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penamerican: How the priceless manuscripts in Timbuktu were saved from destruction “Abba al-Hadi could not read any of the priceless manuscripts he gingerly placed into empty rice sacks each evening last August before spiriting them through Timbuktu’s darkening streets. The wiry septuagenarian had never learned to read or write but, having spent four decades working…
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Architecture is said to be the art of the articulation of spaces. And geometry is the architect’s basic tool, but it is not the architect’s system of communication. That system is the defining of object in the surrounding space. Articulation is the geometry of form and space. Neil Leach, Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory…
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How Narrative therapists conceptualize identity
shrinkrants: shrinkrants: Narrative therapists view identity as relational, distributed, performed, and fluid. By relational, we mean that our stories of who we have been and who we can be wouldn’t exist outside of our relationships with other people; they are shaped by our experiences with others and our sense of how they perceive us. By distributed, we mean that the…
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Nueces En Texas: How To Roast Pecans | Adán’s blog
Nueces En Texas: How To Roast Pecans | Adán’s blog
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At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best selling novel, pointing out all its flaws and jagged edges. I listened for a long time, nodding. “All those things are true,” I said. And gave him the C.C. Finlay quote. “But until you learn what the good parts…
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nevver: It’s okay if you don’t get it I shop, therefore I am
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Pixel Press is an early stage project that is launching a Kickstarter on Tuesday, May 7th (via Draw Your Own Video Game | Pixel Press)
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Jim Crow — Northern or Southern — is usually rendered to us as an archaic system in which people irrationally decide to separate from each other just based on skin color. There’s a reason that so many of us remember Martin Luther King’s line about little white boys and little black boys holding hands. It’s…
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Here are some thoughts on vision. There is not much to the act of developing a project. The important part of a creative endeavor begins with an act of concentrated seeing, focused looking. Creativity will not flow from intellectual manipulations. Even less promising is the development of a project based on a concept one has…
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ONE MAN’S ART IS ANOTHER MAN’S GAME Video games are known for interactive play and, at times, educational purposes. Gamers may not think of them as art, but they are increasingly being considered an artistic medium. Associate Professor Rafael Fajardo, who teaches design in emergent digital practices, calls the creation of video games “a complex,…