Category: words

  • From Cotton To Shirt, In 4 Gifs

    From Cotton To Shirt, In 4 Gifs seedtoshirt: After months of reporting and thousands of miles of travel, our T-shirt project is live. Check it out: planetmoney.com/shirt. Thanks to everyone who ordered a shirt and followed us along the way. Please accept these four gifs as a small token of our gratitude.

  • lutsanguisargilla: No matter how distant, or remote in time.

  • seancinneide: Annika Vrklan, 8 year old pro skateboarder.

  • thingsmagazine: The Iron Man, A Story in Five Nights from which came The Iron Giant screenplay and film.

  • The Future of the Book As someone who made the leap from print to electronic publishing over thirty years ago people often ask me to expound on the “future of the book.” Frankly, I can’t stand the question, especially when asked simplistically. For starters it needs more specificity. Are we talking 2 years, 10 years…

  • Autonomy is a tricky term to handle because in the field of art it has come to denote almost the opposite of what it set out to name. Literally, auto / nomos means to determine one’s own laws. When art slowly but surely pried open a new social space for itself in nineteenth-century European society,…

  • When an artist uses a multiple modular method he usually chooses a simple and readily available form. The form itself is of very limited importance; it becomes the grammar for the total work. In fact, it is best that the basic unit be deliberately uninteresting so that it may more easily become an intrinsic part…

  • karaj: kathy acker, don quixote 

  • Code Drawing 24b. Selected states 1, 20, and 48. This one has 9 sprites that tend to move in eccentric counter-clockwise spirals. They all share the same encoded parameters to express their movement. They are all programmed to react to a collision with one another by rotating by 15 degrees. An unexpected outcome is that…

  • parabola-magazine: “There are moments in our lives that stand still in time while all the frantic hours and years surrounding them have blurred into an obscurity of grayness. One such moment remains vivid in my mind after more than thirty years, a luminescent spot of time, as clear as if it had happened only yesterday.…