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With its open-ended nature and robust creation tools, Minecraft has been used to create some amazing things. And as one teacher learned, those very same elements that make the game so compelling also make it a great educational tool. Around two months ago, Joel Levin, a computer teacher at Manhattan’s Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School,…
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Sure, there were some pretty fantastic creations and ideas explored during the first exercises and free-build portion of my workshop on Sunday, but when I asked the thirty odd visitors age 4-72 whether they wanted to build something impossibly tall, the room became electric and everyone’s eyes opened more than a little bit wider than…
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The poster above, by Jan van Toorn for the Van Abbemuseum, is a museum exhibition promotion but it is also a bold critique. It manages to disclose the banalities of both the art market and of accepted visual communication processes. The work represents Van Toorn’s career-long concern with reclaiming the media as a channel of…
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The poster above, by Jan van Toorn for the Van Abbemuseum, is a museum exhibition promotion but it is also a bold critique. It manages to disclose the banalities of both the art market and of accepted visual communication processes. The work represents Van Toorn’s career-long concern with reclaiming the media as a channel of…