January 2011
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Syrian Journalist's Cairo Twitpic Feed →
Syrian journalist in Al-Masry Al-Youm, English Edition. Amazing photographs from the heart of Cairo, updating regularly.
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Polyommatus Nabakov →
Vladimir Nabokov once said, “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” The famed author exhibited both equally in his writing and in his non-literary pursuits, which included lepidopterology, the study of butterflies and moths. Although he is of course best known for his intricate novels and essays, the past decade has seen a rediscovery of Nabokov’s...
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Detroitism, The Allure of Ruin Porn →
“Red Dawn 2, the forthcoming sequel to the nineteen eighties B-movie about a Soviet occupation of America, was shot last year in downtown Detroit. A long-abandoned modernist skyscraper coincidentally undergoing demolition served as a backdrop for battle scenes between American guerrillas and the Communist occupiers, now Chinese. For weeks, Chinese propaganda posters fluttered in the...
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Richard McCoy: Beta testers wanted for New Public... →
richardmccoy:
Will you try this mobile app if just once? It’s called “EpiCollect,” and it’s for data collection; EpiCollect was designed for people to create their own projects to collect data on whatever they’re interested in. The app works on both Android and iPhone platforms. I don’t have a link to the app,…
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Carsten Nicolai Telefunken and Glitch Art →
Tom Moody digs into his vaults: “Speaking of ‘glitch’ art, here is some writing I did in 1999 or so for Very magazine about Carsten Nicolai’s CD Telefunken, released under his “noto” name. To activate Telefunken you plugged one of the stereo outputs of your CD player into the audio input of a CRT television and the other into its video input. The same ...
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Digital Fonts: 23 New Faces in MoMA’s Collection →
“MoMA has just acquired 23 digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design Collection. Some are of everyday use, like Verdana; others are familiar characters in our world, like Gotham, which was used in President Obama’s election campaign, or OCR-A, which we can find at the bottom of any product’s bar code; and others are still less common, but exquisitely resonant, like Walker or Template...
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