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dobooks: Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming Anthony Dunne Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means…
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ryanpanos: The Library of Babel | Rice+Lipka Architects | Via “The Library of Babel” is a terrifying and beautiful story by prophetic Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, written when he was employed shelving books in the city library. First published in a shorter version as “The Total Library,” this dense, nine-page story concerns a library that…
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Anyone who really wants to learn without school has to find other people to learn with and from. That’s the open secret of learning outside of school. It’s a social act. Learning is something we do together. Independent learners are interdependent learners. Kio Stark (via azspot)
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As for the “cyberpunk” part, forget about “the movies.” Abstract motion-graphics coded in Processing and posted on Vimeo, that’s “cyberpunk.” You don’t wanna make movies that are about guys with computers. You want to use digital composition to seize control of the means of producing cinema. And then do it all yourself! That’s “punk.” Hollywood…
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As for the “cyberpunk” part, forget about “the movies.” Abstract motion-graphics coded in Processing and posted on Vimeo, that’s “cyberpunk.” You don’t wanna make movies that are about guys with computers. You want to use digital composition to seize control of the means of producing cinema. And then do it all yourself! That’s “punk.” Hollywood…
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vastandgrand: Lou Reed singing “Blue Christmas” at The Knitting Factory with Laurie Andersen, Rufus Wainwright and others. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Well, look at it this way. The year 2014 is the centenary of World War One. When you hang out in Europe like I do, you stumble over the rubble of World War One, quite a lot. Humanity was in a truly dreadful place, one hundred years ago. The world situation of humanity was truly…
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tumblr_my0oan2d8J1qejx74 fred-wilson: “it was December 24th …….” astroslugs: the only acceptable Christmas song.
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crookedindifference: Forty-Fifth Anniversary of Iconic ‘Earthrise’ Image Forty-five years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on Dec. 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and…
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shelfie, thinking of my cousins. (at casa)