June 21 – September 10, 2011
Author: dig
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locker project
An open source project that helps one collect one’s personal data, from the web (will need API keys), and store it locally.
locker demo on youtube source on github
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george sánchez-calderón @ the de la cruz collection
George Sánchez-CalderónTHE FAMILY OF MAN, 2011Solari Train Sign96′ X 240″ X 72″ -
baseball coming to the uk
baseball bats, anyway. sale of bats is up 52,000% in 24 hours. amazon.co.uk
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The Thrill of Boredom
The Thrill of Boredom – NYTimes.com by Peter Toohey.
Existential boredom, it is claimed, can infect a person’s very existence with unrelieved emptiness, isolation and alienation. And it takes in many well-known conditions, evoked by such names as melancholia, ennui, mal de vivre, tristesse, taedium vitae, acedia, spiritual despair, existentialist “nausea” — and garden-variety depression.
Boredom is counterrevolutionary, it may also be evolutionary.
it acts as an early warning that certain situations may be dangerous to human well-being. It’s not unlike disgust, another emotion that helps humans prosper. Just as disgust stops you from eating what is noxious, so boredom, in social settings, alerts you to situations that can do no psychological good. Boredom, interpreted properly, might act as an alarm.
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On Reverie
On Reverie – NYTimes.com by Raphaël Enthoven.
Daughter of consciousness and sleep, reverie blends their realms. Like intoxication, reverie is lucidity without an object, an activity but one that’s passive, a search that begins by giving up and lets itself be dazzled rather than looking. It remains, happily, somewhere between imagination and the ability to put it to use.
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OSP
Their works; includes notcourier-sans.
OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based foundation for art and media Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a range of F/LOSS tools.
