Category: words

  • imagine the blog: A SMARTER BRICK

    imagine the blog: A SMARTER BRICK imagineblog: While we are witnessing innovation in all fields of architecture, the good old brick seems to gain less attention and innovative application. Nowadays we sense the degradation of its glorious heritage towards the use of a cladding material only. There must be more in the field of bricks.…

  • Design Research Journal Assessment

    Design Research Report Posted on May 1, 2011 by Holly Willis Report to the [AIGA] Design Educators Community Steering Committee Design Research Journal Assessment Holly Willis May 12, 2011 Abstract This report synthesizes findings gathered during an informal study conducted to determine if there is a need and/or desire for AIGA to launch a new…

  • The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an inter-national, online, Open Access and peer-reviewed journal for the identification, publication and dissemination of artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. With the aim of displaying practice in a manner that respects artists’ modes of presentation, JAR abandons the traditional journal article format and offers…

  • Research Catalogue – an international database for artistic research

    Research Catalogue – an international database for artistic research ABOUT THE RESEARCH CATALOGUE The Research Catalogue (RC) is a searchable database for archiving artistic research. RC content is not peer reviewed, nor is it highly controlled for quality, being checked only for appropriateness. As a result, the RC is highly inclusive. The open source status…

  • nprfreshair: Folks. Important religious artifacts here. Beautiful Decay: After unknowingly purchasing fake pre-Colombian artifacts, artist Nadín Ospina gave serious thought to Latin-American culture and its ancient roots.  His sculptures depicts pop-culture cartoon characters such as Snoopy, Micky Mouse, and Bart Simpson in an often pre-Colombian style. We were in a show together in Denver’s Museo…

  • But Chipotle brings us exactly what innovators have always brought us. Not the very best product in the world, but the very best production process allowing for large-scale distrbution of a quality product. Mass produced clothing isn’t as good as tailor-made, but a world in which mass produced clothing is available is a much better…

  • synecdoche: i made a sim of myself and she died but often comes back as a ghost to use the computer because yeah, sounds about right

  • lbjlibrary: April 11, 1965.  LBJ signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, at the Junction School in Johnson City, TX.  Among the guests at the bill signing are Kate Deadrich Loney (LBJ’s first school teacher), Sen. Eugene McCarthy, and Adm. William Raborn, along with Lady Bird and Lynda.  “As a son of a tenant farmer,…

  • Follow-up from BKV: APPLE vs. SAGA #12 A follow-up to yesterday’s press release: I wanted to apologize to everyone for this entire SAGA #12 kerfuffle. Yesterday, I was mistakenly led to believe that this issue was solely with Apple, but it’s now clear that it was only ever Comixology too conservatively interpreting Apple’s rules. I’m…