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sister-in-law just posted an “all okay” message on facebook. the coast of five nations are on tsunami alert.
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big earthquake off coast of Costa Rica + tsunami alert. we can’t reach our family in San Jose.
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Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus1 – NOWNESS
Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus1 – NOWNESS New work from the digital/visual master Chris Cunningham – Chris Cunningham: jaqapparatus1 on Nowness.com.
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julian: #designfiction playing cards (Taken with Instagram)
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It was precisely this division that Gropius intended the Bauhaus to heal. “There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman,” he declared in his 1919 manifesto. Dismissing both the old academy model and the new regimented design classroom, he concluded by appealing to the vision of the medieval guild: “There are no…
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Two old, black girls…still holding up America
jkottke: As it received high marks from friends, I wanted to like John Jeremiah Sullivan’s recent NY Times Magazine profile of Venus and Serena Williams more than I did, but I think Sullivan had so little access to the sisters that it turned into more of a sick Frank story than expected. The story has…
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laphamsquarterly: 1818: From Thomas Jefferson’s commissioner’s report for the University of Virginia: The objects of this primary education determine its character and limits. These objects would be: To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business. To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his…
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The New Aesthetic: 0/ That Conceptual & other ‘immaterial’ art traditions are embraced by…
The New Aesthetic: 0/ That Conceptual & other ‘immaterial’ art traditions are embraced by… new-aesthetic: 0/ That Conceptual & other ‘immaterial’ art traditions are embraced by Contemporary Art, while ‘digital art’ is not, is not so mysterious.. 1/ Computed art doesn’t position itself as direct (flattering) challenge to the legacy of the Artefact. It has…
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Excuse me self-recrimination but I have to get to self-congratulation. #annual_report
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jankenpo: “We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which ‘now’ was of some…