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explore-blog: The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one. You are related bodily to a solid block of metal letters, to the weight of the trays, to the adroitness of spacing, to the tempo and temper of the machine. You acquire some of the weight and solidity of the metal, the strength and power of…
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new-aesthetic: new-aesthetic: The idea of a one-to-one scale map of the world, portraying everything in it, is a venerable device in literature, surfacing most famously in the work of Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges; in Harry Potter, there’s a map that shows what everyone in Hogwarts is doing at every moment. But in the era…
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rgr-pop: Newest concern: If Persian Melon was the official shade of Pan-Am hostesses, what was going on the mouth of 1966 Pan-American Airlines Stewardess Barbie? I’m not really sure what the original face looked like, I’ve never seen one in person and a lot of the “originals” floating around are the Pan-Am ensemble on other…
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tinycartridge: The Nintendo Knitting Machine, rumored to have been shown at a late ’80s Consumer Electronics Show for years, finally revealed here in this brochure posted online last night by former Nintendo spokesman Howard Phillips (of Howard & Nester fame). I would have knitted some crazy garments with this dang thing — Mega Man socks, Teenage…
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Courage doesn’t mean screaming in the streets : “Ho Chi Minh or Guevara.” Courage for an intelligent man, is not minding making himself a damned nuisance… I’ve never had that true courage, the daily courage which means sacrificing identity to be effective. excerpted from Chris Marker’s Grin Without a Cat. The writer/speaker of these words…
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tumblr dashboard typography insufficient my new retina display
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sudden, momentary, power outage hoping all of the hard drives start up again after giving them a few hours rest
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The “static, sensual present” The other night, I found this nice piece about Debussy and Japan. It talks about the importance of negative space in Japanese visual culture (I didn’t know they have a specific term for it – Ma), Shakuhachi music, and how Debussy apparently “eschews forward-thrusting, teleological development in favour of a static,…
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rosalarian: duessa: peterwalteri: totalspiffage: zaquanimus: parkaposy: NEW AVAILABLE ART PROGRAM It seems to be a mix between SAI and photoshop, simplified. It even has a stabalizer that works even with the mouse. Best of all, it’s free, and works for both Mac and Windows. To give it a try, head right on down to http://firealpaca.com/ Reblogging…