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In today's political climate, it has been tough to be a millennial openly supporting Hillary Clinton. However, it is this very climate that has given the author an even greater respect for everything Hillary Clinton has been forced to endure over the past 25 years.
Collapse of the Grid turned 4 today! My gosh, that’s fantastic! How many posts do I have on this super-blog? Maybe three? At any rate, time passes on the Web differently from elsewhere. Let the festivities proceed!
In the first major retrospective of her sculptural bundles of yarn and found objects, the late Judith Scott is celebrated not just for having found a way to creatively express herself late in life, after being institutionalized with Down syndrome and undiagnosed deafness; instead, the Brooklyn Museum’s Judith Scott: Bound and Unbound honors her powerful, tactile acts of making in two galleries of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
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Now 2 #MOOCs at Wageningen University! "Introduction to Nutrition" #NUTR101x and "Growing our Future Food" #GFFCx http://thndr.it/1xO4ZYg
I just supported The future is now! on @ThunderclapIt // @UniWageningen
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Ideas for mobile apps
Track your (home's) energy use against a profile of solar/wind energy use, either in your region or nationally, based on forecasts produced by ISO's.
Checklist to get out of the house in the morning without leaving the iPhone behind.
Visualization of tasks and people in your schedule or vicinity, with importance indicated by size of bubble, bubbles moving toward you and possibly merging/bumping/being moved away by you.
Energy management system for charging a bunch of mobile devices.
A way to create a backup phone.
Turning this into my "sketchbook," for the duration, for the LIVE! class on Coursera.
Randy Greif -- new work
Structure Standing Still
Aside from really liking the title of this Coursera course, I really enjoyed the course itself. The lecturer's style welcomed me into the mysterious realm of statics, invited me to "think like an engineer" and see the world in a new way.
Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally "performs" its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit programmed by the artist and assembled by hand plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. A return to the format of Perich's lauded 1-Bit Music (described by the Village Voice as "technology and aesthetic rolled into one"), 1-Bit Symphony further reduces the hardware involved while simultaneously expanding its musical ideas. 1-Bit Symphony utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code and routed from microchip to speaker, to manifest data as sound. The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software. While 1-Bit Symphony is purely electronic in its execution, its contents reflect Perich's long-standing interest in orchestral composition. Since the release of 1-Bit Music in 2006, Perich's compositional work has combined 1-bit audio with acoustic classical instruments, providing insight into the conceptual and aesthetic relationships between physical and electronic sound. With 1-Bit Symphony, Perich brings this insight back into the digital realm, juxtaposing the grand form of a classical symphony with the minimal nature of 1-bit circuitry.
Programmed Cell Death
Coursera's "Programmed Cell Death," taught by Barbara Conradt, ended a couple of weeks ago already, and I've been thinking about its philosophical consequences ever since. The criticality of programmed cell death for health and development, and the negative implications of a pure "life instinct" (usually exemplified by various forms of cancer) aren't just a micro world that happens to run counter to our macro world intuitions, but a challenge to those intuitions at the macro level. There's something very crude and wrongheaded about belief systems as various as leftwing pacifism, anti-abortion theology and politics, and Sigmund Freud's thinking about the "death instinct" -- all of this needs to be re-thought for this century, so that we can properly value the critical importance of death to the one substance closest to immortal we're in material contact with, namely, cellular life.
If you have been in trouble trying to install Processing 2 Android, CoffeeScrip or Javascript modes with the built-in option, here you have the links to download the modes and install them manually.
You just need to unzip them in “…/Processing/modes” “…sketches/modes/” folder and restart...
I wanted to share this imaginative artwork from the BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Artisan Series. Along with this piece, there are plenty of other submissions you can explore and "share" with others, too. But don't forget that a "share" isn't a vote - it's just a great way to get the artist exposure. Be sure to return on September 17th to cast a vote for your favorite work.
These prints by Josef Albers, “Six Variants portfolio” (1969) reminded me of 8-bit graphics. They are at auction on January 25, 2012 at Phillips de Pury in New York.
