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artismyhustle: Harvard University invited Muhammad Ali to speak to a class of recent graduates in 1975. He gave a brilliant lecture focusing on the importance of education and culture, and promptly won over his audience. A young man shouted, “Muhammad Ali, could you please recite a poem?” The old champion hesitated a moment and then…
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I am thinking of giving away my collection of Graphis, Communication Arts, ID, Wired, and Print magazines. They should go to a good home, not landfill. I’m not fully decided. This isn’t a whim. I’m reflecting on the consequences. On my emotional attachment to the artifacts that may historicize late 20th century design practices.
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dragonbloodink: If you have or will have student loans, you need to read this. Something potentially life-changing for millions of people has happened. On March 8, 2012, Rep. Hansen Clarke introduced H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012. This act proposes that people with federal student loan debt pay 10% of their discretionary income for…
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Author leads caravan to “smuggle” removed books into Arizona
nbclatino: Chicano!, one of the books no longer available in the classroom in Tucson, Arizona.(Courtesy Arte Publico Press) Using a word meant to turn the infamous narco-trafficking phrase on its head, Latino activists calling themselves the librotraficantes (book traffickers) are marching their caravan of books through Texas and New Mexico to Arizona in protest of…
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Karma bookstore‘s in-house publishing house just released a novella, entitled What We Lose in Flowers, by art dealer and curator Bill Powers which tells the story of a Peter Beard, an artist in a failing relationship with a younger woman who used to date his son. The book opens with a quote from John Currin,…
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mohandasgandhi: crookedindifference: Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. The date of the test is usually considered to be the beginning of the Atomic Age. The above picture is the Trinity explosion, 0.016 seconds after detonation.…
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smarterplanet: Steven Wolfram: The Personal Analytics of My Life One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were…
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Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality
Tom Morris: Oppression, identity and sexuality tommorrisdotorg: Oh yeah, what a lovely, academic-ish name for a post. It’d be even better if it had a colon afterwards, then a subtitle starting with the word “towards”. Oppression, identity and sexuality: towards a poststructuralist hermeneutic of something or other. See, I don’t like talking about who I…
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ephemeraa: “Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better” by Stefan Sagmeister
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nbclatino: Acclaimed director Robert Rodriguez at last night’s Comcast event in Washington D.C. to officially launch El Rey network. El Rey, proposed by Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures, will be an action-packed, entertainment network in English for both Latino and general audiences. Programs will offer a little bit of everything, including reality, scripted and animated series,…