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Someone must have spotted him on the show’s morning rerun, because Twitter was beginning to light up in confusion and amazement. “YouTube has frozen the count,” he said. “They usually do that when people are hitting it so fast they go, ‘Wait, this might be bots.’ ” He seemed really pleased with how this experiment…
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booksfromthefuture: The Refusal of Time – William Kentridge
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A study of 1,400 students between the 6th and 12th grades—mostly between the ages of 11 and 18—found something similar: Teenage girls play all kinds of video games. The results of that study were announced by Rosalind Wiseman and Ashly Burch in March at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Teenage Girls Are Playing Video Games.…
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thenearsightedmonkey: Dear Students, This is what the hell we’re talmbout. Prof. SETI (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the…
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Reading Sol LeWitt’s Artist Books as Comics
goodcomicsbykim: Serial compositions are multipart pieces with regulated changes. The differences between the parts are the subject of the composition. If some parts remain constant it is to punctuate the changes. The entire work would contain subdivisions which could be autonomous but which comprise the whole. The autonomous parts are units, rows, sets or any…
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thethirdmind: Sol Lewitt, Cock Fight Dance, Rizzoli, 1980. A series of photographs of chickens fighting. “LeWitt has never forsaken the fundamental approach that he developed in the 1960s, emphasizing ideas over psychological expression… Over the years, however, his work has grown more complex in its effect and more complicated in its execution. The work from…
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Like the creator of an artist’s book who manipulates an Exacto knife to make delicate cutouts in heavy white Italia paper and painstakingly sews the pages together, the writer of an electronic text is intensely aware of the entwining of intellectual, physical, and technological labor that creates the text as a material object. “Print Is…
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p-dpa: Text in the Book Format, Keith Smith (2004) This book is not about binding, computers, design, typography or the history of books, but the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format not to distract, but assist the written word. Text in the Book Format examines the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format to…