3. During evenings and weekends, Temporary holds its special 'experiments', which are events built around experimental participation. These events are proposed by and organised by YOU. They may take any form that is possible given the constraints of the room and the real world. The more unusual, the better!
4. You earn "Temps", our currency (written as Ŧ), every time you walk through the door. You get an ID card, and use the card to easily accumulate your Temps. You can even be anonymous, if you'd prefer.
5. Through this website, you can propose your own ideas for experiments that you would like to organise. It currently costs 70Ŧ to hold an evening event. You can spend your own Ŧ on it, but you can't spend all 70 yourself - you need at least 1Ŧ from at least one other person.
The most common characteristic of successful entrepreneurs, per extensive research by Professor Amar Bhide in his classic book, The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, is that via their experience working for others, they’d identified a niche that was underserved and started a business to fill the gap. Young people with no or little business experience are unlikely to have the opportunity, on someone else’s nickel, to get a sense of how an industry works and identify opportunities. Nor will they have had much opportunity to learn other skills, like negotiating, qualifying suppliers, vetting and hiring professional services providers, and managing subordinates.
The Quiet Desperation of Millennials | naked capitalism (via iamdanw)
Crystal writes, “‘Dark rides’ like the Spookarama at Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park, those single-cart rides that take you through a haunted house full of ghosts and scares. They’re prime for teenage making out, have been around for 100 years – and they’re disappearing. Joel Zika, a 36-year-old art and design university professor in Melbourne, Australia, has been fascinated with the dark rides for years, reveling their connection to early horror effects in movies. So he decided to document them in the only way that would truly do them justice: virtual reality.”
Folklorists, anthropologists, ethnologists and linguists have long puzzled over why complex mythical stories that surface in cultures widely separated in space and time are strikingly similar. In recent years a promising scientific approach to comparative mythology has emerged in which researchers apply conceptual tools that biologists use to decipher the evolution of living species. In the hands of those who analyze myths, the method, known as phylogenetic analysis, consists of connecting successive versions of a mythical story and constructing a family tree that traces the evolution of the myth over time.
Scientists Trace Society's Myths to Primordial Origins - Scientific American
From protests against galleries in Boyle Heights to the powder-keg Kelley Walker solo show at Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, the world of contemporary art has found itself indicted both insi…
Unfortunately artists make great capitalists, because they are skilled at generating new objects and sites of value. Urban capitalism assiduously seeks the new, because the old and existing have depreciated exchange value. Neighborhoods are profitable as they first rise, but to generate the same profits must be constantly remade – a process that means any place in the city becomes a frontier as soon as it is built.
In the 1960s, being an engaged artist had a special meaning. You could be whatever you wanted—rich, egotistical, power hungry, or elitist. You just had to say the working class will win, and Stalin is good, and capitalism is bad.
I know why you’re here. Something has happened that has pushed you over the edge. You know, with regards to “political c…
Here is a great article by Julia Serano, who is a well-known transgender activist and writer. She talks about how people will act “outraged” over society being too politically correct, and instead of railing against sexism, racism, transphobia, muslimophobia, antisemitism, ableism (any other form of bigotry and hatred toward a minority group), they will spend more time complaining about being too politically correct and defending the said person who is being called out for their prejudice.
See, here is the thing: if you say or do something that is considered offensive about a certain community, you SHOULD be prepared for what consequences might follow. If you make/sell a costume making fun of a transgender celebrity for transiting in the public eye, do you think that transgender people will stay silent? Of course not! They would speak out, launch a petition, call for a boycott, etc. If you are a public figure and you have said or written that “MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS!!!” do you actually think Muslims would stay quiet? Of course not–they would protest and tell you that you are wrong and launch a campaign to counteract your Muslimophobic remarks.
Here is my favourite excerpt from the essay:
Finally, to all the people who have written, or are considering writing, articles rallying against “political correctness,” or “call-out culture,” or the “Internet outrage machine,” or whatever you want to call it: This may surprise you, but sometimes I agree with some of the points you make. As I previously mentioned, I wrote an entire book about how activism — in the course of advocating on behalf of certain marginalized groups — sometimes veers into the realm of invalidating or marginalizing other groups. So I strongly believe that there is common ground for us to have smart and necessary conversations about how we can balance civil discourse and differences of opinion, while at the same time fully respecting one another as people.
But if instead of engaging in such smart and necessary conversations, you’d rather just write the flip-side of the “Internet outrage machine” article — where instead of stoking outrage about people who have allegedly committed acts of sexism, or racism, or transphobia, and so on, you instead stoke outrage about the people who are protesting these potential acts of sexism, or racism, or transphobia, and so on — and/or if you want to dismiss or condemn these activists’ and minority groups’ protests without addressing any of the Pandora’s Boxes that I have described along the way in this article, then fuck you. Seriously. Fuck you. You are a hack who does not want to have a serious conversation about these super-important and super-complex issues. You just want to be in the right.
I am a Mills alum (2009) with a Book Arts minor. The Book Arts programme was a big factor in my decision to attend Mills– I saw the studio on the student visiting day, had my chance to print something on one of the Vandercooks, and immediately fell in love. As a freshwoman, I camped out half the night to sign up for courses, with my eyes on one of the few open places in Intro to Book Arts. In succeeding years, I spend many afternoons, nights and weekends in the studio. Those are some of my favourite memories of Mills.
I am now finishing a PhD in human-computer interaction at the University of Edinburgh (UK), and absolutely believe that my years in the book arts studio were an important foundation for my current work in design, research, and teaching. Book Arts taught me about design thinking, making choices and justifying decision when there are 101 options, project planning, and the virtue of measuring twice and cutting once. The many hours around the seminar room table, learning how to constructively critique and give feedback on my own and others’ work, were one of the most valuable things I did at Mills in terms of preparation for graduate-level study. Constructive critique is hard. Giving feedback that others can understand, process and concretely use—but that still respects their vision and overall ownership of ideas and projects—is just as difficult. Learning how to be on the receiving end of critique and feedback of a very personal-feeling project is maybe the hardest of all! I did learn, partly because Book Arts had such a strong sense of community and collective spirit, with the same students getting to know each other and their work over time, feeling like we were a team that was part of something special and unusual. All of those critique, feedback, and discussion skills are a huge part of what I need to do as a PhD researcher, tutor, student project supervisor, and member of the academic community.
I immensely value my Book Arts experience and book-binding/printing skills and will always take an interest in this area, even though I am now at the computer far more often than the cutting mat. I would urge Mills to realise that Book Arts can benefit students in far more ways than in learning to make and appreciate artists’ books. It is an opportunity for skills and experiences that you can take to many different places.
Ultimately, I decided that the most important thing you should be aware of before moving to San Francisco is this: the city is changing, quickly. Mechanisms of gentrification have upended neighborhoods with the abruptness of lightning strikes, dividing the citizenry. This is important, because from the day you get here, you’ll find yourself in the middle of this divide, caught in anxious, awkward suspension between two worlds: one that’s losing control of its identity and one that hasn’t really figured out what its identity is yet. I should actually amend that statement: you’ll feel like you’re strung in the middle of two worlds. This will not be so.
An Open Letter to Anyone Moving to San Francisco for a Tech Job - The Bold Italic - San Francisco
This Camera Refuses to Take Pictures of Over-Photographed Locations
Every year, flocks of tourists travel to iconic destinations just to view them through a camera lens. Since the popularization of smartphones (and selfies), what were already the most overly photographed landmarks on earth are now more well-documented than ever. Camera Restricta seeks to reverse this trend by locking its shutter in heavily photographed locations.
Conceived by German designer Philipp Schmitt, the “camera" is made from a 3D-printed shell that encloses a smartphone. An app uses GPS to track your location and calculate how many online photos have been geotagged within a 115-foot radius. If too many photos have already been taken there, Camera Restricta refuses to function. It only allows you to start photographing again once you’ve moved to a less-documented area.
Real Kickstarter campaign organized by artists to produce a video player to easily set up and install video installations:
As artists we often had a hard time installing video presentations for exhibitions. How could we easily loop a video? And sync a video over multiple screens? Simple things that were time consuming while you would think it could have been solved easily…
Fact of the matter was, that if you wanted to play multiple videos in an exhibition or at a fair, it was always a problem! Remote controls that needed to be pressed at the same time, computers that needed to be programmed, professional companies hired to install. Or you always had to go yourself. What if there was to be a box that would just fix that. It would not be exiting, it would not offer anything new, it wouldn’t cost days to figure out, it would just make technology work. That’s it!
So we found a great engineer in China who helped us make our dream media player! A simple box that would take the first video on a USB key, and loop it. And when you would have two boxes they could sync at the flick of a switch! They even wanted to help us create a small production run! OMG. And it was possible to put on a custom screensaver! Just like the old DVD player screen savers. So we could put our own artwork on there, making it an art piece when it’s not used to play your video! A machine that actually works, and is an artwork at the same time! Your getting a limited edition art piece for free!
So we came up with the name for our company. DullTech. Technology that does not need to be exiting. It’s boring, you know why? Because it just works.
Making art “requires the precise opposite of hanging out” and is often “a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out,” characterized by a “lack of financial security and the necessary hours and hours of solitude spent fucking up over and over again.”
Culture Isn’t Free | Jacobin
The internet is dead. Long live the internet! @blerchin - Tumblr Blog | Tumgag
