The New Aesthetic: Copyrights (2011- Ongoing)The Google Art Project...
Copyrights (2011- Ongoing)
The Google Art Project (http://www.googleartproject.com/) contains several paintings which have had a blur filter applied to them so as to make them unrecognisable. Google explain this decison stating that they were, ‘required…
"Hey Peter Thiel, instead of whining about the iPhone, Twitter, and internet not being innovative and life-changing enough, why don’t you fix this life-ruining piece of shit company that you crapped into the world?"
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Feel like this year is going to be a rant intensive one.
Fuck Yeah Readmill
Launched! Congrats to Henrik & David, and everybody else on the team.
James Bridle speaking about the New Aesthetic at Web Directions South.
“Waving at the machines”, a 50-minute, 120-slide vector through the idea, an idea that still seems massive and nebulous, but which it is possible to fire a laser through and illuminate some motes. I’m not sure I managed to phrase the camouflage stuff quite right, and the need for an ending always feels like a cop-out, but nevertheless, I cover many of the bases.
Watched the whole thing. It’s like ordering a new pair of glasses for seeing the world.
(Source: vimeo.com)
A state television Egyptian anchor justified Egypt’s renewed crackdown this weekend by pointing to the U.S. crackdowns against Occupy Wall Street and similar crackdowns in Germany.
(via theweekmagazine)
"Your head is a melting pot. You tell all the things you’re listening to to get down and start melting. Trying to be original is kind of a futile thing."
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Tom Waits
"If you go on Tumblr, it feels like half of the internet consists of teenagers wishing they were alive in the 60s. And one thing that I’m writing about for Rookie is about why the 21st century isn’t that bad. It’s like, “We have Miranda July you guys!"
— Tavi NOWNESS (via commedesfuckdwn)
(via commedesfuckdwn)
"Close to 19% of Facebook posts are created on the mobile web experience, while Facebook’s native iPhone, Android, and Blackberry apps only account for about 4% of posts each"
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Highlighted by David Owens in Mobile First
Thought this was one of the more interesting facts presented in Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First.
"Lacking any real vision for its own future, football has allowed television to lead it into the modern age while it itself continues to gaze backwards, still seeing itself as some kind of repository for attitudes towards work, class and community. Never can there have been a British phenomenon so trashy, so plastic and yet so full of a past that was none of those things."
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James Hamilton - War, Football and the Death of the Future
(not sure where I found it, was sitting in an open tab this morning…)
"Needs more love. Years on, I still hear him saying that, and it guides me. Those words get me out of the caves I get myself into. We should care more about our craft because we’re granted an opportunity to contribute to the world. We should care more about what we say because each time we speak, there’s someone there to listen. We should care more about our audiences because they are the ones who give our work value."
The story of how Time, Bloomberg and Newsweek made their cover stories around Steve Job’s passing last week is pretty great. Especially how Bloomberg’s Richard Turley speaks about it.
I’ve become a bit obsessed with pacing and organizing principles this year. For this one I really wanted to keep pictures and words and charts distinct. Initially, I didn’t want any words and pictures combined on pages. The photo essay at the beginning came about after looking at the Steve Jobs Wikiquote page, seeing these little summations of hope, love, destiny, power, work, life, that so resonate. And specifically, his commencement speech at Stanford. And it was reading that, that reminded me so much of Tibor Kalman’s rhetoric in the essay that opens his retrospective Perverse Optimist. So I stole the conceit of words over pictures. Tibor Kalman is my hero, over all others, and to grave-rob from him was…a bit difficult. But when you saw his words coming together over these pictures, it was really moving and lifted you into the issue so effortlessly. I knew it would speak to people, really get inside peoples’ heads. You can’t do that too often in magazines. So I stole. I’m sorry Tibor.
That Bloomberg made everything from beginning to end between 8 pm-8 am is more than impressive.
