RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • museumoflatinamericanart: Last week our Chief Curator, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill traveled to Colombia for the opening of Sociales: Debora Arango Arrives Today at the National Museum of Colombia. The same exhibition will open later this year here at MOLAA on September 23. Arango was a contemporary of Frida Kahlo, and like Kahlo, she pushed boundaries ; in a…

  • rafaelfajardo: I am posting this here because I was talking to my students about the polarization in attitudes between work and play. I created a flippant, playful, neo-Calvinism based on Calvin and Hobbes to mark the contrast. In the age of industry of Calvin play is suspect. In the Ludic Age where neo-Calvinism is ascendant…

  • Introducing FF Chartwell Designed by Travis Kochel, FF Chartwell is a fantastic typeface for creating simple graphs. Driven by the frustration of creating graphs within design applications and inspired by typefaces such as FF Beowolf and ­­FF PicLig, Travis saw an opportunity to take advantage of OpenType technology to simplify the process. Using OpenType features,…

  • bookporn: Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes and Luis Buñuel.

  • bookporn: Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes.

  • bookporn: Mario Vargas Llosa and his wife Patricia, Octavio Paz (behind her), Carlos Fuentes, Juan Carlos Onetti, Emir Rodríguez Monegal and Pablo Neruda. 1966

  • Yeah, Sendak recognized that life is fraught, but that you’re resilient and that you’ll get through it somehow.… and told you so without becoming in any way moralistic. It was just really reporting on his own life experience. Art Spiegleman in The New Yorker. ART SPIEGELMAN DISCUSSES MAURICE SENDAK (via protoslacker)

  • I am posting this here because I was talking to my students about the polarization in attitudes between work and play. I created a flippant, playful, neo-Calvinism based on Calvin and Hobbes to mark the contrast. In the age of industry of Calvin play is suspect. In the Ludic Age where neo-Calvinism is ascendant play…

  • Anarchism for Fun and Profit

    Anarchism for Fun and Profit Managing knowledge worker productivity is hard. The biggest problems is that it’s not even really clear what it is they’re doing. If you have a manual laborer, and his job is to make widgets, you can just count the widgets at the end of the day, and there you go.…

  • theatlantic: Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know…