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But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall “Balloon Dog” that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling “Balloon Dog” bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a…
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In art, at the center, is the concept of beauty. The notion of “beauty” is loose. It is contested. It is even frequently denied its central role in many contemporary notions of the form. But what no one who wants to talk about art can do is ignore beauty. You can go around it or…
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For boys–even boys like this author, whose liberal-ish parents fulminated against the soul-scarring effects of “violent toys”–growing up in that America meant dreaming of guns. Cap guns, whose sweetly acrid smell is a grace note in memories of my boyhood summers. The impressively realistic toy Peacemaker in the Sears Roebuck catalog, with the tie that…
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For boys–even boys like this author, whose liberal-ish parents fulminated against the soul-scarring effects of “violent toys”–growing up in that America meant dreaming of guns. Cap guns, whose sweetly acrid smell is a grace note in memories of my boyhood summers. The impressively realistic toy Peacemaker in the Sears Roebuck catalog, with the tie that…
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mahalamorata: pixel nighthawks
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Jobs and Apple definitely have a better handle on the future of mobile devices and interfaces right now than any other CEO and company and are bold enough to come right out and say it: “Our competitors are looking at this like it’s the next PC market. That is not the right approach to this.”…
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This growing, dispersed body of research reminds us of a few key insights. First, the unconscious parts of the mind are most of the mind, where many of the most impressive feats of thinking take place. Second, emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to things and are the basis of reason.…
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And here’s the thing: Most of the manual labor still being done in our economy seems to be of the kind that’s hard to automate. Notably, with production workers in manufacturing down to about 6 percent of U.S. employment, there aren’t many assembly-line jobs left to lose. Meanwhile, quite a lot of white-collar work currently…
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Board-game that teaches about public health determinants: The Last Straw – Boing Boing