May 2009
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“Twitter is in dire need of a way to filter content from followers. Even in the...”
– On Spymaster’s virality — socialuxe
May 30th
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Best Link Ever! God, Can You Hear the Internet? →
Joel Holmberg’s Yahoo Answers profile. Holmberg asks fellow Yahoo’ers irreverent questions that walk the line between poignance and hilarity.
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New Criteria for New Media →
An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities.
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May 23rd
Why are architects' websites so badly designed? →
Architects like to picture themselves at the top of the design pyramid - the all-rounders who can design anything from a city to an earring. So why can’t they design their own websites?
May 23rd
“Designer Siobhan Keaney once said to me that ‘designers learn in their twenties,...”
– 10,000 hours of graphic design?
May 23rd
langer: There’s nothing worse than when your iPhone receives new mail before the Gmail Notifier does and you think you have a new text so you stand up because that’s the only way to get your phone out of the pocket of your tight pants and then you’re standing there at your desk checking your phone when you realize it’s just a Facebook notification email that was waiting for you in another tab all...
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Long Portrait: Noah Kalina (via Vimeo)
May 19th
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“Through the influence of the media and technology on our world, our lives are...”
– Conditional Design - Conditional Design
May 19th
May 19th
“Never create when you can copy and paste.”
– Clayton Cubitt
May 17th
“WolframAlpha, on the other hand, is like a roomful of idiot savants. Each knows...”
– WolframAlpha’s big problem
May 17th
“The ’90s invented nostalgia. Or at least nostalgia as we commonly now know...”
– A Mosquito, My Libido - Fimoculous.com
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Art International Radio - Marcel Duchamp (1962) →
Duchamp explains the readymade! - defines art! - as he speaks with Richard Hamilton and George Heard Hamilton. Originally broadcast by the BBC, October 20, 1962.
May 16th
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May 15th
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Last Day Dream (via Vimeo)
May 15th
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May 15th
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jQuery Masonry →
matthewb: Useful plugin by David DeSandro: Think of Masonry as the flip side of CSS floats. Where as floats arrange elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges them vertically then horizontally. The result leaves no vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall. similar to what suprb did for grid-a-licious
May 15th
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David Lynch Presents his 121-part ‘Interview Project’
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Blog Buzz or Art News? Jonah Peretti Punks Ashton... →
Jonah Peretti punks Ashton Kutcher by pretending to be an outraged twitter fan who didn’t have one of his tweets returned, and Kutcher calls him to discuss the matter. The prank follows a lineage of previous like minded Peretti works — blackpeopleloveus.com, a satirical website dedicated to assuaging white guilt, the nike sweatshop emails, a series of correspondence in which Peretti debates with...
May 13th
May 13th
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SORE THUMB BY WADE SHOTTER Video by Fujiya & Miyagi - MySpace Video
May 12th
“Geek” is merely a foil for the more difficult to pronounce “pariah”, a social...”
– Matt Langer:
May 12th
“It is easy to fall back on clichés about the end of history and the post-modern...”
– The New New Typography
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One plus one equals three
May 11th
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ice crystals being lit by polarized light, then photographed with a polarizing filter. ice flow 01 on Flickr
May 11th
The current issue of Blueprint Magazine (issue 279) has a comment piece on the growth in ‘self-published architectural criticism’ by Tim Abrahams, the magazine’s associate editor. Arguing that ‘many of these blogs are purely indulgent retrospection’, Abrahams cites things magazine as a prime offender in this new era of digital navel-gazing, a self-contained...
May 11th
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“In Freudian terms, anybody with a large collection of Star Wars figurines is...”
– The Transient, Digital Fetish — Llewellyn Hinkes
May 10th
Tate Papers ISSUE 11 Spring 2009 →
Tate is a leading centre for research in the arts and in the field of caring for the collection. Tate’s research programme aims to support these varied activities by encouraging innovative projects…
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“Here, in other words, is a long-range backstory—a device that, in the Hollywood...”
– Highly Illogical: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker
May 8th
“Take the Enron “E” designed by Paul Rand. Prior to the massive corruption...”
– When Bad Things Happen to Good Logos
May 8th