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At first blush, they would seem to have nothing to do with one another. BuzzFeed – the Internet’s finest crackerjack box of sticky, clicky listicles sprinkled with original reporting – announced that it raised $19 million in venture funding. In a far-away corner of the Web, Andrew Sullivan, the pioneering blogger who has expanded into…
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The artisanal approach is a departure from the original Polaroid experience, which was all about instant gratification. But immediacy is no longer what’s missing in photography today. We can share any image with anyone in seconds with a couple clicks of a smartphone button. What our photographs lack today are the permanence of tangibility. Fotobar’s…
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The artisanal approach is a departure from the original Polaroid experience, which was all about instant gratification. But immediacy is no longer what’s missing in photography today. We can share any image with anyone in seconds with a couple clicks of a smartphone button. What our photographs lack today are the permanence of tangibility. Fotobar’s…
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A Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2012 | Near Future Laboratory
A Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2012 | Near Future Laboratory An update from an art/technology/futurist(?) collective – an interesting study in 2012 ideas and movements.
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A Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2012 | Near Future Laboratory
A Few Things The Laboratory Did In 2012 | Near Future Laboratory An update from an art/technology/futurist(?) collective – an interesting study in 2012 ideas and movements.
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mudwerks: (via Anonymous Works: Skeleton Has Mechanical Bones) “…The skull is composed of everything from sewing machine bobbins to triggers for rifles, while the body of the structure is formed from connecting rods, springs, vises, and other parts from the mechanical world. What is most astounding, however, is that the arms and legs may be…
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In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter. The co-founders, computer science professors at Stanford University, watched with amazement as enrollment passed two million last month, with 70,000 new…
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unpluggednoisynoise: cj-sewers: lepidopteraqueen: 毬藻 its alive! this marimo is about 6 years old. The bottom of Lake Akan in Hokkaido Japan is inhabited by miraculously spherical rare algae called “marimo.” In 1921 they were declared a “Japanese Natural Treasure” and the public’s interest in Marimo was stirred. Many Japanese have Marimo as pets in their…
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Andrew Sullivan: And that’s where the real pay-off begins. If this model works, we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be paid directly by readers, and that an independent site, if tended to diligently, can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely. The point of doing…
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Andrew Sullivan: And that’s where the real pay-off begins. If this model works, we’ll have proof of principle that a small group of writers and editors can be paid directly by readers, and that an independent site, if tended to diligently, can grow an audience large enough to sustain it indefinitely. The point of doing…