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[article] NYTimes: The Road to Clarity by Joshua... →

“So, what do you see?” Martin Pietrucha I asked, turning around in the driver’s seat of his mint green Ford Taurus. It was a cold day in January, and we were parked in the middle of a mock highway set on the campus of Pennsylvania State University in State College. Pietrucha is a jovial, 51-year-old professor of highway engineering. His tone was buoyant as he nodded toward the edge of the oval...

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Music Infographics →

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[event] A Proposition by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Maps... →

January 16-17: Hans Ulrich Obrist Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are presented to the public,...

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Sissel Tolaas Multimeida Interview Extras →

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The E-Memory Revolution →

The rise of digital records of daily life means unmatched access to our pasts, presenting both challenge and opportunity to libraries (via Library Journal)

Dec 14th

MAS walking tour (Saturday)

Keeping Off the Streets: East Side Sat, December 19, 10am – 12pm Transit Museum Store, Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY (map) In the “post-modernist era”, New York City planning principles encouraged innovative new public spaces to be maintained by private entities. These new spaces typically offer shelter and shortcuts. We’ll beat winter by touring public atriums, passageways, building...

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Morse Code Talking Popcorn - Nina Katchadourian →

(this is one of my lectures this week while you’re out of town, funnily enough I totally spaced on that connection when Monica brought her work up the other night)

Dec 13th

Erik Nitsche

Essay by Steve Hller on Typotheque: Erik Nitsche: The Reluctant Modernist Eric Nitsche may not be as well known today as his contemporaries, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, or Saul Bass, but he is their equal. Almost 90 years old, this Swiss born graphic designer is arguably one of the last surviving Modern design pioneers. Although he never claimed to be either a progenitor or follower of any dogma,...

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Thomas Demand

Thomas Demand Rain / Lluvia (2008) 35 mm film, 4 min., loop, stereo (via e-flux) Rain patters onto the stage in the venerated Teatro Lara in Madrid. It takes a while to realise that no water is falling: these are raindrops animated by hand! The film projection washes over the stage, hundreds of drops splashing onto the seamlessly wet surface. But nothing is as it seems. Simulation is...

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ghosts of shopping past →

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Roboexotica →

Too bad we can’t get to Vienna for the weekend!

Dec 2nd

This looks like a great book! →

Dec 1st

Clue to sexual attraction found in lesbian brain... →

I think this is the study that Lauryn was talking about…

Dec 1st

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Michael Mandiberg “Security Patterns”

Dec 1st

Six Scents: Designers + Film + Perfumers + Charity →

thissmellslike: Six Scents Two ( www.sixscents.com) “Green optimism in a bottle,” isn’t the average fragrance tagline, but then the Six Scents series have never been average fragrances. Returning with Six Scents: Series Two, this annual project has seen another collaboration between the fashion and perfume worlds - including fragrant offerings from Henry Holland, Richard Nicoll and Phillip Lim...

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