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“But by the early 1970s a shift was under way. ‘Computing went from being dismissed as a tool of bureaucratic control to being embraced as a symbol of personal expression and liberation,’ John Markoff wrote in his study of the counterculure’s convergence with the computer industry, What The Dormouse Said. It was an ethos lyrically…
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I find that, picking up one of the rubber phone props, the texture arrests me somewhat and I’m suddenly conscious of the physical object in my hand. Instead of the mobile being an almost invisible conduit for the flow of communications, something I speak and hear through, I’m now aware of it as a device…
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stoweboyd: Adobe’s Mighty and Napoleon – digital drawing devices that are ready-to-hand instead of purely present-to-hand (Heidigger’s terms: see Matt Webb’s discussion). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Disney Wants To Trademark ‘Dia De Los Muertos’
Disney Wants To Trademark ‘Dia De Los Muertos’ latinagabi: miss-cheif: reclaimingthelatinatag: latinagabi: mocosyamores: On May 1, Disney filed trademark applications to secure ‘Dia de los Muertos’ across multiple platforms for an upcoming Pixar film. COLONIALISM FUCKERS, IT’S STILL FUCKING REAL ARE YOU SHITTING ME I WILL SLAY YOU DISNEY, YOU AND ALL YOUR RACIST COLONIAL…
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If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path. Alec Soth on creating a career in photography, and how he pays the rent today. Read our full interview here. (via americanphoto)
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sinidentidades: elblogcanalla: Yo quiero educarme, no endeudarme Pasto, Colombia Photo by @Kachearen I want to be educated not indebted.
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kadrey: RIP Ray Harryhausen. cinephilearchive: Remembering Ray Harryhausen, 1920 — 2013 Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the UK’s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as being the man whose work inspired their own creations. “Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry. The art…
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RIP Adobe
RIP Adobe claytoncubitt: “Up to now, customers had perpetual access by paying a single fee for Adobe’s Creative Suite. From next month, continuing access to the programs, either individually or as a whole, will demand a monthly fee.” See also.
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Ownership might be getting replaced with membership, or revised to mean membership. In the not-distant future, maybe we’ll belong to dozens of “exchange communities” or bartering networks of varying levels of exclusivity. The largest barter network in the Maryland-DC area, Barter Systems Inc., has over 1400 members. Members can barter a mailing list management service…
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Following the 1968 military coup in Brazil, many artists left that country for New York. Antonio Henrique Amaral, who arrived in 1973, become one of the most successful of those artists, both critically and commercially, earning fame with his iconic images of bananas. Critics have read Alone in Green, with its overripe, tied, and bruised…