February 2012
17 posts
“Others’ pictures are more interesting than those we can make.”
– In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still...”
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
“scientific advances have led to a situation where all the remaining problems are...”
– Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
“the raison d’être of a college is to nourish a world of intellectual culture;...”
– What Is College For? - NYTimes.com
“The next edition of the São Paulo Biennial will focus on “the...”
– 30th São Paulo Biennial, 2012
Serious question: Isn’t this just another way of saying “everything”?
“CNBC’s Zac Bissonnette recently wrote to me saying that what he hates about...”
– Weird art-valuation justifications of the day, Sarah Thornton edition | Felix Salmon
“Act Two: The Post-Apocalyptic Hell-Scape
This is the part of Detroit...”
– A DIY Kit For Making A Detroit Documentary | Changing Gears
“Data” has become the default word used to describe the constantly generated,...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
“But the novelty of vicarious participation in emotional life always contained...”
– The Truth Is Accidental < PopMatters
January 2012
34 posts
“In times when the exchange with the world largely takes place on the Internet,...”
– 046: Boris Groys: Google: Words beyond Grammar, Documenta 13
Love this guy. “The struggle for a utopian ideal of the free flow of information—the free migration of liberated words through the totality of social space,” is the best definition of Google I’ve ever read.
“I guess to make a box that’s a joy to open, you have to open a lot of boxes....”
– We used to build cathedrals, now we open boxes.
Apple Packing Is So Good Because They Employ A Dedicated Box Opener | Gizmodo UK
“How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
imaginaryimageblog:
Rick Ross smelling Yankee Candles at a Cracker Barrel
“Works of art are just ways to pay attention to different things, and to...”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
“So you may be like, “Um, I’m an artist of the minimalist school, and so I go to...”
– The Believer - Interview with Laurie Anderson
“Criticism is doubt informed by curiosity and a deep knowledge of a discipline...”
– On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut Instinct :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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“1 trillion – The number of video playbacks on YouTube.
140 – The number of...”
– Internet 2011 in numbers | Royal Pingdom
“By observing how popular the same song became in different worlds, we could...”
– The Myth of Common Sense: Why The Social World Is Less Obvious Than It Seems « Freakonomics
“What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a...”
– Andrew Sullivan: How Obama’s Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast
Here’s what I like about this guy. Long game.
“There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this...”
– Will Brand
Hirsts Spotted at Gagosian
“Authenticity is a paltry standard by which to appraise an idea or a work of art...”
– Leon Wieseltier, Against Identity (via austinkleon)
“The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis...”
– The Uncanny Valley of “Electrocuted Squirrel”
“It’s too often assumed that if you want to talk about architecture, then...”
– Geoff Manaugh, BLDG BLOG Book
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...