Category: words

  • How and why we built an internet connected solar panel

    How and why we built an internet connected solar panel So we built a proof of concept solar panel kit that automatically creates renewable energy certificates as it generates power. Why energy? What are renewable energy certificates? Let us explain.

  • prostheticknowledge: GENERATIVE LOGO SYNTHESIZER Graphic Design project by @patrikhuebner generates random logos for fictional brands: Creating a visual identity is one of the most intricate and challenging tasks a designer can face and it is one of those very special realms that uniquely blur the lines between art and design. Aiding and promoting instant public…

  • The Architect Who Became a Diamond

    The Architect Who Became a Diamond 99percentinvisible: No really, they made a diamond out of his ashes.  the image shows a wall very much like mexican architect Barragan would have made. Neither the New Yorker nor 99% Invisible care to let us know. Barragan’s work is sublime and his name should be repeated, often and…

  • Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction – The New Yorker

    Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction – The New Yorker

  • While walking home from #imagine2020 lecture was stopped by man: Sir! That t-shirt is AWESOME! It’s heartening to have heard that. #gamingsfeministilluminati (at Twenty One | 01 On Market)

  • Selfie for Lisa, during her critical meditation on selfies (at Buena Vista, Colorado)

  • Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex and No One Is Sure How to Stop Them

    Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex and No One Is Sure How to Stop Them Magical realism is evenly distributed throughout all of Colombia, and not restricted to the northern coastal region where Gabriel Garcia Marquez based his fiction. Umberto Eco’s concept of Hyperreality cannot encapsulate the existence and persistence of Escobar’s hippos. 

  • garadinervi: Gertrud Preiswerk, 1920s-1930s, Bauhaus Archive, The Met, New York

  • Gentrification spreads the myth of native incompetence: That people need to be imported to be important, that a sign of a neighbourhood’s “success” is the removal of its poorest residents. True success lies in giving those residents the services and opportunities they have long been denied. The peril of hipster economics (via socio-logic)