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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…

  • 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…

  • Antonio Henrique Amaral | Alone in Green, 1973 | Artsy

    Antonio Henrique Amaral | Alone in Green, 1973 | Artsy

  • Amaral, Antonio Henrique (1935- ) – 1973 Alone in Green (by RasMarley)

  • albotas: Adobe Makes It Rain: Creative Suite Is Dead Being a freelance designer / editor / media person just got a little more expensive. Today, Adobe announced that they are discontinuing their Creative Suite series. There will be no CS6.5 and no CS7. Instead, their programs will only be available on Creative Cloud, which costs…

  • Google Drops G.P.A.s and Test Scores in Hiring

    goyalnikhil: The New York Times recently reported: “Google, not surprisingly, is committed to applying data-driven decision-making to human resource management. For years, candidates were screened according to SAT scores and college grade-point averages, metrics favored by its founders. But numbers and grades alone did not prove to spell success at Google and are no longer…

  • Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7

    Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7 fastcodesign: Many design firms buy the new Adobe Creative Suite whenever it comes out. After all, the software is a mainstay for anyone who creates on computers. But today, Adobe has announced that there will be no Creative Suite 7. That’s because the Creative Suite is giving…

  • brianlucid: Adobe announces first hardware, the Project Mighty smart stylus and Napoleon ruler. I am not fully sold on the usefulness of these at the iPad scale, but some of the interactions are quite nice. 

  • maniacalrage: I was all, “Fuck you, Adobe, I don’t want to use Creative Cloud just let me buy an upgrade!” but then I was like, “Wait, whaaaaaat! Finally, I can edit the corner radius of a rectangle path! Here’s my money, Adobe, Cloud me up good!” but suddenly I’s all like, “Hey you should have…

  • Adobe says it plans to focus all of its software development efforts on its Creative Cloud product from here on out. The Creative Suite (CS) is being rebranded to Creative Cloud (CC) as part of this shift. In other words, the Creative Suite line is coming to an end, and Creative Suite 6 will be…