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typicalhope: GIFsizetest-1/400×348-1.036MB wow.Tumblr can upload GIFs in this size. thanks to Admiral Potato and Tumblr! http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/post/83602107169/norb-1-and-2
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humanoidhistory: The Moon, circa 1610, illustrated by Galileo Galilei.
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With the advent of computers everything has become more and more conceptual and we’ve lost touch with the realm of the tactile. Calligraphy is a way of getting back in touch… Jean-Louis Cohen, quoted in this mini-documentary about how French schools teach handwriting (via austinkleon)
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Why you should stop taking pictures on your phone – and learn to draw
Why you should stop taking pictures on your phone – and learn to draw Before the invention of photography, people used to draw far more than they do today. It was an active necessity. But in the mid-19th century, photography killed drawing. It became something only ‘artists’ would ever do, so Ruskin – passionate promoter…
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cyborges: “This is the labyrinth of Crete. This is the labyrinth of Crete whose center was the Minotaur. This is the labyrinth of Crete whose center was the Minotaur that Dante imagined as a bull with a man’s head in whose stone net so many generations were as lost as María Kodama and I were…
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The phone company gave birth to Unix. Now there is no phone company and Unix runs on your phone. The Great Works of Software (via azspot)
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A few hundred feet from the Pyramid, I bent down, scooped up a handful of sand and then, a little farther away, let it silently spill. Under my breath I said: I am modifying the Sahara. The deed was minimal, but the words, which were scarcely ingenious, were exact, and I considered that I had…
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floresuprm: Upcoming Workshop – New Digital Genres: Writing for Social Media #elit #digped #PRTESOL On Saturday, May 24, 2014 I’ll be offering a workshop at the Southern PR TESOL conference…