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sfmoma: This weekend, get social and host a salon! Today’s #PlayArtfully challenge is in part inspired by Tom Marioni, whose piece FREE BEER (The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art), pictured above.
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This paradox between our affluence as consumers and our precariousness as workers poses economic, political, and moral conundrums. If we can produce more with less, and workers become redundant, who will buy the goods? A robot can make a mobile phone but it cannot purchase one. Workers are also consumers. Fire your workers, your profits…
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screw stardust; be iron instead. be the element that creates stardust. be the element that causes the largest stars to explode. be the element that is strong enough to collapse an entire universe. -k.m | supernovae (via poemsforwolves)
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In Blade Runner, Rachael silently starts to cry when Deckard proves to her that she is a replicant. The silent grief over the loss of her “humanity,” […] or, [in the simple case of any human being who reflects on human existence] – the eternal gnawing doubt over whether I am truly human or just…
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blech: Play Artfully adverts at Embarcadero Muni station, captured (somewhat wonkily) by the iPhone’s panorama and me wandering up and down the platform while avoiding trains and waiting passengers. The games are part of SFMOMA’s On The Go programme, which is keeping the museum in the public eye during the two and a half years…
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instructables: Readymake: Marcel Duchamp Chess Pieces (3D Recreations from Photographs) by scottkildall
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ilovecharts: I fixed your sportsball chart. — Dangersquirrel
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1900mm: The X-Files: Kill Switch ‘I keep a lot of crap. This is an ad from TV Guide (remember TV Guide?) from February 15, 1998.’ William Gibson and Tom Maddox collaborated on an episode of the X-Files called “Kill Switch.”
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moma: MoMA staff are rooting for the US in the employee lounge!
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Paper to pixels
jkottke: Nice little video essay on information theory and Claude Shannon, “the most important man you’ve probably never heard of”.