RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • brianlucid: iKern theory: thoughts from someone who kerns type for a living…

  • HAUTE POP: What Not To Wear: Academic Edition

    HAUTE POP: What Not To Wear: Academic Edition hautepop: An interesting discussion over at The Thesis Whisperer about acceptable academic dress. One comment stood out: I’m in a Fine Art department in the UK and we operate a fascinating double game. The unspoken rule is: the artier the clothes, the worse the work. Therefore, nothing…

  • Terminology: the Forms and the forms The English word “form” may be used to translate two distinct concepts that concerned Plato—the outward “form” or appearance of something, and “Form” in a new, technical nature, that never …assumes a form like that of any of the things which enter into her; … But the forms which…

  • Spur – A fun and easy way to critique a webpage.

    Spur – A fun and easy way to critique a webpage.

  • Instant Art Critique Generator

    Instant Art Critique Generator ckck: A great companion to the previous Artist Statement generator.

  • What is criticism? Karl Marx had a pretty good idea. On a perfect day in a perfect world, he wrote, a happy citizen might ‘hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening’ and, finally and best of all, ‘criticize after dinner,’ perhaps with a bottle of wine on the table.…

  • dwineman: seoulbrother: I guess I don’t know how this works. For example: how do you determine where the 8-circles go. Oh, I see, three of them rest on each other at the top. But what about the 8 that intersects with the other 8 to form the leaf? What’s going on there? It looks like…

  • mikkipedia: mikkipedia: Narcissists are (a) extremely sensitive to personal…

    mikkipedia: mikkipedia: Narcissists are (a) extremely sensitive to personal… mikkipedia: Narcissists are (a) extremely sensitive to personal criticism and (b) extremely critical of other people. They think that they must be seen as perfect or superior or infallible, next to god-like (if not actually divine, then sitting on the right hand of God) — or…

  • my archive homework: Basic Principles of Design by Manfred Maier, of the Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel Switzerland, 1975.

  • cartesian coordinate system, raster, pixel (first day of class)