Category: words

  • kateoplis: NYT to Sofia Coppola: “critics often say your films are ‘too aesthetic.’ But you tell stories visually. Music plays a big role, and there’s not a lot of talking. Anjelica Huston: My favorite kind of movie. I want to work for you. Sofia: Sometimes, people think aesthetics are superficial. But I think they can be…

  • claudiablacks: you don’t create  n e w  w o r l d s to give them       all the same l i m i t s  as the old ones

  • Are we in a world where app developers and consumers view apps like games or TV shows? That is, something you might only expect to use for a few months? And in this world, how do you differentiate fads from trends? Apps in a world of abundance | USV Conversations (via soxiam)

  • Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it wasn’t for race, X-Men doesn’t make sense. If it wasn’t for the history of breeding human beings in the New…

  • brucesterling: *When they say “elegant,” they don’t mean aesthetically attractive, because they’re engineers and yet it is an aesthetic.

  • anthonyburrill: “WORK HARD & BE COOL WITH THE PEOPLE” Wood type letterpress poster printed by Grafica Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)

  • profeminist: Women of Color Working in STEM Fields Are Frequently Mistaken for Janitors  Almost half of Black and Latina women working as scientists have been mistaken for a janitor or administrator their offices, reveals a new report on the experiences of women of color working in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. “As one…

  • glitchinc: Son of postmodern mancredit: original painting by Rene Magritte.

  • Art dealers, curators and critics still cling to the idea that what constitutes today’s art with a capital “A” must be totally new and groundbreaking—but only to art history. Whatever the initial merits of this experiment, more than 60 years after the true game-changer of Abstract Expressionism (if only to use the U.S. as an…

  • savedbythe-bellhooks: SIDESHOW: Sometimes there are other ideas that I think would be awesome. So think of these as guest blog entries from other sections of my brain. This is from a Tumblr that doesn’t exist called Cornel West Wing. All quotes are by Dr. Cornel West, activist and academic.  The idea for this blog was…