August 2009
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“The quickest way to kill a concept is to call it “utopian.” This is what the...”
– Is There Bauhaus in IKEA?
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WatchDenis Dutton
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“If you found yourself locked up against your will in a psychiatric ward, you...”
– Have psychiatric wards changed? - Times Online
I’ve always loved the idea of the Rosenhan experiment
“We need a Ronald Reagan of attention, someone to inspire us away from the fight...”
– A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention
WatchVideo: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote - At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“I’m not going to change … You need to learn to care… don’t be stupid… cause hype’s not about you”
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“Twitter feels like conversation, ephemeral, written on water, designed to fade...”
– russell davies: written in water, written on paper
Guest Hosting Cindy Sherman →
John Grande, an artist and former printer for Annie Liebovitz and Jack Pierson, among other well-known photographers, has made a series of paintings based on Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills….
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“If the technology is to be used for the betterment of human life, we must...”
– A Manifesto for Slow Communication
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“Newmark’s claim of almost total disinterest in wealth dovetails with the...”
– Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
“Fair-weather forces (water level)”, 2008 by... →
“Fair-weather forces (water level)”, 2008 by Germaine Koh.
Stainless steel stanchions and electronic and mechanical systems with velvet ropes moving up and down in relation to water level,…
Wrenchmonkey Motorcycles →
Wrenchmonkeys is one bad-ass shop in Copenhangen, Denmark. If you don’t want to feel bad-ass when you ride a motorcycle then these bad-ass motorcycles aren’t for you. This isn’t your…
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“As search engines begin to incorporate more and more opinion data into their...”
– Sentiment Analysis Takes the Pulse of the Internet - NYTimes.com
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“Little stories are the internet’s native and ideal art form.
Apart from the...”
– kung fu grippe - Making the Clackity Noise
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“It’s the deep, attentive engagement that the Web is draining away, as we...”
– Slanted and enchanted
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“Twenty years in the future, will designing buildings no longer be a part of...”
– INTO THE LOOP: Architectural narratives: between nostalgia and a hard place
‘COCKSUCKER BLUES’ SURFACES ON WEB. →
Notoriously banned documentary, Cocksucker Blues, is available to be streamed in 9 parts on the web for what we’re sure will be a very limited time. We have no idea if it’s good, bad,…
“The Internet is a Warholian idea, his friends say. It’s a place of...”
– What Would Andy Warhol Think of the Internet?
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WatchYellow Chair Stories is a project by Anab Jain at the Royal College of Art. It is a “live service design intervention” conducted outside her apartment. She placed a yellow chair and a sign that read “My Wi-Fi network is open for neighbours and passersby. Free access from the yellow chair.” What resulted was an interesting and fun study on community, public spaces and network technology which...
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WatchU B U W E B - Film & Video: Relational Art: Is It An Ism? (2004)
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“The Futurists would have loved YouTube, with its swift delivery of pornographic...”
– things magazine
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“Cupcakes are the evil foodstuff of the infantilisation of rational human beings...”
– infinite thØught: cupcakes must die!
Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent gave a talk at TED Global the other week suggesting that rather than expand our social circle, modern communications strengthen our core relationships. … 80% of phone calls are typically to four people… People are using communications tools, she says, to break the isolation that institutions impose on them - a process she rather grandly calls...
IMG MGMT: gRAdIeNtBOW-2-your-masters →
Guest post by: PETRA CORTRIGHT
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“I hate the term “outsider art,” as some touch of mental illness is a necessity...”
– Panning for Gold as Reading and the Creativity of Outsiders