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But Harmon’s management style is not the only factor (or even, perhaps, the main one). Community has never gotten great ratings, and Harmon has reportedly resisted requests from both NBC and Sony to give the show a broader appeal. Of course, this may also help explain its consistent inventiveness and its wild ambition. Many fans…
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notational: Ackoff Pyramid. Another foundational diagram as has to do with data and info. I think that I am most interested, in a personal sense, with “Insight and Understanding”. It seems to me that too much of the knowledge that I use and think about is “received knowledge” and it might be useful to dive…
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For many years, I have told students, “Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.” My hope is that colleges and universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will…
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MB: Oh I agree, believe me. Not only do I revile the victimhood, I totally help myself to the privilege when I need to. For instance, when I were a lad I used to work in law offices in downtown LA and there are a lot of Spanish-only-speaking guys in that part of the world,…
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thisway: In urban design, exclusion zones are becoming commonplace in relation to sponsorship of sporting events. The Brand Exclusion Zone is the newest form of urban demarcation, and can be used not only to affect signage and advertising, but also restrict personal freedom of choice. Within this context, the London 2012 Olympics represents one of…
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Made with Paper
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newyorker: Richard Brody on What to See This Weekend: Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” Twice What makes the film thrillingly different—in content and in affect, in emotional energy and in visual imagination—is its metaphysical and religious element. There’s an expressly transcendent theme in “Moonrise Kingdom” that raises the tender and joyous story of young lovers on…
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Ultraist movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultraist movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia underpaidgenius: underpaidgenius: In a manifesto published by Nosotros magazine (Buenos Aires, 1922), [Jorge Luis] Borges summarized Ultraist goals thus: Reduction of the lyric element to its primordial element, metaphor Deletion of useless middle sentences, linking particles and adjectives. Avoidance of ornamental artifacts, confessionalism, circumstantiation, preaching and farfetched nebulosity.…
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laughingsquid: Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Receives Knighthood