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(via Ken Ilgunas)
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To take off to northern lands on the eve of winter with a purple toe and no trail to follow or guidebook to consult would be, to most rational thinkers, insane. Yet since everything about the Tar Sands and the XL and America’s contempt for the reality of climate change struck me as insane, too,…
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Rafael Fajardo Rafael Fajardo (°1965, Neiva, Colombia) creates media artworks and conceptual artworks. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, Fajardo creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and…
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racialicious: Parks and Recreations’ Aziz Ansari shuts down a microaggression on the Golden Globes’ red carpet. (H/t yayponies)
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new-aesthetic: “Learning English is important, not only because it is the international language, but because its the language of machines #codeisculture” — Twitter / laurenthaug my immigrant parents intuited this. learn english: check. learn Basic: check. learn Fortran: check. learn Pascal: check. learn visual read-write environments: check. learn Quartz Composer: check. learn Processing: in progress.
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via @stoweboyd: ““Every time I type a web address into my browser, I don’t need to be taken to a fully immersive, cross-platform, interactive viewing experience,” said San Diego office manager Keith Boscone. “I don’t want to take a moment to provide my feedback, open a free account, become part of a growing online community,…
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our global game jam location is now at capacity #ggj_DU #ggj2013
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thisistheverge: America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County…
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likeafieldmouse: Peter Trevelyan – Tenuous (2012) – Pencil lead and glue “Geometric structures meticulously crafted from graphite pencil leads. Trevelyan builds them gradually with great patience and precision. He fuses the delicate pencil leads together into triangles which become the basic unit of the structure; the whole surface is made up of hundreds of triangles. Trevelyan…
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While I was buried in the immigrant mud, I was visiting Alluvia. This Avatar of Alluvia was a live architectural model, spatially identical to the genuine, physical city of Alluvia. The map of the city and the real territory of the city were entirely co-existent. Because of geolocative spatial computing, they were one and the…