Category: words

  • The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library… Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry (1977) (via bookporn, bookpornographist) (via ebookporn) (via teachingliteracy) (via kenyatta) (via elmerseason)

  • CNN Shutters CNN Latino – TVNewser

    CNN Shutters CNN Latino – TVNewser fylatinamericanhistory: CNN is shutting down CNN Latino just a year after its launch. The eight-hour syndicated news and entertainment block will shutter later this month, Media Moves reports. “CNN Latino was a bold effort to continue CNN’s commitment to the U.S. Hispanic marketplace.  Unfortunately, despite the great efforts of many talented…

  • brianandgj: Setting up test prints of packets that will be given out to the players. The packets are sealed envelopes cut in half, which can neatly carry game currency. You can see here earlier versions of the rules. Distributing game currency in packets that have the game’s rules saves time during setup and when adding…

  • Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.  J. G. Ballard (via berfrois)

  • josephdenne: This radio journalist learnt how to structure his stories by sketching the models used by other shows Bradley Campbell says drawing story structure is like using Google Maps for directions. Structure offers a path, a way to figure out where to go… what to do with all the tape. To help him plan out…

  • krbee: Hélio Oiticica, “Metaesquema” (1958). Tropicália!

  • prostheticknowledge: WINNING Game art project by Alex Myers reduces the FPS to it’s basic principle, shoot and kill, by placing armed players in a small intimate space – video embedded below: Build a small room. Arm two players. Let them kill each other. Over and over and over and over and over. Call it “Winning.”…

  • azspot: “Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man person for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. To be able to do this a man person must have learned to learn. He She must be conscious of how much there is still…

  • prostheticknowledge: METEOR BLOCKS Simple collaborative voxel editor by Sashko Stubailo lets you create and remix scenes made of blocks for fun. Each scene has it’s unique URL, so anyone with this link can edit the scene as well: The friendliest collaborative 3D pixel editor! Meteor Blocks uses the Meteor web framework and X3DOM together to…

  • fullergoeasy: I #like this picture.