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Contemporary art’s job is to wreck whatever came before it. And from the very beginning after the Old Masters, from then on, each generation wrecked that. That something that’s pretty and beautiful is probably the worst thing that you could say today in contemporary art about something, unless it’s so pretty it’s nauseating. So, and…
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“Racism and Science Fiction” by Samuel R. Delany
tokenblkgirl: In the Dealers’ room was an Autograph Table where, throughout the convention, pairs of writers were assigned an hour each to make themselves available for book signing. The hours the writers would be at the table was part of the program. At 12:30 on Saturday I came to sit down just as Nalo Hopkinson…
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I don’t think anybody ever asked about the soul,” he answers in a very matter-of-fact way, “This was my question, it was the question I challenged the team with.” “I think people had very clear and concrete visions about Android and its strategy, but from a holistic design perspective — not just the look and…
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cinabrio: BOSTICH + FUSSIBLE @ VOILÀ ANTARA
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Avi What’s the importance of bookbinding in a digital age? Michael My friend who owns several bookstores often laughs at me. “We’re in a dying trade,” he says. Too often, I have to agree with him. But when I get sick of all the information beaming at me through the computer and over the radio…
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At 61, has the great musical adventurer grown conservative? In an interview with Salon, Gabriel reveals a complex motive for might seem a backward turn. “I think [Stanley] Kubrick said, ‘If you want to make the future credible, include the past.’ A world that is both familiar and strange is the most interesting to me.”…
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Knowing that it could be risky to accept such a designer’s descriptions of his own works at face value, author Rick Poynor chose a more effective way to describe Jan van Toorn’s work: instead of describing its appearance or speculating about the rationale behind it, Poynor looks in detail at JvT’s reading list. The idea…
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bmdesign: Kerning Game Saw this yesterday. I made a prototype of something similar in grad school, in hypercard.
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Attracting these consumers is itself a new challenge. Most of us will no longer tolerate interruptions, meaningless pitches, garish pop-ups, Las Vegas-style skyscraper ads or junk email. We are looking for real meaning, solid relevance, timeliness, and yes, transparency and truthfulness The View – Looking To The Future Of Media | Raedar (via mediafuturist)
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We don’t have good language to talk about this kind of thing,” Mr. Jobs replied. “In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation…