May 2011
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Designers Discuss "Failure" →
Students from Berghs School of Communication in Sweden have collected a series of videos from successful designers who address the fear of failure and self criticism. Milton Glaser’s video is particularly informative. After watching these videos I would say, watch out for Art Directors especially those that use the term “creatives”, have zero talent, and would be better suited...
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Filter Bubbles and Web Modularity →
I’ve been reading Eli Parser’s book The Filter Bubble about the personalization of sites like Google, Facebook, New York Times - based on an algorithm related to your web history you are getting shown the information they think you want to see, and not really what you need (see book blog). Driven by commercial interests, it’s quite clear that we have no idea what is getting...
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A Gay Bar Called Everywhere →
“This Week’s controversy over the New York magazine profile of trans performer Justin Vivian Bond with some readers calling the article offensive and others arguing that it simply performed the translation that’s required when writing for a general audience—raises once again a perennial question: How do queer acts play when they come to occupy a wider stage? The title of Emily...
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Turner Prize 2011 Shortlist: Humbrol Enamels... →
“Painters George Shaw and Karla Black, sculptor Martin Boyce and video artist Hilary Lloyd are finalists at Baltic, Gateshead…There may be two painters on this year’s Turner prize shortlist, but traditionalists should pause before sighing with relief. One of them paints landscapes in the kind of enamel paint used for decorating model trains and aeroplanes; the other counts...
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Painter David Salle Don't Understand Me Too... →
“Everybody wants to be popular. Well, I suppose there might be a certain fascination in being unpopular — but I guess the point is simply that art as art is not, or ought not to be, anyway, a popularity contest. Art is about something else. And that something else is not measurable by the same tools that are used to measure products in popular culture. I don’t want to see the two ideas...
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Communication Fatigue →
“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines. If you want to be completely quaint, there are also physical mailing addresses. With this...
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