RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • GET RAD.: Amanda Hiscock (canadian anti-G20 organizer) statement to the court

    GET RAD.: Amanda Hiscock (canadian anti-G20 organizer) statement to the court dropouthangoutspaceout: lukesimcoe: martintensions: [Today, Mandy was sentenced to 16 months in prison. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court, which was interrupted 8 times, by both the judge and the prosecutor. In the end, they spoke more during the time…

  • Tower of Sleep: Amanda Hiscock (canadian anti-G20 organizer) statement to the court

    Tower of Sleep: Amanda Hiscock (canadian anti-G20 organizer) statement to the court martintensions: [Today, Mandy was sentenced to 16 months in prison. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court, which was interrupted 8 times, by both the judge and the prosecutor. In the end, they spoke more during the time alloted…

  • The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Albert Einstein on intuition vs. rationality (via curiositycounts)

  • 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…

  • 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)

  • 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/)

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…