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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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Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine Herzog’s advice to students at his Rogue Film School—where he teaches how to pick locks and forge shooting permits—is “read, read, read, read, read, read, read—if you do not read, you’ll never be a filmmaker,” but he isn’t interested in talking about…
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theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they’re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was “little more than…
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huntedandgathered-blog: Jon-Kyle Mohr
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DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro
DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro dcwomenkickingass: Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died yesterday. She was 75. Women had run for president in the past (I have an aunt who has a button she saved from when Shirley Chisolm ran in 1972) but no woman…
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iwdrm: “Monday, we burn Miller … Tuesday, Tolstoy … Wednesday, Walt Whitman … Friday, Faulkner … and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto.” Fahrenheit 451 (1966)