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Curated Design Fiction Videos: the videos every design-fiction fan should see | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
Curated Design Fiction Videos: the videos every design-fiction fan should see | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com notational: *These demonstrate the spectrum of possibility with a design-fiction approach.
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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea… – Antoine de Saint Exupery, as quoted by Neil deGrasse Tyson in his current Reddit AmA One of my life goals is to…
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emergentdigitalpractices: (via KAROLINA SOBECKA) visiting the University of Denver this week. Sniff is now installed in our C-cubed Studios. Karolina is giving us a behind the scenes glimpse at how the work behaves.
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Colombia rebels say freeing all ‘prisoners of war’
nbclatino: A man lights a candle among others forming the word ‘Peace’, on January 26, 2012 in Cali, Colombia, during a tribute to the FARC hostages who died in captivity. (Photo /Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images) by the Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s main rebel group says it will free the last of the government…
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marathonpacks: markrichardson: (…) It’s upsetting to watch, but this is one of the great “Fuck You” moments in popular music history. Instead of just leaving the stage, she rubs the audience’s face in what she had done. Her bravery is astonishing. What crime briefly made her the most hated woman in America? She had the…
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At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not just because of an important award, or a film or a filmmaker, but because at the time, in talk of war, intimidation and aggressions exchanged between politicians, the name of…
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@stoweboyd: To think outside of the box, you first need a box http://t.co/N4uNLEKm How metaphor and embodied cognition impact innovative thinking. February 26, 2012 at 04:25AM via http://bit.ly/w0Gu3f (via stoweboyd) I have been curious about the interaction – if any – between Lakoff, Bordiue [sic], and de Certeau [sic?].
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todaysdocument: On February 26, 1939, in a dramatic act of conscience, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) when it barred the world-renowned singer Marian Anderson, an African American, from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Henry Roberts, 02/26/1939
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There is not a trace in us of that humble acceptance displayed by our parents, who were convinced that administrative issues were of utmost importance and who considered interaction with the state as something to be celebrated. We do not feel that respect, rooted in the distance between the lonely citizen and the majestic heights…
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