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hangingfire: mckelvie: kierongillen: sexpigeon: Encourage your players to wear leather and mirrorshades. I did all this when paying cyberpunk as a teen. All of it. You didn’t really need the “when playing cyberpunk” in there, be honest. Oh look, it’s my senior year in high school.
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sexpigeon: To have sex. Also; to forget about something.
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studio630: Swiss Pavilion / Le Corbusier In 1930, Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a dormitory that would house Swiss students at the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. At first the architect and Pierre Jeanneret, his partner at the time, refused to take on the project due to tensions with the Swiss after their handling of…
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likeafieldmouse: Tom Phillips – A Humument (1966-73) “In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity…
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I can’t stop thinking about the class I’m teaching in the fall to the incoming grad students. This is a class I have taught every year since my arrival at DU, with a few exceptions. The constellation of ideas, readings, and projects keeps shifting in my head. This has been going on for a month.…
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explore-blog: explore-blog: The pattern underlying [the creative act] is the perceiving of a situation or idea, L, in two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference, M1 and M2. The event L, in which the two intersect, is made to vibrate simultaneously on two different wavelengths, as it were. While this unusual situation lasts, L…
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yourplasticbag: Laurie Grasping a Judd, 2013 ’°º°‘
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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are…
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louisespage: My rant at Design Studios and their Internships here in the UK.Seriously, I’ve seen so many offers of ‘we’ll pay for your lunch and travel expenses’, but, you know, we won’t pay you for the work you do.
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Why Are There So Few Lefties in China?
Why Are There So Few Lefties in China? jonnyskov: Okay, I’m not actually linking to this post because of the odd statistic that there seem to be fewer left-handed people in China than elsewhere. What I find interesting is the subtle prejudice against left-handedness that persists across the globe. Many people may not even be…