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"An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s."

J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey. Salinger died two years ago today. (via doubledaybooks)

Reblogged from doubledaybooks, 1,427 notes, January 27, 2012

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This past June, artist and educator Jer Thorp organized the Eyeo Festival, a gathering of coders, data visualization pros, designers and artists. Today, his talk from the Festival, in which he focuses on two of his current projects, was posted online:

First: Project Cascade, a real-time analytic tool built to examine how New York Times content is shared through Twitter. Second: His work designing a name arrangement algorithm for the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. He also sprinkles in a few lessons learned from various projects and his latest work on the OpenPaths.cc project.

For more context about his projects, PopTech interviewed Thorp about his work and his approach a couple of months before the Eyeo Festival. In addition, we spoke with The New York Times Company’s Research and Development Lab’s Michael Zimbalist in May about the development of OpenPaths.cc, a database of anonymous location records uploaded by users, which Thorp explains in his talk. And for an added bonus, enjoy a couple of posts from our coverage of the Eyeo Festival while it was taking place.

Reblogged from poptech, 38 notes, January 23, 2012

cubiclecafe:

The Ice Cycle Shanty hosted MNKINO today. Here are some photos from out on the lake…

Warms my heart.

Reblogged from cubiclecafe, 5 notes, January 22, 2012

Some great code open-source hacktivism here.

poptech:

Have you seen this STOP SOPA screen today? Wonder where it came from? The man behind the screen is none other than Zach Johnson.

On GitHub he explains:

Hi, I’m Zach, and I made this for the internet. I felt inspired by the “going dark” theme of the SOPA blackout protest. I’ve been calling my representatives in Congress, but this gave me another outlet for my frustration with this legislation.

I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution.

Reblogged from poptech, 592 notes, January 18, 2012