Goncharova Katherina, Cat which is listening to Bach
"I’m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue. It is one thing to browse the Internet; it is another thing to write for it.
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We’re still playing with toys. The Internet is blessed with undoubtedly miraculous applications, but language is not yet one of them. Absent the force of the human imagination and its powers of expression, our machines cannot accelerate the hope of political and social change, which stems from language that induces a change of heart.
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Lapham’s Quarterly editor Lewis Lapham on machine-made news.
Also see 7 notable books on the future of information and the internet.
(via explore-blog)
Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort. (via Incomplete Manifesto for Growth)
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray / Go throw your TV set away /And in its place you can install / A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ~ Roald Dahl
50 best photos from The Natural World - The Big Picture, Boston Globe
Epic. Little girl’s rant against gendered toys marketing and the exploitation of pink. See also photographer JeongMee Yoon’s Pink and Blue Projects (via)
I love this child. This is five hundred types of amazing.
Ghost Garden by ~Suncut
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