Category: words

  • 9. What are the biggest misconceptions [about critical design]? That it is negative and anti-everything. That it is only commentary and cannot change anything That it is jokey That it is not concerned with aesthetics That it is against mass-production That it is pessimistic That it is not real That it is art Dunne and…

  • Dr. Manhattan, Starstuff

    Dr. Manhattan doodle of the day. Starstuff. This one was drawn in Penultimate.

  • Perhaps because it is the first book published in what would become the United States. The so-called Bay Psalm Book was a project of extraordinary ambition, undertaken by the Puritans of Massachusetts not long after they crossed the Atlantic and began to live around Boston. At Cambridge, a printing press, brought over from England, began…

  • http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_–_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_–_november_16_2012.pdf

    http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_–_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_–_november_16_2012.pdf pdf. copyright reform ideas published by republicans, then retracted under pressure from lobbyists, if reports are accurate. h/t boingboing.

  • In the contemporary climate, every new generation of artists is faced with the task of originating new forms of work that fall outside the margins of established commodity. In other words, to create work that is uncommodifiable, though it will not remain so for long. This is the cycle, the dance, the lie at the…

  • claytoncubitt: “It’s an interesting feedback loop the robot creates: mechanically induced faults and artificial humanity create empathy in the subject which translates to that genuine emotion being captured by the robot in the sketch.” more traction for the drawing robot. @claytoncubitt amplifying @kottke.

  • Why yes, I am.

  • jessfink: emmyc: smalllindsay: CLICK HERE TO WATCH!!!! I am incredibly proud to present a project that I worked very hard on that has finally premiered on the internet! Over a year ago, back when I still worked at Hero4Hire Animation as the art director/lead design, I was given the reigns to direct a big project…

  • Recently, Penny Spikins proposed an alternative theory that proposes that the beauty of hand axes, combined with the expertise to make them, was a signal of trustworthiness, and a costly gesture of goodwill to others. Lower paleolithic hominids, which collaborated extensively, for instance in large game hunting, required reliable partners willing to go the extra…