RafaelFajardo

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  • ransomcenter: “Unassembled model of Bel Geddes’s Prefabricated House,” ca. 1941—42. Photograph by unidentified photographer. Image courtesy of the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. Read the full article “In The Galleries: Bel Geddes’s Modular Homes” on the Harry Ransom Center’s blog Cultural Compass.

  • good: That $4 Billion George Lucas Is Getting From Disney? He’s Giving it to Education – by Liz Dwyer With the news that George Lucas is selling Lucasfilm to Disney for a reported $4.05 billion, there’s been plenty of speculation over who will write and direct Star Wars: Episode VII and what Lucas, who owns 100…

  • JF: But do you want to touch people who will say, “I’ve felt that too”? SA: Yeah, but the thing is, people always told me their story. They didn’t say, ‘This made me feel like 100 other people.’ The creation is specific and the response is specific. Good art is specific. Godzilla is universal. A…

  • calvinandhobbes-daily: November 01, 1990

  • If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein (via underpaidgenius) I hope he really said this. My wife never understands why I start from the absurd, or why I go quickly to the absurd. There is very productive, fruitful terrain for creative ideas in the absurd.…

  • Dr. Manhattan takes a walk on Titan

    “Dr. Manhattan takes a walk on Titan”, Made with Paper by Rafael Fajardo, 2012.11.01.

  • artlistpro: This morning on Modern Art Notes, I detail a key part of the relationship between Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. Still famously claimed that Newman stole his “line of force,” the compositionally dominant vertical that Newman called the “zip” and claimed as his own.  So how did the line of force or the zip…

  • Why I will not draw your comic for free

    faitherinhicks: Sorry tumblrs, I didn’t know you couldn’t reblog questions, and also it’s probably mean of me, exposing that girl’s question like that. So here’s the whole blog post in reblogging format.  Long story short, someone (politely) inquired if I would do character design for them, and then draw their comic. No mention of payment.…

  • Kern and Burn | A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship

    Kern and Burn | A Publication About Design Entrepreneurship

  • an open letter in response to amy, re: musicians, volunteering, and the freedom to choose.

    amandapalmer: Cross-posted from my blog. _________________ hola comrades! i am so happy that many of you are deeply loving the record, the response has been absolutely out of control….just amazing.glad that everyone’s getting their kickstarter stuff. more on that later. for now…. this is my response to a letter that was posted a few days…