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mikkipedia: “Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting) Hm. I have mixed feelings about how empathy functions, or how…
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newyorker: Cartoon of the day by Emily Flake. For more cartoons: http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons
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underpaidgenius: Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR I read this piece waiting for the obvious and didn’t hear a whisper of it. Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR The view is bleak from John Larsala’s front drive in West Phoenix. The…
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jtotheizzoe: Help The Oatmeal raise money to buy Nikola Tesla’s old laboratory and turn it into a museum. Can you think of a better place to throw a few dollars? Didn’t think so.
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pri-arts: untitled-mag: Marina Abramovic, “The Artist is Present,” made people hate their snuggies Hilarious. If it makes you curious about Abramovic’s “The Artist if Present,” we have info here.
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museumoflatinamericanart: Joaquín Torres García (Uruguay, 1874-1949) Composición constructiva 1934 Ink on paper Gift of Jorge Virgili in memory of his brother Salvador and all those who have suffered from AIDS M.2010.031
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My son asked me today if the font Chipotle uses in its mark is Gotham. I said, “I don’t think so – the middle crossbar on the capital E is too low”, and then I told him I was the TA for a class wherein Tobias Frere-Jones, designer of Gotham, studied. I got an appreciative…
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edelman8095: Ex-Google executive’s new venture helps students avoid corporate life | Reuters nanotrends: “Part social network, part crowdfunding service in the style of Kickstarter, Upstart provides an online forum where participants post personal profiles with their background and goals in the hope of attracting at least five financial backers. The backers – acquaintances, alumni or…
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imageobjecttext: “Unfortunately, these concepts are ill prepared for the fluid media objects of our real-time era. Such analysis will by default favor visual representations (because this is what these schilars with their film, television, or art history backgrounds are trained to analyze) but neglect social and interactive dynamics. Do we truly expect to find exciting…
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Screen-optimized fonts “look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro.”
cameronmoll: John Gruber: Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro — sometimes downright cheesy — in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine. Great fonts, intricately designed for high-resolution output, aren’t just allowed, they are necessary for a design that truly sings on this display. In…