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The students who come out of school without jobs aren’t, for the most part, starry-eyed liberal arts majors but rather people who thought a degree in business, graphic design or nursing was a practical, job-oriented credential. How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel – Bloomberg via Tower of Sleep
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nevver: Type club
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I am not a policy maker and have no desire to be one. I am not running for office and would never be elected were I to. I have no designs on becoming a lobbyist. I am a father, a ‘husband’, an actor and a citizen of this country and planet who flippantly expressed on…
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Do you read to your children from your iPad or other device, or encourage them to use an e-reader to read to you? Many of us do, at least on occasion — even I, who wrote here some weeks ago that I rarely read on my own iPad anymore because I want my children to…
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By many standards, Gibson is a slow writer – his book publishing career is 27 years old, and consists of nine and a half novels, a book of short stories and this collection of essays – but he is a very, very fine one. His work has been seminal to many key moments at the…
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moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirrorrelease date: March 16, 2012 Mirror Mirror is a comedic, female-empowering version of the Snow White tale. Julia Roberts and Lily Collins play the Evil Queen and Snow White respectively and they seem to fit their roles perfectly. Although visually, the tale is a more classic rendition, with over the top…
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Roboto was almost immediately branded a Frankenfont, a multi-headed hydra, and many other names by font purists and tyros alike, because of what seems to be a borrowing of identifiable features of several well-known fonts, including Helvetica. Stephen Coles at Typographica singled out characters he felt quite similar in form from Helvetica, Myriad, Universe, FF…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug bridgettelizabeth: John Cleese on creativity (by zeekomkommers) “We get our ideas from what I’m going to call for a moment our unconscious — the part of our mind that goes on working, for example, when we’re asleep. So what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of…
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kateoplis: William Gibson: The Future Now What is the future to you?Tomorrow. Literally. The present is a very short interval, today. I don’t feel we live in an era. An era’s supposed to be a long period of the same sort of thing. I don’t think we’re having that, unless you want to crank the…
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It may seem astonishing to see a book company expanding so rapidly in the digital age, or a thriving market for three-dimensional libraries: Countless oracles have proclaimed print products dead. Yet that prophecy only seems to steel the Assoulines’ resolve to make their enterprise’s core products more elaborate and sumptuous than ever. The world of…