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  • Tania Bruguera launches Immigrant Movement International

    > > >> TANIA BRUGUERA LAUNCHES IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL >> Creative Time is pleased to join the Queens Museum of Art to announce Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International, a long-term art project in the form of an artist-initiated, socio-political movement. Bruguera will spend a year operating a flexible community space in the multinational and transnational…

  • Space workers can be oddly unsuited to anything else. I went to Titusville’s small airport to meet Robert Bial, who runs a plant that refurbishes aircraft landing gear. He is planning to hire up to 60 mechanics from the shuttle programme, but told me that a recent job fair at KSC was acutely depressing. An…

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  • We need hard working people with excellent work ethics. I’m not sure I’m aware of a group of people who work harder than design students. We need individuals comfortable with ambiguity. We need people who can simplify complex ideas, without watering them down, and transform intimidating data to approachable information. We need people who can…

  • This is a notecard when I sort of figured out what I wanted to talk about at the Swiss Design Network conference held a few or four weeks ago. I ended up with something a bit different, but I think carried on with the sentiments of these scrawled notes. The theme of design fiction continues,…

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  • Celebrity Invention: Andy Warhol’s Five-Faced Watch – Rebecca Greenfield – Technology – The Atlantic

  • Build Apps, Not Businesses

    Build Apps, Not Businesses cameronmoll: Sahil Lavingia: David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals is known for lambasting businesses that seem oblivious to the concept of profitability. I don’t really agree with him. I think that you should spend time doing fun little projects. Many fun little projects. Recognize that most of them will die, but that…

  • We extol celebrity at a time when it has never seemed more fleeting or meaningless. A lot more people are famous now for doing, well, nothing—and, so what? Fran Lebowitz in her Empire HBO documentary (Produced by Graydon Carter! Directed by Martin Scorsese!) complained—and I’m paraphrasing—that what has really been lost in American culture is…

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