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newyorker: Sasha Frere-Jones on the release of Beyoncé’s new album: http://nyr.kr/1fBj7Ys “It’s not surprising that ‘Beyoncé’ is excellent (the pros often work better faster); what is exciting is watching the minor rearrangement within the Knowles-Carter universe, and then seeing the rippling effects throughout the critical community. It is now painfully clear that, just as there…
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Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention
Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention azspot: GIVEN ALL THIS, I want to conclude with some thoughts about teaching patience as a strategy. The deliberate engagement of delay should itself be a primary skill that we teach to students. It’s a very old idea that patience leads to skill, of…
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blech: I’ve already posted some scans of Design Drawing One by John Rolfe, taken from the Serendipity Project, but I returned to it because I wanted to quote Wayne Burrows’ commentary: …the intention here is clearly to present a selection of neutral design exercises for students to carry out, but the result also serves as a…
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theatlanticcities: “Bridle’s Drone Shadow Handbook [PDF] provides detailed instructions on how to sketch the outline of a drone – the imagined shadow of such an aircraft overhead – on a city street near you. The book, which I read about on Policy Mic, enables anyone to replicate one. It’s an ongoing art project for Bridle, who wants to bring…
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(via Sculpture on the moon: Paul van Hoeydonck’s Fallen Astronaut.) Making art that satisfied both van Hoeydonck’s futurist aesthetic and Scott’s somber philosophical goals proved a delicate process. “I am not an easy man to work with; I like to work alone,” van Hoeydonck confesses. Building on the concept of his Astros, he wanted to…
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The PixelTron
The PixelTron gamedesignerben: The PixelTron is a project Liz and I created for the 2012 Northern Spark outdoor lighting festival in Minneapolis. Originally called the PixelTron150, it is a 15 x 10 grid of pixels, each measuring 6” on a side, leading to an overall screen size of 7.5’ x 5’ x 8”, housed in…
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nativepunxunite: “I come from the people who introduced you to guerrilla warfare and had a fifth of the us army searching for my people. My parents have created an intellectual asdzáá (woman) that is just trying to break the barriers of assimilation and the push of western thinking. I am a product of peaceful protests…