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Examining The Design Process: Clichés and Idea... →
No one can write step-by-step instructions on how to do this — the entire point, after all, is to react, rather than obeying fixed directives — but there are certain steps we can take at the outset of a project that help clear the way to let this process happen:
Start with a sketchbook, not a computer. There was a time when I once suspected that the teachers who tried to impress this point on...
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Nazi 3D films from 1936 discovered →
The Australian film-maker Philippe Mora says he has discovered two 30-minute 3D films shot by propagandists for the Third Reich in 1936, a full 16 years before the format first became briefly popular in the US.
The first of the films, titled So Real You Can Touch It, features shots of sizzling stereoscopic bratwursts on a barbecue while the second, named Six Girls Roll Into Weekend, features...
“That’s why this should be taken seriously, despite how ignorant, trite and...”
– The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
COINTELPRO, LLC.
Why The Daily Is So Yesterday →
marco:
… it’s weird to me, as a long-time internet-only news reader, to pay money2 for a bunch of content I don’t care about. More than half of each issue is sports news, entertainment gossip, ads, and little newspaper games (crosswords, Sudoku, horoscopes), and I need to buy all of that to get the news, editorials, and app reviews that I care about.
Bundling a bunch of stuff I don’t care...
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WatchEcho Lake - Young Silence
Music video shot using the Microsoft Kinect and then processed using Cinder.
Mise en abyme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The term is originally from the French and means “placing into infinity” or “placing into the abyss”.
The modern meaning of the term originates with the author André Gide who used it to describe self-reflexive embeddings in various art-forms and to describe what he himself sought in his work. As examples, Gide cites both paintings such as Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez and...
Mono no aware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Mono no aware (物の哀れ mono no aware?, literally “the pathos of things”), also translated as “an empathy toward things,” or “a sensitivity of ephemera,” is a Japanese term used to describe the awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing. The word is derived from the Japanese word mono, which means...
