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A new camera from a company called Lytro has been getting a ton of hype in the photography media for a few months. Their “Light Field Camera” is now available in 2 memory sizes (8 and 16 GB). The concept is that the camera is a true point-and-shoot in that “the lens of the camera [...]
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Mary and I are addicted to Mad Men on Netflix streaming (better late than never), but getting close to the end of the 4th season. We watched “The Beautiful Girls” tonight. The mix of comedy and drama was highly entertaining, and a serious departure from the tone of the previous episode. “The Summer Man” introduced [...]
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Here’s a very cool (albeit difficult to understand) graphic that illustrates the creative process (at least for one man): How do you map the path from idea to result? Soon to graduate from the Ringling College of Art and Design, self-described ‘experimenter’ Melike Turgut drew the complex curving path towards a well thought out result. [...]
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The Reconnected Table by Daniel Michel functions as a brilliant critique of easy-to-assemble IKEA furniture, and as a nerdy ode to architects and structural engineers who challenge the concept of function to serve form. I’m thinking mainly of Antonio Gaudi and Buckminster Fuller.
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Found some interesting skin-based artwork by Ariana Page Russell via BoingBoing.
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My brother and I just went to a William Gibson interview (Chicago Humanities Festival: Technology’s Tomorrow: Sci-Fi with William Gibson) at Northwestern University. Through no fault of Gibson’s it was a near disaster: the microphones didn’t work properly and the interviewer was a pretentious mess. Gibson was asked questions about his writing process (something like, [...]
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“Appropriart!” A Graphic about Copyright by Susie Cagle, co-produced by MDF and GIA | Media Democracy Fund
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Here’s an interesting meditation on how old stuff becomes new again, erasing its original history in the process. I especially enjoy the tongue-in-cheek backhanded praise of Mr. “Imma-Let-You-Finish”: Though he may present himself as a crass, arrogant, self-indulgent, pompous, vain, irritating, clueless, and profoundly daft pop star, Kanye West’s video productions present the cabal’s most [...]
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Very interesting talk on what motivates us… RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us – YouTube
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Wow. Can’t believe I made it through this whole movie. It plays as though the director was taking notes while watching cable one night, flipping back and forth between Serenity, The Fifth Element, Children of Men, and The Transporter. In my scenario, he then fed his notes into Final Draft, looked in a mirror and [...]
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