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unicornicopia-deactivated201210: A poster from our latest campaign… @racebending
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nevver: Xavier Veilhan hmmmmm, I wonder if Veilhan is familiar with Argent’s “I see what you mean” located in downtown Denver.
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Without play, there is no experimentation. Paul Rand, the new shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
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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…
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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)
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Your point with the Viridian Design movement, that the best way to rewire culture and thought is by hacking design, made great sense, and Viridian succeeded in drawing designers and futurists to the problem of global warming and accelerating global awareness of the potential problem, but it was hard to imagine the backlash. Global warming’s…
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After minimalism, conceptual and performance art, the idea of the artist as someone in a skilled and thinking occupation, engaged with a particular set of materials and visual ideas, has been thoroughly suppressed in favour of the idea of art as mainly an intellectual activity. The artist as thinker, manager, intellectual rather than maker, worker,…
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illillill: Sol LeWitt “Geometric Figures & Color”, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979
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inkwell.vue.400 : State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky permalink #68 of 156: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 7 Jan 11 02:14 “Abundance breaks more things than scarcity,” as Clay Shirky once abundantly said. I used to be involved in the paper fanzine scene, so I was never much daunted by the supposed…
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