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good: Illuminating Brooklyn’s Sky in Solidarity With...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:43:48 -0400

Illuminating Brooklyn’s Sky in Solidarity With Boston
- Lucky Tran wrote in Community, Creativity and Boston

After the bombings in Boston yesterday, the security response was huge in New York. Manhattan was in lockdown, with police swarming everywhere, and people were told by the authorities to run and hide inside their homes. So we decided to stay in Brooklyn and project on one of it’s most iconic and most loved buildings: the Brooklyn Academy of Music. BAM didn’t know about it, and at first security was suspicious, but as soon as they saw the message, they embraced us with approval. Even police officers who drove by gave us a warm nod and beep. It was a sweet moment when we saw a plea for peace trump the rules…

Continue reading Lucky’s story on good.is

This is so awesome

"Let’s put ourselves in the undergraduate student’s position. Someone eighteen years old, embarking..."

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:57:46 -0500

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Let’s put ourselves in the undergraduate student’s position. Someone eighteen years old, embarking on an academic career, might well ask: Will this world welcome me, welcome my potential abilities? Or am I being trained for a life on a hamster wheel? Is my value simply the value of a hamster that can run, a bioform for the Matrix to plug into and extract my essence for the benefit of a larger machine? Is this world full of possibilities, is it asking me to contribute, welcoming my contribution, valuing me for the things known and unknown that I may one day be able to contribute? Or am I being wronged from the start, treated as a “customer,” which all too often means, alas, someone to fleece?

Is the world full of smart and welcoming adults who are interested in what I have to say, encouraging me to work hard and learn and try things, or is it full of thieves and charlatans who are out to rip me off and saddle me with debt and enslave me before I even get a chance to start my adult life??

Let’s consider this from the educator’s point of view, as well. Doesn’t the quality of a culture rely in part on a deep, dynamic interaction between those who are adults now, and those who will be soon?…

Let me suggest that it’s not the young workers who are being trained wrong. It’s the bosses.

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- The ever-wise Maria Bustillos envisions the future of education in the age of MOOCs, advocating for instilling in young people a desire to find their purpose rather than slave away at work. (via explore-blog)

"“As books became cheaper, more portable, and therefore more desirable, they expanded the..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:25:08 -0500

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“As books became cheaper, more portable, and therefore more desirable, they expanded the market for all publishers, heightening the value of literacy still further.”

“That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place. The importance of any given experiment isn’t apparent at the moment it appears; big changes stall, small changes spread.”

“When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to

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- http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

fireoneout: Sandy is approaching.

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:23:42 -0400

fireoneout:

Sandy is approaching.

explore-blog: How are you educating yourself? 344 illustrated...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:07:10 -0400

explore-blog:

How are you educating yourself? 344 illustrated flowcharts to answer life’s big questions on happiness and success.

literaryjukebox: It’s only when the heart begins to beat...

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:07:06 -0400

literaryjukebox:

It’s only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern — when it begins to realize its boundlessness — that its newly adamant pulse bangs on the walls of its cage and is bruised by its enclosure.

To feel the heart pound is only the beginning. Next is to feel the hurt — the tearing of the psyche — the prelude of entry into the place one has always feared. One fears that place because of being drawn to it, loving it, and wanting to be taught by it. Without the need to be taught, who would feel the psyche rip?…. Without the bruise, who would know where the walls are?

Kay Larson in Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

Song: “Walls” by Beck

iTunes :: Amazon

Google street art

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:01:27 -0400

Google street art:

Love the mix of imagery from the same place. A great way to relive the past

Quadroponics

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:51:12 -0400

Quadroponics:

This solves 3 problems at once. I wonder if they can do this surrounded by a giant pond..

This.

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:20:56 -0400

This.

myedol: Cooled Conservatories by Wilkinson Eyre...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:54:03 -0400

myedol:

Cooled Conservatories by Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Recently winning World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival the Cooled Conservatories at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore are a magnificent tropical gardens full of plants from across the globe.

Artists: | Website | [via: The Fox Is Black]

Watch:

This is probably what space colonies will look like

nevver: Reach as high as you can It can only get better and...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:22:56 -0400

nevver:

Reach as high as you can

It can only get better and better

Wifi OS

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:43:34 -0400

I hate Verizon and Cablevision. Everybody I know hates their telecom companies. It is an area that needs challengers that can make the big companies scared and nicer to their customers. There are smaller, shrewd companies with some good ideas but I am doubtful an upstart has enough firepower to deal with the Telecom Cartel since it is so hard to acquire cellular towers. It will take an integrated, scaled company with complimentary assets to impact the Telecom Cartel.

One company that can take them on is Microsoft. Well, I shouldn’t say take on. What I have envisioned for while is Microsoft providing wifi to the public and littering them all along the country like Johnny Appleseed. It seems they are thinking about this too. The missing piece here are places to put the wifi boxes. By combining small, strategic real estate investments with wireless capabilities, they could provide a cheap alternative to telecom companies, which will lock people into skype and serve as the launching pad for their mobile system. It can simultaneously undercut every competing OS.

A wildcard up their sleeve is that their founder and adviser, Paul Allen, owns Vulcan Inc, an investment company that has experience with real estate, wireless spectrum and may be able to help streamline this shift for them.

unconsumption: A new class of electronics can dissolve and...

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:22:07 -0400

unconsumption:

A new class of electronics can dissolve and disappear on a pre-set schedule, within a few minutes or a few years, depending on when you want them to go away.

They could live in the body and deliver drugs, they could stick on the exterior of buildings or tanks, and they can become compost instead of metal scrap—in other words, they turn the common conception of electronics completely upside down.

Transient electronics, as they’ve been dubbed, are a combination of silk and silicon designed to work seamlessly in our bodies and in our environments.

In a new study, researchers built a thermal device designed to monitor infection in a rodent and a 64-pixel digital camera—all from dissolvable material.

Fascinating! What if your old cellphone just disappeared? “Dissolvable material” seems kinda freaky, but … maybe a good thing if it’s real??

More: Awesome New Electronics Can Dissolve and Disappear When They’re No Longer Needed | Popular Science

This needs to happen sooner

shapeways: Nice work @loosetony (Taken with Instagram at New...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:09:19 -0400

shapeways:

Nice work @loosetony (Taken with Instagram at New York Hall of Science)

nobudge: FROWNLAND - A pitch-black character study of Keith Sontag (Dore Mann), a neurotic,...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:54:35 -0400

nobudge:

FROWNLAND - A pitch-black character study of Keith Sontag (Dore Mann), a neurotic, manipulative, stridently unlovable New Yorker. Directed by RONALD BRONSTEIN.

“This is personal cinema at its most uncompromising and fierce.”
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Watch the trailer below…

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Good stuff.

BRYCE DOT VC: Mini Medicis of the Web Renaissance

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:51:12 -0400

BRYCE DOT VC: Mini Medicis of the Web Renaissance :

brycedotvc:

As the world transitioned from the depths of the dark ages, a Florentine family rose to business and political prominence. In the late 14th century the House of Medici established themselves as a political dynasty and banking powerhouse which grew to become the largest bank in all of Europe for…

Great post but Idk if vimeo will create this dynamic

Quick thought: if twitter wanted Instagram so much, why didn’t they create a section...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:17:31 -0400

Quick thought: if twitter wanted Instagram so much, why didn’t they create a section designated for pictures shared on their service? The community wouldn’t be the same as Instagram but I feel like there’s a decent amount of cross over between users anyway, so there is a larger likelihood of adoption.

With the t.co wrapper they can easily index a majority of images shared. For users looking to build influence, especially brands, this specific stream is an extra avenue of exposure. Picture sharing seems to be a reliant tool for engagement and can be a way to leverage the brand partnerships they are building

crushabledotcom: asecond-madworld: josieisyourdemon: this is...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:59:22 -0400

crushabledotcom:

asecond-madworld:

josieisyourdemon:

this is my favourite thing ever

I don’t know why, but every single time I see this, it makes me really happy. Thanks little owl. :3

This just made my day a hundred times better.

This is extremely sweet.

Expression and money.

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:31:26 -0400

What I love about the internet is that it is a tool for democratization with unprecedented power. Everyone has the opportunity to express themselves and make a difference. There is the 80-20 rule that states the 80% of the content is made by 20% of the people. I disagree with that. Whether you know it or not, you are a creator. You are a creator every time you post on facebook and a curator every time you re- tweet, tumble, or pin. This is without mentioning more explicit acts of creation such as blogging or uploading your work onto youtube. For most, these are activities squeezed into the normalness that working to support yourself entails.

Even better than expressing yourself and doing what you love is making a living doing what you love or loving your lifestyle. Services like etsy and the kindle platform allow you to make a living off of your art. Ebay, craigslist, and wordpress have laid out the infrastructure to sustain hassle free businesses for scores of people to live the lifestyle they want. The most exciting to me are philanthropic, investing networks that enable others to create sustainable businesses. kickstarter, kiva, and angel.co are 3 of this type that stand out to me.

In an age of abundance we can pursue our passions. Not only that, we can live off our passions by monetizing them, The economy is bad and attention is scarce, so you may not make a lot of money, but you can subsidize your other expenses. It never hurts to have diverse revenue streams. Better than making money, you will have spent more of your time doing something you actually love. That is the ideal world for me. I think we should make as many moments as possible the fullest expression of who we are.

"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:25:16 -0400

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The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

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- John Milton (via explore-blog)

Anything can be reframed