February 2012
43 posts
The Responsive Eye, an exhibition of more than 120 paintings and constructions by
99 artists from some 15 countries, documenting a widespread and powerful new direction in contemporary art, will be on view at The Museum of Modern Art from February
25 through April 25. Directed by William C. Seitz, Curator of Painting and Sculpture
Exhibitions, the exhibition was announced in I962 and has been...
Jacobs on planning
“The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.”
— Jane Jacobs (via boenau, urbnist)
As the digital universe expands, so does this wild, undomesticated side.
– http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_dysonqa/all/1
Narrative Science - - Forbes →
new-aesthetic:
Auto-generated stories at Forbes.com.
Kill Screen: A future for Greece -- via a Choose... →
killscreendaily:
Greece is a total mess right now. Daniel Drezner wanted to see what its possible outcome might look like so he turned the oracle that’s guided us through the ages: Choose Your Adventure.
Welcome to Choose Your Own Troika Program For Greece! You are a junior member of the One World…
FINANCIAL METAPHORS: MECHANIC, ORGANIC OR...? →
Newtonian physics: the system of physics based principally on the dynamics of Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 (including his famous law of gravitation). The system was very successful in predicting the behaviour of particles, pendulums, machines ,etc., up to the end of the 19th Century when the new physics began to have its impact.
By Richard B. Wagner
January 2012
57 posts
COMMANDMENTS
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new...
– Henry Miller on Writing (New Directions, 1964) p 161