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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: The first sentence of the best answer? ”This is freaking fantastic!” (and I can’t agree more. Full text: Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? Let me explain. I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long)…
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Brooke Tomiello: PUTTING ART BACK ON THE SMALL SCREEN WITH THE RETURN OF MTV’S…
Brooke Tomiello: PUTTING ART BACK ON THE SMALL SCREEN WITH THE RETURN OF MTV’S… brooketomiello: PUTTING ART BACK ON THE SMALL SCREEN WITH THE RETURN OF MTV’S ARTBREAKS! A new Creative Time collaboration with MTV and MoMA PS1 puts video art back on the tube! Starting this month, the revival of the classic MTV program…
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austinkleon: Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works First off, I like a lot of Jonah Lehrer’s writing — I quoted him in Steal, after all — but if you’ve been following me on Twitter, you probably know how I’m feeling these days about neuroscience/art writing: BREAKING NEWS: after stuffing 100 college students into an MRI…
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techwaste: Dotsies, via Phil G.
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It’s an avant-garde, and it commonly takes years for society to recuperate an avant-garde. In 2012, premonitory blogposts; in 2022, solo shows and coffee-table books. An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
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Bill Buxton’s book talks about the insufficiency of state diagrams to pre-visualize human experiences. It made me think about dance step diagrams and choreographic notation schemes. (via Fed by Birds: Dance Diagrams)
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The act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process. Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is beyond our reach. We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it’s only…
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nevver: The Book of the Future
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uchicagopress: July 3, 1997 Jane Alexander The National Endowment for the Arts 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20506 Dear Jane Alexander, I just spoke with a young man from your office, who informed me that I had been chosen to be one of twelve recipients of the National Medal for the Arts at a ceremony…
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curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
curiosity counts: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of curiositycounts: Excerpt: Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics:…