to level up your game every chance…
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terribleminds: … Okay. Let’s say that talent is real. We must also assume then that talent will mean nothing without work. It is a dead, inert thing unless you do something with it. It’s still a thing that must be seized, must be trained, and you still have to level up your game every chance…
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I had a hard time [writing] at first, and then much less of a hard time. I started writing quite a bit. I wanted to write a self-help book — From Writer’s Block to Graphomania in Two Easy Weeks… [W]hen I stopped thinking about whether it was good or bad, and I just started doing…
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Books were once expensive. In Samuel Johnson’s day, just one cost as much as a labourer’s entire weekly pay of nine shillings; while the modern equivalent, $600, buys about seventy-five non-fiction paperbacks averaging seven dollars each. Yet, not only because there were fewer pastimes did people sacrifice to buy books: There was a thirst. Throughout…
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hyperallergic: Transactions in the art world tend towards the material: historically, collectors have exchanged their cash or patronage for physical artworks. But a new project from Sarah Meyohas and the Brooklyn-based Where gallery explores the future of art in a world where both art and the market are increasingly immaterial. READ MORE