Category: words

  • hydeordie: Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #2 (Ten Dimensions of Creative Personalities), 2011

  • Graham McAllister, director of user experience studio Vertical Slice, examines the conundrum of creating a twin stick shooter for the touch-only iOS, breaking down the dos and don’ts, and examining a number of popular games to see what approaches work best. (via Gamasutra – Features – A Guide To iOS Twin Stick Shooter Usability)

  • paperbits: Maria Montessori has a posse, yes she does (by cho girl)

  • ‘I don’t own a computer, have no idea how to work one,’ Woody Allen told an interviewer recently. Most of us have come to find computers indispensable, but he manages to have a productive life without one. Are those of us with computers really better off?… It’s not that the web is making us less…

  • kateoplis: Chinese artist, philosopher, architect, photographer, and one of the Chinese Government’s most prominent internal critics, Ai Weiwei, has been arrested today. The above text is from his Tumblr, where his tweets are translated to English. This is not Ai’s first arrest; he was placed under house arrest in November 2010 to prevent a protest of the demolition of his newly…

  • unicornicopia-deactivated201210: A poster from our latest campaign… @racebending

  • nevver: Xavier Veilhan hmmmmm, I wonder if Veilhan is familiar with Argent’s “I see what you mean” located in downtown Denver.

  • Without play, there is no experimentation. Paul Rand, ​t​h​e​ ​n​e​w​ ​s​h​e​l​t​o​n​ ​w​e​t​/​d​r​y (via nevver)

  • After the Shock Is Gone | Postmodern Times by Eric Felten

    In his 1962 book “The Theory of the Avant-Garde” Renato Poggioli observed that “Like any artistic tradition, no matter how antitraditional it may be, the avant-garde also has its conventions.” The most conventional of modernist conventions has been the need to shock and offend, doing so, as the lingo has it, by “transgressing boundaries.” But…

  • Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours. César Chávez (via crookedindifference)