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It’s Harder Than You Think: Finally, earlier this week I covered a new startup called Codeacademy that has been signing up thousands of people for its Code Year, a free class designed to teach those of us new to computer science how to code via programming lessons sent each week to our inboxes. Its numbers…
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The highest form of worship, he said, is the remix: ‘You use other people’s works to make something better.’ Spiritual leader of Sweden’s Missionary Church of Kopimism Isak Gerson, as reported by Rollo Romig (via newyorker)
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Provocation#2: Sharon Poggenpohl (by ncstategraphicdesign) This video from the New Contexts / New Practices AIGA Design Educators Conference of 2010 features Sharon Poggenpohl. Sharon was one of my MFA Thesis Advisors, and remains a strong influence on my thinking. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Cyberpunk Bowie, New Wave Bowie: A Look at Scary Monsters
Cyberpunk Bowie, New Wave Bowie: A Look at Scary Monsters hangingfire: My latest for Tor.com, for their Bowie Week series. And I echoed it at Emergent Digital Practices
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I just finished John Harwood’s book The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (Minnesota, 2011). Harwood, who teaches at Oberlin College, does an excellent job of discussing IBM’s design program in an expansive way. Instead of limiting his discussion about what constitutes design, he contends “that the outward appearance of objects is…
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Stowe Boyd: Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist
Stowe Boyd: Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist arcfinity: February 2012 will see the debut of Arc, a bold new digital publication from the makers of New Scientist. Arc will explore the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated…
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Fwd: [Humanist] 25.606 on failure
–[1]———————————————————————— Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 09:21:35 -0500 From: James Rovira Subject: Re: [Humanist] 25.602 on failure I was struck by this quotation too. I think my starting place is thedefinition of failure as the disjunction between intent and realization.From that, I go in a few directions. I’ll be thinking in terms of art,…
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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: It seems like everyone under the sun has posted the “Read Your Bookcase” bookcase, but did you realize that they were actually just letter blocks that can be rearranged and stacked as desired? You can just buy them by the letter and make them say anything you want! Here’s a couple of other pictures…
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“In the realm of art… failure has a different currency [than in other areas of life]. Failure, by definition, takes us beyond assumptions and what we think we know. Artists have long turned their attention to the unrealizability of the quest for perfection, or the open-endedness of experiment, using both dissatisfaction and error as a…