Category: words

  • porpentine: my interview with the NYTimes is out woot!

  • micdotcom: Intense photos put Mexico’s growing crisis into vivid perspective Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Mexico City on Thursday in one of the largest shows to date of public indignation over government corruption and the disappearance of 43 college students from the southern city of Iguala. Demonstrators marched towards President Enrique…

  • escapekit: Ceramic objects Artist by Matthew Chambers, for the last 8 years has been working from a 215 square foot studio in Newport on the Isle of Wight where he creates each piece without the aid of sketches or designs, preferring to experiment as he works. Each “layer” is an individual section thrown on a potter’s wheel…

  • patriciaalvarado: Deconstructing racism!!! Understanding complexities!!! (2014) In this work, I deconstruct a seemingly innocent anonymous question I received asking “Where are you from bc your skin color is like different, I love it!” to speak to the complexities and pervasiveness of racism. I’m interested in revealing how deeply rooted racism is. I want to speak…

  • wolfliving: *This is so next-level. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • my colleague Tim Weaver is headed to Peru to speak about his art and biomedia. thebrainscoop: From In Search of Night Life – deep in the Peruvian forests, adventures in the dark.  You guys, I went to the jungle. 

  • cavetocanvas: Friendship – Agnes Martin, 1963 From MoMA’s website: A grid connotes regulation and regularity, and therefore the human hand: natural forms as uniform as these patterns of evenly spaced horizontal and vertical straight lines are seldom visible to the unaided eye. In Friendship and other works, however, Martin draws a grid that somehow both softens the…

  • What Consumers Want — and Don’t Want — From the Internet of Things (Infographic) Carly Okyle Entrepreneur Staff Editorial Assistant, entrepreneur.com Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren’t trying to connect…

  • dezeen: A waiting room inside a shipping container »

  • nprplays: From Weekend Edition Saturday: Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope “You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,” Kathleen de Vere says, “and then you do it again.” This rotten game was created in the mid-’90s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games.…