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January 30 2012
January 29 2012
Letters of Note: I know what love is
"Love is a seeking for a way of life; the way that cannot be followed alone; the resonance of all spiritual and physical things. Children are not only of flesh & blood—children may be ideas, thoughts, emotions. The person of the one who is loved is a form composed of a myriad mirrors reflecting and illuminating the powers and thoughts & the emotions that are w/in you, & flashing another kind of light from within. No words or deeds may encompass it. Friendship is another form of love—more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting & acceptance of things like thunderclouds & grass & the clean granite of reality. Art is both love & friendship, & understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking & giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the of the world; the…"
RT @banglab: Arizona and Chile: Concealing history in the classroom - http://t.co/OWa3Rvf6
RT @SFMOMA: "The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art." - Jackson Pollock, born 100 ...
"#whOWNSpace: #whOWNSpace GREENPOINT: Observe, Diagram, Intervene" http://t.co/7acDouj8 /cc @tealtan /via @quilian https://t.co/oWrOX3X7
"Back to the Futurist: Noah Raford" includes slide deck from "The Future of Cities: Three scenarios for urban futures" http://t.co/JtZjXYtJ
RT @futuryst: Metropolis of Tomorrow: Beautiful collection of city futures imagery http://t.co/SJyR0w5H /via @ehooge @remmid
RT @futuryst: A Murmuration of Drones http://t.co/xlw8xbhN @chris23 #designfiction cf. gorgeous video of the real thing http://t.co/bpNddJ9W
RT @brainpicker: What five-year-old Albert Einstein can teach us about serendipity and the filter bubble of information http://t.co/2YAkbLDN
"Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give…" —Ansel Adams, letter to C. Wright http://t.co/qB7zMVne /@fchimero
MURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
"CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics: …"George Steiner, a certain idea of knowledge | Presseurop (English)
"[Q] You do not consider yourself to be a creator? [A] No, there should not be confusion over these roles. Critics, commentators, and exegetes, even the most gifted ones, are still light years away from creators. We do not fully understand the intimate sources of creation. For example, imagine this scene which happened in Berne... A group of children are on a picnic outing with their schoolteacher, who sits them down in front of a viaduct, and watches while they attempt to draw it. Then she looks over the shoulder of one kid, and he has drawn boots on the pillars! Ever since then, all world’s viaducts have been on the march. The name of the child was Paul Klee. Creation changes everything that it contemplates, with only a few lines creators show us everything that was already there. What is the mystery that triggers creation? I wrote Grammars of Creation to understand it. But at the end of my life, I still don’t understand."
RT @alaindebotton: Best examples of 'secular' chapels: Rothko Chapel, Texas, Bruder Chapel, Peter Zumthor, Germany. A fascinating tradition.
You Want Smarter, More Collaborative Students? First, Fix The Tables | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
"Everyone lauds the benefits of collaboration, and yet students usually sit apart from one another, stuck behind their individual desks. The Dutch designers Rianne Makkink & Jurgen Bey have updated the classic trestle table into a flexible system that stretches to accommodate group projects. One or two trestle desks can be combined with a larger tabletop to form an elongated work surface. The longest table can also be used as a vertical or horizontal easel, with the metal ridge used for joining the tables together doubling as a utensil holder. The extension pieces, made from high-pressure laminate, can be folded and stacked into a colourful display when not in use. Brilliant--and just the thing to help foster early collaboration--but sadly not yet a reality."An Anatomy of Uncriticism: What happens to design when we’re afraid to take on our sacred cows?
"three categories of popular practice that seem largely uncriticized…living legends…too good to be criticized: the power of intentions…the power of happy. In a recent talk at AIGA Chicago, Alice Twemlow, the chair of the design- criticism M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts (where I also teach), argued that criticism does the most good when it moves from talking about design to talking about society and the world… Should critics be silenced by economic success? By the limits of their own geography and experience? If they were, design could turn into an online popularity contest, about nothing more than what gets the most retweets… …if criticism is to be constructive, it has to take on the Apples, not Snow White as represented by an apple with a bite out of it."
There's gold in them thar canyons! "Scraping the $40,000 Ceiling at New York City Private Schools" http://t.co/3yHds8Qb
David Skok: Aggregation is deep in journalism’s DNA » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Henry Luce’s Time started as a full-fledged aggregator almost 89 years ago. A quick visit to the library confirmed his statements. Sure enough, all 29 pages of the black and white weekly — its signature red-border cover not yet developed — were packed with advertisements and aggregation. This wasn’t just rewrites of the week’s news; it was rip-and-read copy from the day’s major publications — The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, and the New York World, to name a few." "Because new-market disruptions initially attract those that aren’t traditional consumers of The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, these incumbent organizations feel little pain or threat. So they stay the course on content, competing on “quality” against these new-market disruptors." "We’ve been here before. The question is not, how aggregation is ruining journalism, but how traditional journalism will respond to the aggregation."
"Systems literacy is the great literacy of the 21st Century" +other notes from an Alice Taylor talk: http://t.co/nYOBkf5J
RT @Bopuc: We paint the world with meaning, and believe this illusion is it's natural color. / All things end. Knowing this, how can you ...
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