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laphamsquarterly: theatlantic: Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650 In 1650, St. Michael’s Alley, London’s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad — archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the Vintage Ads LiveJournal — extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which “groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts…
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Caligraft
Caligraft notational: A portfolio of typographic experiments using Processing by Ricard Marxer Piñón . Includes source codes.
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We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Similar to…
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More artists are creating careers on their own terms, either by choice or necessity. Many are choosing to create a DIY (do it yourself) or DIT (do it together) ways of operating. I wish more programs on the business of art would include these ways of thinking in their offerings. Failure or success is never…
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christopherhiggs: “I will not make any more boring Art” by John Baldessari In 1971, Baldessari was commissioned by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to create an original, on-site work. Unable to make the journey himself, he suggested that the students voluntarily write the phrase “I will not make any more…
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» Thoughts for an Internet of Things education
» Thoughts for an Internet of Things education iamdanw: This
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prostheticknowledge: 90º – Typography Book Handmade book by Iwona Przybyla features typographic alphabet with letters presented in 3D using thread and stitching: Kąt 90 stopni (90 degrees) is a book presenting a font style bearing the same name, designed in such a way that each of its letters can be displayed in a three-dimensional space.…
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Cracking the Agrippa Code
Cracking the Agrippa Code nodalpoint: n 1992 cyberpunk author William Gibson wrote a short poem called Agrippa (a book of the dead) that tells about memory, loss, nature and mechanism, all framed by a Kodak photo album. The poem was bundled into a Mac System 7 application and included on a 3.5” diskette in the back of…
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neil-gaiman: A few weeks ago in London, Amanda showed me this video in email. She’d just got it from filmmaker Jim Batt. I watched it with the artist Judith Clute. When it finished, we made Amanda show it to us again, and then again. We laughed and gasped in the same places each time. I…