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artlistpro: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would…
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underpaidgenius: El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen I came with the rising sun and I’ve broughtnothing but two eyes, all I have,simply two eyes, for the harvestof grief that’s hidden in this junglelike the coffee shrubs. Fewer,but they fling themselves upwards, untouchable,are the trees that invidiously shut outthe light from this overwhelming indigence.With my machete I…
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becoming-wave: nerdyninjanicole: Even though she grew up playing football, shooting hoops and running races against all the boys in her neighborhood, U.S. 800-meter champion Alysia Montano never wanted to be thought of as one of them. As a result, she started wearing a flower behind her right ear to remind the boys they were getting…
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hangingfire: Carl Sagan’s message to Mars, recorded a few months before he died. Transcript via io9. Hi, I’m Carl Sagan. This is a place where I often work in Ithaca, New York near Cornell University. Maybe you can hear, in the background, a 200-foot waterfall right nearby, which is probably — I would guess —…
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ruineshumaines: Art Game by Leo Caillard. On Tumblr. “This recent work is a reflection on the problem of our new digital world.Currently, at any stage of its creation, any idea or concept is digitally adapted.What will be retained in the future? What will happen to all of these billions of megabytes we stock on computers?…
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it is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. we should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. art only has…
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Adobe has come a long way since its early days in which the specification for the PostScript Type 1 font format was a closely-guarded trade secret leading up to the “font wars.” Since this specification was begrudgingly published in 1990, Adobe has been more proactive in publicly releasing tools for developing and producing high-quality type.…
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I wanted to see the Sol Lewitt conceptual art work at MIT, which is a set of instructions for the floor of a courtyard. The exit/entrance to the courtyard, however, is behind a locked door, and so this is as much as I was able to see and record.