February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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This short film about Philip Glass and Lou Reed at Occupy Wall Street will give you goose bumps – an artful take on what happened after the final performance of Glass’s Satyragraha at the Metropolitan Opera, when he used the human microphone to read a libretto about Gandhi’s activism in South Africa (via)
November 2011
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The Title Design of Saul Bass | CH Bearstar →
October 2011
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Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the... →
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Robots in red
Everything this guy does is red awesome.
“Visually, I wanted to create a robot character that easily exploited the silliest 1950’s sci-fi tropes, but with a style more reminiscent of clunky toys from the early 1980’s. It just so happened that I’ve always thought audio cassettes look like robot faces as well, which seemed like an appropriate stylistic choice given my previous...
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CLOT Ripsoff Wintercheck Factory "WTF"
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ORIGINAL: Wintercheck Factory William Wallet RIPOFF: CLOT “C.R.E.A.M.” Wallet
You might know my friend Kristen who runs Wintercheck Factory cause I do post about her often. She designs out of a small studio in Brooklyn. She’s smart and has a knack for creating great products that are smart.
So it upsets me when someone like her gets completely ripped off.
Case in...
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Industrial Design Saturday
10 steps to running a product business
The Wintercheck Factory only designs products that they can manufacture in the United States. Photo of NEW Product: Nesting Steel Shot Cups.
10 steps to The Wintercheck Factory process:
Have An Idea
Choose A Material
Source a Manufacturer
Value Engineer the Design
Test A Sample
Review Manufacturer’s Pre-Production Sample
Go Into Production
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Sunday Tech
Looking at his work makes me want to start drawing while listening to mum or Emeralds albums. Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific...
September 2011
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Eat my dust, light speed!
GENEVA — One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity – that nothing can go faster than the speed of light – was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world’s foremost laboratories. European researchers said they clocked an oddball type of subatomic particle called a neutrino going faster than the 186,282 miles per second that has long been...
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Book, Thread’s Not Dead, now in hard cover.
Go to: http://store.gomedia.us/product/thread-s-not-dead-hardcover-book
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August 2011
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IBM Plans To Create Chips That Work Like the Human... →
IBM announced Thursday that it has received $21 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a series of experimental computer chips designed to replicate the human brain’s perceptive, active and cognitive abilities. According to IBM, the “neurosynap…
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