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npr: In Helsinki, sports facilities pop up all over the place, sometimes in some pretty odd nooks and crannies. One bomb shelter hosts an archery club, another an underground swimming pool and an ice hockey rink. Though they hardly need it, there’s a national plan in Finland to get people to sit less. It reminds…
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the-paintrist: lostprofile: DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE OF WORLD WAR I Modern art, wartime strategy and perceptual psychology converged during World War I, giving rise to dazzle camouflage. Unlike traditional camouflage, which attempted to decrease a ship’s visibility by painting it the same colors as it surroundings, dazzle’s skewed, asymmetric, clashing lines made impossible to determine a ship’s…
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Authenticity in the Digital Age
ourrisd: What happens to the notion of place when objects are created and disseminated online? As makers and consumers, are we willing to accept the global, hybrid aesthetic that has developed in our increasingly digital world? These are some of the questions raised by Associate Professor of Industrial Design Paolo Cardini in an interesting opinion piece…
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Just because man’s need for tools is so obvious, we must guard ourselves against over-stressing the role of stone tools hundreds of thousands of years before they became functionally differentiated and efficient. In treating tool-making as central to early man’s survival, biologists and anthropologists for long underplayed, or neglected, a mass of activities in which…
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personalfactory: Print to build, joint collection by ollé gellért “One important feature of the design is that you do not have to screw or glue the parts. It is possible to build furniture, installations, partitions and anything else. It only depends on your creativity. With these experimental objects I wanted to draw attention to the…
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Moss and misunderstandings
smalllandmarks: I have not been unhappy for ten thousand years.During the day I laugh and during the night I sleep.My favourite cooks prepare my meals,my body cleans and repairs itself,and all my work goes well.—Leonard Cohen, from I Have Not Lingered In European Monasteries Some days I stare at a screen and some days I…
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PSA for my fellow white people
medusa-seduce-ya: cursethecosmos: castameresweaters: Latino/Latina: originating from the Carribean, South or Central America. Gender neutral term (in English) is usually written as latinx. Sentence: María was born in Ecuador, so she is Latina. Hispanic: Spanish-speaking. Sentence: José was born in Brazil, so he is NOT Hispanic, since his country’s official language is Portugese, but he IS considered…