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yluk: Alphabet Topography, Typeface The physical form of language is a record of collective memory. In this monotype typeface, the height of the letterforms is determined by how often a letter is used. This typeface maps the rhythmic ebb and flow of English. Each letter sits in a 6 x 6 inch square, allowing for…
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The discourse of doping in America has focused mainly on use of anabolic steroids since the ‘80s, but doping in cycling is a much older tradition and has little to do with steroids. The modern sport was born in the 1890s, and from its genesis riders used chemicals to gain an edge. Coffee was spiked…
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The discourse of doping in America has focused mainly on use of anabolic steroids since the ‘80s, but doping in cycling is a much older tradition and has little to do with steroids. The modern sport was born in the 1890s, and from its genesis riders used chemicals to gain an edge. Coffee was spiked…
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Modern & Im/material things: Rejecting Materiality for the “Authentically Digital,” Or a Note about Windows 8 New Logo
Modern & Im/material things: Rejecting Materiality for the “Authentically Digital,” Or a Note about Windows 8 New Logo modernandmaterialthings: Certain corners of the web seem to be all aflame, debating the aesthetic merits of the updated Windows 8 logo. Some, like Venture Beat, deem it ugly, denouncing it as as Microsoft’s “Gap Moment” and declaring…
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Modern & Im/material things: Rejecting Materiality for the “Authentically Digital,” Or a Note about Windows 8 New Logo
Modern & Im/material things: Rejecting Materiality for the “Authentically Digital,” Or a Note about Windows 8 New Logo modernandmaterialthings: Certain corners of the web seem to be all aflame, debating the aesthetic merits of the updated Windows 8 logo. Some, like Venture Beat, deem it ugly, denouncing it as as Microsoft’s “Gap Moment” and declaring…
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There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble…
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There’s an education bubble, which is, like the others, psychosocial. There’s a wide public buy-in that leads to a product being overvalued because it’s linked to future expectations that are unrealistic. Education is similar to the tech bubble of the late 1990s, which assumed crazy growth in businesses that didn’t pan out. The education bubble…
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Here’s a compositional secret. It’s so obvious and simple, you’ll say to yourself, “This man is bullshitting me.” I am not. This is one of the most fundamental things in all theatrical movie composition and yet magicians know nothing of it. Ready? …(click to read) Teller quoted by Brian Brushwood at Brian Brushwood: Bizarre Magic. 14 years…
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Here’s a compositional secret. It’s so obvious and simple, you’ll say to yourself, “This man is bullshitting me.” I am not. This is one of the most fundamental things in all theatrical movie composition and yet magicians know nothing of it. Ready? …(click to read) Teller quoted by Brian Brushwood at Brian Brushwood: Bizarre Magic. 14 years…
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Life after Papyrus
lareviewofbooks: SWATI PANDEY on Stephen Greenblatt’s Lucretius. Ancient iconography (XIV) of Medieval Scribe and Titivillus, literary demon and “patron demon of scribes” Stephen GreenblattThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern W.W. Norton & Company, September 2011. 356 pp. Books. They have an almost alarming corporeality. Stephen Greenblatt, esteemed Harvard professor and founder of New Historicism,…