Category: words

  • blakegopnik: DAILY PIC:  In this week’s Newsweek – in the iPad and International editions only – I write (and speak, on video) about Roy Lichtenstein’s career-spanning survey at the Art Institute of Chicago. I try to pull away from our usual concentration on the “fun” of his comic-book and pop-culture references, and emphasize his interest…

  • It is in vain that it rests in the museum and gets added to the cultural heritage. For some, it has not stopped being the harbinger of the happy day when art will finally fall from its pedestal and belong to everyone; for others, it remains the source of resentment and fear of the day…

  • emergentfutures: How IBM Is Watching How You Shop Online Where they gather that data is the IBM Benchmark. It’s a cloud-based digital analytics platform that soaks up digital information about how consumers respond to different ways of selling things online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long, from 500 different online…

  • alecshao: Late Bloomers of the Arts For all of you who’ve felt even for a second that it’s ever too late:  1. Charles Bukowski had his first book published when he was 49 2. Leonard Cohen was 33 when his first album was released 3. Marina Abramovic’s career as an independent artist wasn’t solidified until…

  • laureola: If you experience rejection today, Look at this. (via untitled-mag)

  • For the Artists – why we create

    rhaben: Why we create sentimental but not wrong.

  • Teaching teaching: it motivates learners to learn

    shrinkrants: carlosesoto: It was in my work in the United States that I started thinking about having younger students study education. I saw that as students moved from primary to secondary school, education started more and more to become something that happens to them. In graduate school, I read Angela Valenzuela’s “Subtractive Schooling.” In her…

  • A Moving Story That Will Make You Give Thanks for Arts in Public School – Andrew Cohen – The Atlantic

    A Moving Story That Will Make You Give Thanks for Arts in Public School – Andrew Cohen – The Atlantic to read/watch…

  • blerchin: “A debate about art and science – the session was called “Laboratory of Risk” and so I talk about Puddle Drive-Through Simulation and Open Out of Body Experience from the perspective of risk-taking. This is in Wroclaw at the European Culture Congress 2011. ” (via Mateusz Herczka) on my to watch later queue (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • fyprocessing: cellular automata -0.1+0.012*i (by Matthew Conroy) Each pixel has a value between 0 and 1. At each iteration, each pixel’s value is replaced by a value given by a linear function of the values of the 24 adjacent and next-adjacent pixels, sorted so that the result is non-directional. With 24 coefficients, there are a…