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If you’ve never experienced it, “free” just seems like a lower number on a slider that has “half-price” in the middle. But free is not a number. If you paid for your education, you’re likely to understand education in transactional terms. In straightforward economic terms, it means that if you charge some money, you can…
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pitchgrey: technologyisreadytowear: “To create the dress, a 3D-scan of a person’s body forms the basis for a digitally modelled garment, to which the tessellated pattern is applied. The rigidity and behaviour of the final dress can be controlled at this stage by altering the configuration of the triangular hinged mesh: the way the material will…
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CFP: Ages of the Book International Conference 2014
Ages of the Book International Conference 2014 Dates: October 13 -17, 2014 Hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2014 Call for papers The aim of the conference is to bring together specialists from diverse fields of study, such as written and printed culture, visual…
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Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This 14-inch terracotta drum is called “Quantity”, and it’s a days-old work by G. William Webb, now on view in a group show at the little Room East gallery in New York. At first it comes across as a supremely elegant example of modernist formalism – a kind of apotheosis or archetype…