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The police arrested Apollinaire and Picasso, both foreigners and, more threatening, both well-known advocates of modern art’s revolutionary power. Apollinaire often proclaimed, “in art, one has to kill one’s father,” and had signed a petition in support of burning down the Louvre. Picasso himself had advocated against museums as “petty and ridiculous things.” While such…
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(via Hello, Skater Girl by Julian Bleecker — Kickstarter) I’ve followed the development of Julian Bleecker’s project, Hello, Skater Girl, for some time. In it Julian is bringing a spotlight onto an under represented part of the skater population. His photos celebrate strength, grace, and agility of these athletes. His interviews provide humanizing depth. (Source:…
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My brother and I played Mega Man all night every night for a week one summer when we were kids. We were staying at a condo at the beach with our parents for vacation and the game was there, plugged up to a small TV in the corner of the bedroom we shared. We sat…
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dinosaurparty: (via Museum 2.0: Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement) And if the graphic wasn’t excited enough, there’s a whole report from the Irvine Foundation! Our Mini-game-jam at the Denver Art Museum, April 16 & 17 of 2011 follows this pattern, most especially Audience-As-Artist. The education and young-adult outreach officers…
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Strategic Science Fiction Reader Caucus with a Splash of Transformative Justice
I got to be a part of this team, which included Leah, Jenna and Alexis. We started by geeking out, and brainstorming all of our favorite radical science fiction materials and creators. Here’s the list of works/creators, followed by the full collective notes from the session (taken on a collective notepad!) Creators: writer Iain Banks,…
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austinkleon: Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. I had no idea this was coming out. The original 2007 essay—a “plagiarism” woven together from passages from other writers—was a huge influence on me and Steal and probably a bunch of other people. (Heck, David Shields took the idea and turned it into a whole…
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Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time
Storyboards and Segues makes it really easy to design and prototype iOS apps at the same time immerseyoursoulincode: When I worked on the XBox 360, all the Interaction Design was documented in Visio diagrams which were manually translated into Flash prototypes for usability studies. I had wanted a solution like what XCode now offers with…
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thenearsightedmonkey: Meet me by the weeping willow tree. The Near-Sighted Monkey’s favorite cartoonist, Bil Keane, has died. “He was just our dad. The great thing about him is he worked at home, we got to see him all the time, and we would all sit down and have dinner together. What you see in the…
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nevver: Dead at 89, “Family Circus” creator Bil Keane
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thenearsightedmonkey: I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read. There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good. For…