Category: words

  • But since every page on the web is now as accessible as every other page, how do you connect writers together with paper and staples, instead of having readers pick individual writers or pieces and ignore the rest? And the connection between writers and photographers and editors is what a magazine is. It defines it…

  • Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute.

    Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute. Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute. One of the ODI’s goals is to showcase the possibilities of open data and we aim to highlight the wide-ranging potential for this emerging field. Proposals are sought for all forms…

  • Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute.

    Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute. Data-Driven Art proposals invited for by Tim Berners-Lee’s new Open Data Institute. One of the ODI’s goals is to showcase the possibilities of open data and we aim to highlight the wide-ranging potential for this emerging field. Proposals are sought for all forms…

  • pacegallery: Chuck Close’s exhibit, opening tomorrow at Pace, will include the first presentation of his newest experiment with technology: watercolor prints. “Invention,” Robert Storr writes, “plays a pivotal part in the fundamental dynamics of Close’s work but not in the sense of contriving an unprecedented pictorial or conceptual model. Instead his pragmatism or, better said, innovative…

  • pacegallery: Chuck Close’s exhibit, opening tomorrow at Pace, will include the first presentation of his newest experiment with technology: watercolor prints. “Invention,” Robert Storr writes, “plays a pivotal part in the fundamental dynamics of Close’s work but not in the sense of contriving an unprecedented pictorial or conceptual model. Instead his pragmatism or, better said, innovative…

  • thisistheverge: $41 million can’t buy success as Color app finally gives up Color Labs, the San Francisco based company that received $41 million in venture capital last year to build a photo-sharing app, will soon shut its doors, according to VentureBeat. “The company’s shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down,” the…

  • thisistheverge: $41 million can’t buy success as Color app finally gives up Color Labs, the San Francisco based company that received $41 million in venture capital last year to build a photo-sharing app, will soon shut its doors, according to VentureBeat. “The company’s shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down,” the…

  • Haiti’s small, black, Creole pigs were at the heart of the peasant economy. An extremely hearty breed, well adapted to Haiti’s climate and conditions, they ate readily-available waste products, and could survive for three days without food. Eighty to 85% of rural households raised pigs; they played a key role in maintaining the fertility of…