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(via 1979 Revolution – 1979 The Game)
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corwood: In 1948, John Cage joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, where he regularly worked on collaborations with Merce Cunningham. Around this time, he visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An anechoic chamber is a room designed in such a way that the walls, ceiling and floor will absorb all sounds made in…
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Light summer reading, Ethics And Game Design.
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Beating the whiskey shortage
jkottke: If distillers can’t keep up with the current and growing worldwide demand for bourbon, we may have to turn to rum instead. You can buy some old-ass rum, which, after being distilled from molasses or sugar cane, has sat around in barrels for long periods of time, for relatively small sums of money: El…
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lachicanarosie: robertvaladez: Diego Rivera y Mario Moreno “Cantiflas”. Epic
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personalfactory: TBT (Timing Belt Tank) by Geir Video
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‘There Will Be No World Cup’: Brazil on the Brink
‘There Will Be No World Cup’: Brazil on the Brink For people just tuning in, the idea that people in Brazil would be protesting the 2014 World Cup makes about as much sense as New Yorkers’ rebelling against pizza. And yet here we are, less than one month before the start of the Cup, and…
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The mini-saga of American Giant’s struggle with success offers an object lesson in what happens when internet-fueled demand clashes with the constraints of manufacturing a physical product — especially when the promise behind that product is durability and craftsmanship, and the decimated American apparel manufacturing base is being tapped to fulfill that promise. (via The…
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smithsonianlibraries: Images taken from the chapter on printing in v.7 (1769) of the plate section of French philosopher, art critic and writer Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie.
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Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did. I don’t think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson. Life is mostly just learning how to lose. Brian K. Vaughan; Saga (via sagacomic)