January 2012
2 posts
October 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
June 2011
2 posts
Watchnoahkalina:
new studio
May 2011
5 posts
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– Jonathan Franzen’s essay on social media, on ‘liking’ as a pitiful, narcissistic dilution of real experience, seems to have been met with wide acclaim; it is quoted everywhere, it seems immediately, obviously true, it resonates. Many of its points are fascinating, but most interesting is the claim...
To borrow an image from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, trying to remove information from the internet is like trying to unstir the jam from semolina. And that’s the second thing. Not just that information can’t be removed but that, corporate and personal alike, it’s being gathered as never before - and to gather information is so close to distributing it as to make no difference....
April 2011
4 posts
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
3 posts
Flavors.me Blog: Q&A with Artist and Flavors User... →
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December 2010
2 posts
Peter Stichbury The Proteus Effect
by Genevieve Allison
Tracy Williams Ltd
In Peter Stichbury’s first solo show at Tracy Williams, The Proteus Effect, the artist’s characteristically pristine paintings and prints of typal plastic looking faces line the walls, often reproducing the same figure in several identical works. His painterly style, if you’re not familiar with it, is characterized...
November 2010
3 posts
Blink.
pebbleshooper:
“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In...”
– Bruce Lee
October 2010
4 posts
September 2010
4 posts
August 2010
6 posts
Jeremy Bailenson on Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality
Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, strategically enhancing or hiding features and nonverbal signals in real-time. Jeremy...
July 2010
3 posts
“Jim Jarmusch once told me, “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If...”
– Tom Waits
June 2010
5 posts
On Distraction
One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.
The obsession with current events is relentless. We are made to feel...
