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How the “Do What You Love” Mantra Enables Exploitation
technoccult: Klint Finley Miya Tokumitsu writes about the myth of “Do What You Love” (DWYL): One consequence of this isolation is the division that DWYL creates among workers, largely along class lines. Work becomes divided into two opposing classes: that which is lovable (creative, intellectual, socially prestigious) and that which is not (repetitive, unintellectual, undistinguished).…
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denverstreetart: This @mac_arte x #Retna colab reminds me I need to do some roof surfing on Broadway. | #wynwood #streetart #elmac http://ift.tt/Kus0Yr
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It should be no surprise that unpaid interns abound in fields that are highly socially desirable, including fashion, media, and the arts. These industries have long been accustomed to masses of employees willing to work for social currency instead of actual wages, all in the name of love. Excluded from these opportunities, of course, is…
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Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi (Wired UK)
Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi (Wired UK) University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as Micro Python and…
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brucesterling: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/sets/72157636182707015/ *Here at Maker Faire Rome, I got my hands on one of the newly released Arduino Intel Galileo control boards — hardware specifically designed for technology artists.
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prostheticknowledge: The Machine To Be Another – Gender Swap Art + tech experiment where particpants view themselves in the body of their opposite sex using a camera mounted Oculus Rift each – video embedded below [features nudity]: Gender Swap is an experiment that uses themachinetobeanother.org/ system as a platform for embodiment experience (a neuroscience technique…
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Notes from “The Robber Bride” by Margaret Atwood
or a different way of thinking, because thought could be a technology Excerpt From Atwood, Margaret. “The Robber Bride.”
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Notes from “The Robber Bride” by Margaret(
Yet history is not a true palindrome, thinks Tony. We can’t really run it backwards and end up at a clean start. Too many of the pieces have gone missing; also we know too much, we know the outcome. Historians are the quintessential voyeurs, noses pressed to Time’s glass window. They can never actually be…
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(Beta) Media Computation with Spreadsheets
(Beta) Media Computation with Spreadsheets This is a new project for transforming pictures into spreadsheets, and back again, letting you do Media Computation with Excel or OpenOffice Calc. This is like this Nifty Assignment by Cigas from 2007, but with support for common image formats (like JPEG and PNG) using an external tool. Blog post…
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animalavalanche: The Conway’s Game of life Three simple rules: Each cell looks around in its Moore neighborhood (that is, its 8 immediate neighbors) and decide whether to stay in the same state, become alive, or die according to how many alive neighbors it has: if at least 2 of the neighboring cells are alive, stay…