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playfulsystems: ucresearch: When art meets engineering The GIFs above show Metropolis II, a kinetic sculpture of the modern bustling city. The project — by artist Chris Burden — took nearly four years to create and features 1,100 cars zipping around 18 roadways, including one six-laner. “The noise and level of activity are both mesmerizing and anxiety provoking,”…
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Skillshare: Teacher Stories: Ellen Lupton
Skillshare: Teacher Stories: Ellen Lupton notational: skillshare: Meet Ellen Lupton, author, a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist. Her book Thinking with Type is used by students, designers, and educators worldwide. Ellen teaches a free online class on Redesigning your Business Card, with over 7,000 students… I’ve followed her work for years now.…
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theatlantic: The New, Old Way to Tell Stories: With Input from the Audience Watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries—a YouTube show that uses a video diary to retell a contemporary version of Pride and Prejudice—is like opening a bag of potato chips: You can’t stop at just one. The series purports to be the “real” video…
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But Task Rabbit is more than a hip, Web-based temp agency. It’s the reserve army of the unemployed made flesh. What’s diabolically brilliant and emblematic about the company is that prospective errand-runners bid against one another for jobs. To get an assignment, an aspiring Rabbit offers to do the chore for less money than he…