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Disarming Corruptor
Disarming Corruptor designingthenewnormal: Disarming Corruptor is a tool for making reversible damage to your STL mesh file. This means you can obliterate it into something totally unrecognisable, share it online under its new guise, and selectively distribute the key code to recipients so they can reverse the damage and retrieve the original object. In a…
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Back [in] the Middle Ages, when artists were craftsmen and belonged to guilds…[a]rt was a job, like glassblowing. With the Renaissance came creative liberation. The artist gained sanction to develop his own character and style. “The more artists disengaged themselves from craftsmen,” write the Wittkowers, “the more they were expected to display—did display—symptoms of behavior…
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High-frequency trading (HFT) accounted for about half of US stock-exchange trades in 2012—approximately 1.6 billion shares a day, according to estimates cited by Bloomberg Businessweek. In many ways, these algorithms mimic human traders’ transactions buying and selling stocks among themselves, though to make trades as quickly as possible, they are equipped with only the most…
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A sad reflection on the art world
A sad reflection on the art world jesuisperdu: towerofsleep: youmightfindyourself: Critics, curators and collectors who have complained recently about how the super-rich are ruining the art market should know better By Julian StallabrassThe Art Newspaper: 05 December 2012 A minor squall has blown up after the American art critic Dave Hickey’s announcement that he has…