February 2011
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Yes, this thing. Don’t bother with the video — just go straight to the site.
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo...
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“When you read something you think is bullshit, you’re gonna respond...”
– A journalist finds his trolls. “Tracking down my online haters” (via Joe)
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I Need You To Buy Some Soup →
A “hostile takeover” of Portland Stock, a FEAST-like project in PDX.
Here’s how it will work. You vote for this project. Then, when this project is declared the winner, we’ll split up the funds between ourselves. Since not everyone will vote for this project it means that we’ll all make a little profit. Use that money to create something. Anything.
I will get everyone’s contact...
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“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art...”
– Willa Cather
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Donning the Public Media Lab Coat →
Last week I met up with Trent, my former colleague and now senior editor at On Being (née Speaking of Faith). It was good to catch up, and in the process I learned that they’d hired a new associate producer — none other than my former MPR bus buddy Susan Leem (at one point we shared two bus lines). Looks like she’s wasted no time getting going:
Who isn’t testing a theory, a joke, or...
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“…But Millie, Millie, we must remember art. Dostoievsky, Gorki, for Russia,...”
– From Charles Bukowski’s first published story, “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip.”
Upon receiving the print version of the publication, the March-April 1944 issue of Story, he discovered that “Aftermath” had been printed in the end-notes. He wouldn’t begin...
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“…But Millie, Millie, we must remember art. Dostoievsky, Gorki, for Russia,...”
– From Charles Bukowski’s first published story, “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip.”
Upon receiving the print version of the publication, the March-April 1944 issue of Story, he discovered that “Aftermath” had been printed in the end-notes. He wouldn’t begin...
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