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Making, gender, and doing
mostlysignssomeportents: Deb Chacra, a brilliant engineer, teacher and thinker, explains why she doesn’t identify as a “maker” — because when we elevate “makers” over maintainers, carers, and do-ers, we carry on the tradition of elevating traditionally male work over traditionally female work. Read the rest…
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dobooks: Disobedient Objects Catherine Flood From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. Included are items from protest movements over the past three decades from around the globe: papier-mâché and cardboard puppets made by the…
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freddymerken: Señor de verdad.
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dobooks: Fully Booked – Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications Young designers and publishers are ringing in a new era for printed books—one that is likely to be the most exciting in their entire history. Digital media are disappointing for books. All books look the same on an iPad, for example. On…
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futurescope: Drone carrying three kilos of meth crashed in Tijuana A small drone carrying approximately three kilos of crystal meth crashed in a Tijuana parking lot less than a mile from the border with San Diego on Tuesday night, police said. [via vice news]
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Formalism: Once More With Feeling
Formalism: Once More With Feeling dropouthangoutspaceout: So discourse being what it is, we (and by “we” I mean a subset of game studies academics, game designers and critics) have somehow found ourselves back discussing the merits or pitfalls of formalism, alongside the creation of the (what I think is misguided) concept of “ludoessentialism”. I…
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stoweboyd: nowthisnews: A drone carrying six pounds of meth crashed in Mexico near the border which may mean drug cartels are using them for long distance dealing. Jamais Cascio says that if you want to think about how some new technology is going to be used, find out what criminals are doing with it. (Source:…
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via larmoyante)
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tarkovskymalick: Beginning-Middle-End: Stalker Director: Andrei Tarkovsky “It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world.”
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mylistofthangs: The Veiling, Bill Viola. Images of a man& a woman moving through a series of nocturnal landscapes are projected into parallel layers of loosely suspended translucent cloth. They each appear on separate opposing video channels, and are seen gradually moving from dark areas of shadow into areas of bright light. The cloth material diffuses the…