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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…
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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…
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uncrate: Ripchair Off Road Wheelchair
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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
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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)
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Selfie for Lisa, during her critical meditation on selfies (at Buena Vista, Colorado)
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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.
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garadinervi: Gertrud Preiswerk, 1920s-1930s, Bauhaus Archive, The Met, New York
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additivism: How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless Tech enables us to do more while understanding less. That’s fine, until there’s a glitch – which is why the US navy is teaching sailors how to navigate by the stars The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it…
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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)