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redhousecanada: archiemcphee: This mesmerizing video, produced by tetotetote, introduces us to Yasuo Okazaki, an artisan working in Sendai, Japan who transforms spinning blocks of wood into exquisitely beautiful Kokeshi dolls, a 400-year-old Japanese artistic tradition. Traditional Kokeshi dolls are entirely handmade and have an enlarged head that sits atop a simple, cylindrical trunk with no…
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The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic
The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here – The Atlantic …the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen…. at the museum, it does something magical. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point…
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All social change is speculative fiction because we’ve never seen a world without poverty, never seen a world with total equality, never seen a world without prisons…therefore activism IS speculative fiction, it’s visionary fiction because we are writing a world we’ve never seen but a world we’d like to live in. It’s hard and unapologetic…
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bombmagazine: Coco Fusco, Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, 2013, performance at the Studio Museum in Harlem, courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates.
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brucesterling: *Journalists killed 1992-2015. An interactive graph where you can query each red dot and get an account of the deceased. http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/14/journalist-deaths/index.html
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nevver: 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog Always take the initiative. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. Learn…
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astridloker: Yay! Got my Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules for Writing framed! I have it where I can see it from my computer to keep me writing every day. 😉