Category: words

  • Just this. Thank you.

  • explore-blog: explore-blog: I had the pleasure of discussing the “Modulor” at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress; I expressed myself badly, I explained the “Modulor” badly, I got bogged down in the morass of “cause and effect”… At one point, Einstein…

  • 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.