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Design Think: On columns in InDesign
Design Think: On columns in InDesign design-think: Once you have set up your grid in InDesign, there are two choices for setting columns of text using the grid as a guide: manually with text running across multiple text frames (option A) and automatically with the ‘number of columns’ tool (option B). I suppose there’s no…
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http://vimeo.com/16992326 thedocumentarian: Room 666, Wim Wenders (1982) Wenders set up a static camera in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer on the future of cinema. Features Goddard, Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Antonioni and Spielberg amongst others. Kudos to Ben Reed (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Scratch is an early computer language learning environment enabling young beginners to get results without having to learn syntactically correct writing first. Created by the MIT Media Lab, it is intended to motivate for further learning through playfully experimenting and creating projects, such as interactive animations etc. scratch.mit.edu (via lifeandcode)
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newshouramgrad: For students with learning disabilities, iPads and digital audio programs are able to help them perform at their grade level.
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Do not pretend that you are advancing game studies in any way [by defining “game”]. You are more likely to be holding it back. Chris Bateman (via notgames)
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To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior. App Inventor looks a lot like Scratch for grownups. (via lifeandcode)
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“Moments of insight are a very-well studied psychological phenomenon with two defining features,” Lehrer tells Fresh Air’s Dave Davies. “The answer comes out of the blue – when we least expect it. … [And] as soon as the answer arrives we know this is the answer we’ve been looking for. … The answer comes attached…
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Coffeehouses brought people and ideas together; they inspired brilliant ideas and discoveries that would make Britain the envy of the world. The first stocks and shares were traded in Jonathan’s coffeehouse by the Royal Exchange (now a private members’ club); merchants, ship-captains, cartographers, and stockbrokers coalesced into Britain’s insurance industry at Lloyd’s on Lombard Street…
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First of all, as a student of culture and popular culture and the impact that it has on us all, I know this to be true: Seeing yourself represented in the popular culture is really critical in terms of forming your own self image. I’m old enough to have been around before seeing black people…
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[I’m] really liking Kickstarter, the type of project that shows up and gets funded… they’re handing out more money than the NEA.. if this goes on, it won’t be long before geek art… is our dominant means of popular expression. A tidal wave of Kickstarter tech art is going to sweep the land. Bruce Sterling…