Category: words

  • hyperallergic: On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers about the financial realities facing artists will convene in the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world: the artist as debtor. Organized by artists Noah Fischer and Coco Fusco, the one-day gathering will bring together people like Andrew Ross, the…

  • How I draw faces

    castiel-is-the-fallen-angel: swordcane: andlatitude: 1) circle with lines 2) face, head, neck 3) nose 4) eyes, mouth, eyebrows 5) haaaiiir 6) everything else thnx 4 help Steph I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING

  • npr: skunkbear: The top image is a photograph of a lush rainforest canopy. The bottom image colors each tree based on its species. How? It’s all thanks to a special lab built by ecologist Greg Asner inside a twin-turboprop airplane. From a few thousand feet up, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory uses lasers, spectrometers and other instruments…

  • dbreunig: Experts over time.

  • Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

    Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end on my To Read list

  • In anticipation of fall course schedules, several people have asked what I think someone who wants to be a journalist should study. A few years ago I realized my favourite answer — not journalism — was depressing for someone who had already reserved a seat for himself or his child at one of Canada’s more…

  • Very clearly, a group of people are completely disenfranchised with the direction games are going in, and they don’t know who to blame so they blame anyone who has any sort of say in the industry – but not the people they like. The developers who are still making the games they appreciate – they’re…

  • Blank Arcade returns after its successful 2014 edition in Salt Lake City, Utah. Blank Arcade: Games out of Joint is more than just a sequel, mod or expansion pack. It revisits its own concept through an exhibition of experimental games and artworks that push the boundaries of game design and theory. The curators invite artists,…

  • “Governor,” a reporter asked, “what is an intellectual luxury?” Reagan described a four-credit course at the University of California at Davis on organizing demonstrations. “I figure that carrying a picket sign is sort of like, oh, a lot of things you pick up naturally,” he said, “like learning how to swim by falling off the…

  • The subjective thinker is not a scientist-scholar; he is an artist. To exist is an art. The subjective thinker is aesthetic enough for his life to have aesthetic content, ethical enough to regulate it, dialectical enough in thinking to master it. From Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments by Søren Kierkegaard (via kierkegaarddane)