February 2011
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Smithsonian Air-Clearing Forum on 'Hide/Seek'... →
“…expect a two-day exercise in misdirection, generalized obfuscation and CYA posturing…Not on the agenda: the organized protest, based on anti-gay animus from conservative Christians, that led to the censorship”
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“For a variety of reasons, the immanent future of art-as-a-meme does not bode...”
– Incompatible Systems: The Contending Philosophies of Ubiquity and Scarcity in Contemporary Art
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How We Know/Islands of Meaning →
We are drowning in a flood of information. Our task, says Freeman Dyson, is to create islands of meaning… The enormous success of information theory came from Shannon’s decision to separate information from meaning. His central dogma, “Meaning is irrelevant,” declared that information could be handled with greater freedom if it was treated as a mathematical abstraction independent of...
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Typography is a Grid →
This article was first published in The Designer, no.167, January 1967. It is one of the ‘texts’ published in our book Anthony Froshaug: Typography & texts / Documents of a life. Froshaug wrote this at the height of the vogue for grid-based graphic design, imported into Britain from (especially) Switzerland. In an earlier contribution to The Designer, Brian Grimbly – a friend and colleague...
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“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense...”
– Charles Baudelaire on Edgar Allan Poe, 1856. from The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
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What Role Do Image Apps Like Hipstamatic Have in... →
Damon Winter won third place for “feature picture story” from Pictures of the Year International with photographs taken on an iPhone using the Hipstamatic app. See Winter’s series of photographs, called “A Grunt’s Life,” which was part of an ongoing Times series. Poynter hosted a live chat last Friday with noted conflict photographer Ben Lowy, who has used the iPhone in his work, and...
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