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I met John Cage in 1949 for two days. He was staying at the same hotel. He introduced himself to me, and I didn’t know who he was then; but a friend of mine said, he’s one of the new music people. I showed him one of my first abstract things, and he was the…
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walkerartcenter: Going camping this Memorial Day weekend? Well, you’ll definitely need a map made of photocopies, dried holy basil, a boxed camp stove, a metal can opener in a plastic bag, dried red chili, and all the other items in Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Without Title (Rucksack Installation) from 1993. (via Walker Art Center | Collections and Resources)…
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thenewinquiry: thenewinquiry: Francis Spufford’s Red Plenty, like Infinite Jest, is a book you need to read with two bookmarks: one for the main text, one for the endnotes. It is also like Infinite Jest insofar as it shows us an alternative future that seems uncannily like our own. The difference is that while David Foster Wallace constructed a purely…
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Museums on Tumblr
Museums on Tumblr rerylikes: Whitney Museum Sculpture Center LACMA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Walker Art Center New Museum The Jewish Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art MCA Chicago Rubin Museum of Art The Getty Papillion Institute of Art Neue Galerie Museum of Modern Art Library Allen Memorial Art Museum The Noguchi Museum Brooklyn Museum…
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Enter Move the Turtle, a graphical app for the iPhone and iPad for beginners to learn programming concepts in a hands-on, non-theoretical way. The app consists of giving instructions to a turtle who moves around the screen trying to capture diamonds. It teaches basic programming concepts through a game type interface. Kids can try out…
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nevver: Montag’s Book Club
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criticalengineering.org
criticalengineering.org THE CRITICAL ENGINEERING MANIFESTO 0. The Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transfo rmative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing its influence. ….. read all 10 points. A great re-thinking of…
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Book Porn: Neil Gaiman: Ray Bradbury
Book Porn: Neil Gaiman: Ray Bradbury neil-gaiman: This is really raw. I had half an hour in my hotel room this afternoon, so I wrote this as fast as I could, and sent it to the Guardian, and an hour later it was up on their site. It’s an attempt to talk about Ray Bradbury…