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Change of all sorts (for instance in financing and contract management, in technology and in proportion of work that is now fit-out or refurbishment rather than new-build) has been dramatically transforming much of the building industry and its procedures. Yet these and the corresponding changes being faced by and within the architectural profession are quite…
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nevver: 365 Days of Hand Lettering
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The creative industry operates largely by holding ‘creative’ people ransom to their own self-image, precarious sense of self-worth, and fragile – if occasionally out of control ego. We tend to set ourselves impossibly high standards, and are invariably our own toughest critics. Satisfying our own lofty demands is usually a lot harder than appeasing any…
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dhrupad: Rudaali (1993) The title of this chapter is a play on Gayatri Spivaks’s famous query, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” The controversy and ambiguity that may have resulted from the rhetorical form in which her question was posed and the enormous ideological and philosophical charge involved in notions of speech, voice, and articulation are likely…
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slavin: not just in the NYT. It’s what makes TV shows on cable feel more convincing than their network counterpart: characters can speak like real people. obsessivecompulsive: zadie smith on interviewing jay-z for the nyt
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Diagram of the eyes and related nerves, manuscript illustration from Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) by Ibn al-Haytham, featured in Science in Medieval Islam by Howard R. Turner. more at source: touba:
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Udacity may or may not survive, but as with Napster, there’s no containing the story it tells: “It’s possible to educate a thousand people at a time, in a single class, all around the world, for free.” To a traditional academic, this sounds like crazy talk. more clay. more truth. » Napster, Udacity, and the…
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Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia
Call For Participation Extended: ISEA 2013 Symposium, Sydney, Australia ISEA (the International Symposium on Electronic Art) being held in Sydney from June 7th – 16th has an open call for participation – that has recently been extended to Friday, November 30th. There are numerous categories for participation ranging from “Provocations”, “Creator Sessions” and “Online Collaborations”…
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curiositycounts: At last! Someone debunking that the color “Flesh” is more than taupe. Brazilian-born artist Angelica Dass is on a mission to record and catalog all possible human skin tones in the world by matching it with the PANTONE coloring system. In her ongoing project called ‘Humanae’, Dass takes a series of portraits with the background color dyed to…
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bashford: “ZUSE doesn’t see itself merely as a compact toasting device but more like a print-maker of the traditional kind. Inspired by the early matrix printers, it now engages in burning black & white pictures with 12 by 12 pixel resolution into the toast by diligently marking line by line” Concept by INSEQ (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)