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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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On Apple & Beats
dbreunig: Perhaps the best way to think about Apple’s acquisition of Beats is to think about Disney’s acquisition of Marvel. Here’s what The New York Times had to say: The brooding Marvel characters tend to be more popular with boys — an area where Disney could use help. While the likes of “Hannah Montana” and…
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[Cornell psychologist James Cutting’s] experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. He points out that the most reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought by five or six wealthy and influential collectors in the late 19th century. The preferences of these men bestowed prestige on certain works, which made…
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prostheticknowledge: 3D Video Capture With Three Kinects Proof-of-concept mixed-reality demo by Oliver Kreylos of a real-time 3D avatar created from 3 Kinects, placed within a virtual space – video embedded below: I just moved all my Kinects back to my lab after my foray into experimental mixed-reality theater a week ago, and just rebuilt my…