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wnycradiolab: staceythinx: A knitted anatomy lesson by Shanell...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 19:50:28 +0000

staceythinx:

A knitted anatomy lesson by Shanell Papp

Papp on the project:

To make the work, I borrowed a human skeleton from the university and collected anatomical textbooks. I also managed to track down a mortuary gurney for displaying the work–a mortuary gave me a gurney after a renovation…they were looking to get rid of it since “people are were getting too fat for the gurney.” I also worked in an old hospital turned history museum. I also went to open house day at a local funeral…they gave me a decorative pen. During my graduate studies, I was granted open access to the gross anatomy lab, though I was long finished making LAB/skeleton at this point. I was given access to draw, look around…. It is always funny how specimens are collected and cared for.

So much cool knitting in this world.

A knitted anatomy lesson. Too cool.

"A breathless Sony flack imagined one fantasy that would soon come true: On your telephone, you will..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:23:32 +0000

“A breathless Sony flack imagined one fantasy that would soon come true: On your telephone, you will be able to watch video clips of other people playing a fighting game, decide which opponents you would like to fight, and then challenge those people to fight (later, when you’re using the actual PlayStation 4). You can tell we live in a privileged society when we have to work this hard inventing things to desire.”

- A slightly different look at the PS4 launch

"The other day, perusing this file, he found a joke in which, discussing touch-screen phones, he..."

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:06:51 +0000

“The other day, perusing this file, he found a joke in which, discussing touch-screen phones, he likens the act of scrolling through a contact list and deleting names to the effete, disdainful gesture of a “gay French king” deciding whom to behead.”

- Jerry Seinfeld NYT Profile

"I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. I feel like..."

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:33:59 +0000

“I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. I feel like Elton John just made “Tiny Dancer.” He just made that shit like last night. Jimi Hendrix just burned his fucking guitar onstage. Right? Freddie Mercury just had the half mike stand in his hand in the fucking stadium. Prince was just on the mountain in “Under the Cherry Moon.” And I was there. That’s how I look at it. Like this shit just went down. You see the mastery that I’m surrounded by? How on earth am I going to take the easiest way? A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. But all you have is 100 percent. Period.”

- Frank Ocean

"He still takes a hand in forming the trainees into idol groups, including S.M.’s newest one, EXO...."

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:14:38 +0000

“He still takes a hand in forming the trainees into idol groups, including S.M.’s newest one, EXO. The group has twelve boys, six of them Korean speakers who live in Seoul (EXO-K) and six Mandarin speakers, who live in China (EXO-M). The two “subgroups” release songs at the same time in their respective countries and languages, and promote them simultaneously, thereby achieving “perfect localization.””

- Cultural technology and the making of K-pop.

RIP Neil Armstrong. First man on the moon, first childhood hero....

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:47:45 +0100

RIP Neil Armstrong. First man on the moon, first childhood hero. (Taken with Instagram)

Facebook redefines 6 Degrees of Separation to 4

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:08:32 +0100

“When considering another person in the world, a friend of your friend knows a friend of their friend, on average,” the technical paper pithily concluded.

Just chilling with the #london2012 Olympic Torch. Might...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:02:41 +0100

Just chilling with the #london2012 Olympic Torch. Might Photoshop some flames in afterwards. (Taken with Instagram at Google UK)

"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:44:35 +0100

“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets.”

- The ‘Busy’ Trap - NYTimes.com

"A glass barrier separates the visitors’ gallery and the floor: I ask my tour guide about it. “It’s..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:26:01 +0100

“A glass barrier separates the visitors’ gallery and the floor: I ask my tour guide about it. “It’s not to stop people from throwing things at their government,” she says, then goes on to explain. Some years ago an Irish politician came late, after the doors had been locked. He ran up to the visitors’ gallery, jumped down from it into the press gallery, 10 feet below, and from there rappelled down the wall to the floor. They allowed the vote, but put up the glass barrier. They disapproved of the loophole, but rewarded the guy with the wit to exploit it. This, she claims, is very Irish.”

- Irish parliament sounds awesome.

"A few months after the spell was broken, the short-term parking-lot attendants at Dublin Airport..."

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:26:00 +0100

“A few months after the spell was broken, the short-term parking-lot attendants at Dublin Airport noticed that their daily take had fallen. The lot appeared full; they couldn’t understand it. Then they noticed the cars never changed. They phoned the Dublin police, who in turn traced the cars to Polish construction workers, who had bought them with money borrowed from Irish banks. The migrant workers had ditched the cars and gone home. Rumor has it that a few months later the Bank of Ireland sent three collectors to Poland to see what they could get back, but they had no luck. The Poles were untraceable: but for their cars in the short-term parking lot, they might never have existed.”

- When Irish Eyes Are Crying

Mini Google Bikes that are left across huge campus for people to...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:16:36 +0100

Mini Google Bikes that are left across huge campus for people to travel around. Super cool (Taken with Instagram at Googleplex - 1900)

"He explained that, in 1998, his father had been kidnapped by bandits for seventy-two days. After the..."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:16:59 +0100

“He explained that, in 1998, his father had been kidnapped by bandits for seventy-two days. After the family paid two ransoms, Federico was released, and Guillermo moved his family to America. Although the experience was wrenching, he observed, “I highly recommend you save your father’s life. You don’t see yourself as somebody’s child anymore. You become a man saving another man.””

- Guillermo del Toro’s Amazing Creatures : The New Yorker

★ Merry

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:53:16 +0000

★ Merry

This Tech Bubble Is Different

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:36:15 +0000

This Tech Bubble Is Different

Hamburger wrapping paper. Want.

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:06:16 +0000

Hamburger wrapping paper. Want.

"The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a..."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:11:18 +0000

“The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence.”

- Steve Jobs « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry

"How many people are introverts? My favourite answer: ”a minority in the regular population but a..."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:53:37 +0000

“How many people are introverts? My favourite answer: ”a minority in the regular population but a majority in the gifted population.””

- Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine - The Atlantic

oliphillips: Walkable Roller Coaster Designed by Heike...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:24:45 +0000

oliphillips:

Walkable Roller Coaster

Designed by Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth

Photo

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:50:28 +0000