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Provocation#2: Sharon Poggenpohl (by ncstategraphicdesign) This video from the New Contexts / New Practices AIGA Design Educators Conference of 2010 features Sharon Poggenpohl. Sharon was one of my MFA Thesis Advisors, and remains a strong influence on my thinking. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Cyberpunk Bowie, New Wave Bowie: A Look at Scary Monsters
Cyberpunk Bowie, New Wave Bowie: A Look at Scary Monsters hangingfire: My latest for Tor.com, for their Bowie Week series. And I echoed it at Emergent Digital Practices
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The wistful lost spaceman Major Tom is revealed as the pathetic subject of a twisted little children’s rhyme: “Ashes to ashes, funk to funky / we know Major Tom’s a junky / strung out on heaven’s high / feeling an all-time low.” It’s the end of optimism; cynicism and irony are the order of the…
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laughingsquid: reddit will be doing a blackout of its website on January 18th from 8am-8pm to protest PIPA/SOPA
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I just finished John Harwood’s book The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 (Minnesota, 2011). Harwood, who teaches at Oberlin College, does an excellent job of discussing IBM’s design program in an expansive way. Instead of limiting his discussion about what constitutes design, he contends “that the outward appearance of objects is…
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Stowe Boyd: Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist
Stowe Boyd: Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist arcfinity: February 2012 will see the debut of Arc, a bold new digital publication from the makers of New Scientist. Arc will explore the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated…
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I have checked several relevant sites
towerofsleep: And it looks like Manuel de Landa became a world-renowned philosopher without getting any graduate degrees whatsoever. He got a BFA in the 70s, made a bunch of experimental films, moved into software programming and computer art, and then just started straight pumping out articles and books of major significance. LIKE A BOSS.
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Happinomics
Happinomics bobulate: Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, answers how it’s possible to measure something as subjective as happiness: See also: A recent study showed that very few experiences affect us for more than three months. Measuring subjective experiences is a lot easier than you think. It’s what your eye doctor does when she…
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Happinomics
Happinomics bobulate: Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, answers how it’s possible to measure something as subjective as happiness: See also: A recent study showed that very few experiences affect us for more than three months. Measuring subjective experiences is a lot easier than you think. It’s what your eye doctor does when she…