RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.

  • “A critical evaluation of conceptual art is complicated by the following paradox.”

    towerofsleep: ninaperlman: “…CONCEPTUAL ART ENTAILED A REVOLUTIONARY PROMISE (SUGGESTING A RADICAL DEMYSTIFICATION OF ARTISTHOOD) THAT HAS NEVER MATERIALIZED – SOMETHING THAT MANY CRITICS AND HISTORIANS WORKING ON CONCEPTUAL ART SEE AS AN UNMISTAKABLE FAILURE. CONCEPTUAL ART NEVER DELIVERED WHAT IT SEEMED TO PROMISE. HOW SHOULD WE RELATE THE MATERIAL SUCCESS OF CONCEPTUAL ART (AS A…

  • Guys on Reddit are very typically coming from STEM fields – a lot of engineers, a lot of programmers. I really think the complete lack of basic understanding of social justice on Reddit, the lack of understanding of how past oppression continues to exert force on the present, is reflective of a larger failure of…

  • becoming-wave: One of the most important ever life skills: learning how to strike a balance between being able to take criticism and being able to stand up for oneself, and in what cases which one is called for.

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  • jtotheizzoe: “Next week, while we’re all watching NBC, a nuclear-powered, MINI-Cooper-sized super rover will land on Mars. We accurately guided this monster from 200 million miles away (that’s 7.6 million marathons). It requires better accuracy than an Olympic golfer teeing off in London and hitting a hole-in-one in Auckland, New Zealand. It will use a…

  • Focus groups are designers and leadership abdicating responsibility. – Jonny Ive (h/t @thulme)

  • truefoes: truefoes: He wrote me that in the suburbs of Tokyo there is a temple consecrated to cats. I wish I could convey you the simplicity—the lack of affectation of this couple who had come to place an inscribed wooden slat in the cat cemetery so their cat Tora would be protected. No she wasn’t…