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laughingsquid: Instantly share posts on Tumblr from WordPress.com
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prostheticknowledge: Layar Creator Layar release a simplified augmented reality editing service to bring digital connectivity to print media. Layar, the world’s leading mobile augmented reality (AR) provider, today announced the launch of the Layar Creator, a self-service web application for activating print pages with digital content. By simplifying and demystifying previously complex AR technology, the…
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DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!: Questions from art students
DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!: Questions from art students limbicspace: I’m interning for an artist agency that reps over a hundred artists worldwide and they want to know what college art students are asking about the industry near graduation. They’ll be making a Q&A blog post. Wanna know how to get jobs? How to…
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“Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have been hawking his Kickstarter campaign.”
“Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have been hawking his Kickstarter campaign.” austinkleon: While reading this New York Times article about Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter campaign, this sentence, spoken by former music executive Greg Scholl, made me so fucking crazy. The underlying romantic and snobby sentiment here is that Cobain was a “real” artist who wouldn’t have subjected himself…
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There’s some point in the early ’90s where the dumbing down of America spread to the art world. It was really discouraging, in fact sickening to me, to see this stuff that was being considered for publication in magazines and even later put into art galleries and respected in art circles. The truth is that…
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Like the men hanging from canvas wings and pushing off from soft promontories, Delsarteans knew enough to follow the natural momentum of their initial impulse; like the glider pilots, too, their performances were customarily short and self-consciously dramatic. But when Wilbur Wright in 1904 banked slowly over an Ohio field in his spindly biplane and…
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kottke.org: Bill Murray interview in Esquire
kottke.org: Bill Murray interview in Esquire jkottke: If you’re like me, you can read interviews with Bill Murray all day long. Here, go nuts. When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. There are people who want to be your friend right away. I say, “We’re not gonna be friends until we get…
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You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger
You Are Not a Curator, You Are Actually Just a Filthy Blogger brianlucid: As a former actual curator, of like, actual art and whatnot, I think I’m fairly well positioned to say that you folks with your blog and your Tumblr and your whatever are not actually engaged in a practice of curation… by Choire Sicha
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theweekmagazine: The video games you play with your mind The gaming controller of the future won’t have joysticks or buttons; it’ll wrap around your head. A number of companies like San Jose-based NeuroSky are developing affordable, consumer-ready controllers that takes cues from the electrical signals in a wearer’s brain to dictate onscreen action. Here, a…
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industrialist: Domsai Designer: Matteo Cibic