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The Square – The New Yorker
The Square – The New Yorker An essay on Malevich’s painting, The Black Square. It’s worth your time.
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Sunset is that rare game endeavours to challenge players to be entertained by something other than action. It wants us to engage a higher level of our minds, the part reigned by curiosity, empathy, and analytical thought. Chad Sapieha http://business.financialpost.com/fp-tech-desk/post-arcade/sunset-review-flawed-and-not-always-fun-but-also-smart-daring-and-worth-playing?__lsa=bbe2-a286 (via taleoftales)
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additivism: Try Your New Face Before You Buy It – MirrorMe3D 3D Prints Cosmetic Surgery Results Prior to Surgery When you go shopping for shoes, you try them on. Before you buy a new suit, you also try it on. When you are in the market for a new car, I’m willing to bet you…
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Annoyed GIF artists pestered by lunatic
brucesterling: *This just in from Hexeosis, a Tumblr GIF guy who very obviously makes his own material and never copies anything. http://hexeosis.tumblr.com WHY TUMBLR’S DMCA POLICIES ARE RIDICULOUS AND DISINGENUOUS Yesterday myself and several other GIF artists received a notice from Tumblr regarding copyright infringement. The letter’s tone of voice is unnecessarily condescending and contains…
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The future always comes looking like a toy. Benedict Evans, In mobile, disruption comes from above Evans goes on to say, regarding cell phones: The tech industry is very used to the idea that incumbents always laugh at disruption because though it’s cheap, it’s also crap, not realizing that history tells us it will get better.…
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Outgoing Cisco CEO predicts mayhem
wolfliving: *Epic struggle as Silicon Valley launches a ubiquitous power-grab. http://www.impactlab.net/2015/06/11/ciscos-ceo-40-percent-of-companies-are-dying/ “Beginning Monday in San Diego, Cisco Live, Cisco’s giant customer conference, was the last time outgoing CEO John Chambers would impart his vision in a keynote speech. “And was it ever a speech, filled with fire-and-brimstone predictions. “The upshot: Chambers, Cisco’s CEO of…
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syfycity: Have a gif, /r/dune
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This is San Francisco now. Fueled by so much one-upmanship and relentless competitiveness and insecurity. It’s a social world designed, literally, by people who came up playing Dungeons and Dragons, who relish intensely complex systems and arcane rules. The trick to enjoying yourself in San Francisco is not to have very much at stake. Engineers…
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inezandvinoodh: Our show @fotografiska in Stockholm is magical thanks to #REDcamera @instajarred @makroop @bjearld @sarahhoov @thecollectiveshift @gagosiangallery @ottoa @jonbar kisses iv
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hyperallergic: Icelandic Scientists Find Link Between Creativity and Mental Disorders I will have to read this to the root. The pendulum continues swinging on this relationship. And, of course, vanGogh offered as a poster child to perpetuate the story.