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Twenty-Five Good Spanish Comics from the 2010s
Twenty-Five Good Spanish Comics from the 2010s tebeosforyanquis: Hi and welcome to a new tumblr celebrating Spanish comics. I wanted to use this first post, in the late winter of 2015, as an overview of the past five years of Spanish comics, talking about (my necessarily biased and limited choices for) 25 pretty cool comics…
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The closest reference point for this kind of gameplay would be Gone Home, if Gone Home wanted to explore politics and class identity set to a sweeping soundtrack by Austin Wintory (who scored Journey and The Banner Saga) rather than riotgrrl cassette tapes. Then again, perhaps you could call Gone Home a very Tale of…
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emergentfutures: Here’s Why People Trust Human Judgment Over Algorithms You’d think after years of using Google Maps we’d trust that it knows what it’s doing. Still, we think, “Maybe taking the backroads would be faster.” That’s an example of what researchers call “algorithm aversion”: even when an algorithm consistently beats human judgment, people prefer to…
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Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer. UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry | Co.Design | business…
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moma: Stream tonight’s conversation between filmmaker Wim Wenders and longtime collaborator Peter Handke, taking place as part of MoMA Film’s current Wenders retrospective. [Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). 1971. Austria/West Germany. Directed by Wim Wenders. Courtesy of Wim Wenders Stiftung 2014]
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The television entered the living room, framing the cathode ray tube with wood—literally domesticating the technology as furniture in our homes. Early cinema echoed the proscenium arch of the theater as a remediated reference to the history of performance. Visual metaphors and skeuomorphism of legal pads, tape recorders, felt gaming tables create analog analogues to…
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bitch-media: The project that was Lowriders in Space began when author Cathy Camper started thinking about the need for more diverse books for kids. In 2005, Camper was working three part-time jobs, including a gig doing outreach at low-income housing for the local library. The kids who would show up to check out books were a multi-cultural…