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it's been said before and i'll say it again: image descriptions are not meant to be added later by other people. they are meant to be written by op and included within the op.

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As the day drew to a close Panda and Eeyore realised birthday parties don’t organise themselves.

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Color has been disappearing from the world.

A new research group used machine learning to track color changes in common materials and items, below is their findings for all color changes over time, they used 7000+ items from the 1800s to now to determine color changes in the most common items.

Below are the colors of cars by year, notice how the majority of cars are grey, white, or black compared to twenty years ago.

These aren't data points, but they are comparisons between the 'modern' homes of the 70s and 80s compared to the modern homes of today.

Carpets have equally had the same treatment of grey added to them! The most common color of carpet is now grey or beige.

Even locations that used to scream with color for decades have now modernized to becoming boring minimalist (and I love minimalism) personality-less locations.

The world is becoming colorless, why?

source paper

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How the Bauhaus survived

“Ultimately, the Bauhaus survived because it left the building.”

“Ultimately, the Bauhaus survived because it left the building. The Bauhäuslers were scattered all around the world in exile. Germany’s loss was as numerous as other countries’ gain as teachers and students took the design ethic with them, to places like Tel Aviv, Chicago, Detroit, Tokyo, and Amsterdam—through architecture, art, and industrial design.”

— How the Bauhaus Kept the Nazis at Bay,…

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On the record: Facebook, Twitter and the death of democracy in the era of fake news

Former CNN Asia correspondent Maria Ressa – one of four journalists named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year – warns that no democracy is immune from right-wing propaganda networks on social media

Former CNN Asia correspondent Maria Ressa – one of four journalists named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year – warns that no democracy is immune from right-wing propaganda networks on social media

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See this animation on Instagram

This is the first frame from a #bullettime selfie based on effects used way back in The Matrix. It was made with a row of DSLR’s by @SocialProStudios after a moderated panel about the future of transportation. Vehicles? I can’t wait for flying (at Ricarda's)

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“Design Canada - Documentary Film Trailer” by Hulse & Durrell - Through the lens of graphic design, Design Canada follows the transformation of a nation from a colonial outpost to a vibrant and multicultural society. Cast (Designers): Burton Kramer, Rolf Harder, Fritz Gottschalk, Hans Kleefeld, Stuart Ash, Heather Cooper, and more With Commentary by: Massimo Vignelli, Douglas Coupland, George Stroumboulopoulos, Hannah Sung, and more http://bit.ly/2HoDUm8

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Marc Andreessen's realization of Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is now known.

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Hashtag The hashtag, octothorpe or pound sign, comes from the Latin abbreviation lb, short for libra pondo, or ‘pound weight’. It was first used around the 14th century and was written with a short stroke above the letters so that the ‘l’ would not be mistaken for a ‘1’. This gradually morphed into # – the bottom line implying the bottom of the ‘l and b’ and the top line referring to the stroke above. The symbol was integrated into technology in the late ‘60s by Bell Labs, inventors of the touch-tone phone, who used it in phone systems to separate between strings of numbers. Legend has it that the director of Bell Labs came up with the name ‘octothorpe’ by combining the figure’s eight points with the surname of his favourite athlete, Olympian Jim Thorpe. The hash then appeared in the early days of the internet, featuring as early as 1988, in networks where users communicated through channels, the subject of which was indicated by the hash sign (#Tokyo was a channel of people talking about Tokyo). By the new millennium, however, hashtags were not widely used online except by the techno-elite. In 2007, an employee at Twitter suggested prefixing the names of groups or ‘channels’ with a #. This suggestion was initially rejected as alienating and over-techie, but was eventually adopted, and the meteoric rise of the hashtag was set in motion.

Wired http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-secret-history-of-the-hashtag-slash-and-interrobang/ (via matthewburpee)

From #librapondo #poundweight in the 14th cent. to #octothorpe at Bell Labs to topic channels in 1980s Internet and then Twitter in 2007. The #hashtag #pound symbol story

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Strange and breathless days. (via)

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Coming up

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Our brains protect their habits. This illustration doesn’t apply to me because I like cilantro etc ;o) 

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Photo at Nuit Blanche Toronto by friend Beth Duncan

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Strange and breathless days. (via)

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Julia Kent - Transportation

'Transportation' is taken from Character (2013) Video by Jacopo Barbaccia/Riga: http://riga.org.uk http://juliakent.com http://theleaflabel.com/juliakent

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Hashtag The hashtag, octothorpe or pound sign, comes from the Latin abbreviation lb, short for libra pondo, or ‘pound weight’. It was first used around the 14th century and was written with a short stroke above the letters so that the ‘l’ would not be mistaken for a ‘1’. This gradually morphed into # – the bottom line implying the bottom of the ‘l and b’ and the top line referring to the stroke above. The symbol was integrated into technology in the late ‘60s by Bell Labs, inventors of the touch-tone phone, who used it in phone systems to separate between strings of numbers. Legend has it that the director of Bell Labs came up with the name ‘octothorpe’ by combining the figure’s eight points with the surname of his favourite athlete, Olympian Jim Thorpe. The hash then appeared in the early days of the internet, featuring as early as 1988, in networks where users communicated through channels, the subject of which was indicated by the hash sign (#Tokyo was a channel of people talking about Tokyo). By the new millennium, however, hashtags were not widely used online except by the techno-elite. In 2007, an employee at Twitter suggested prefixing the names of groups or ‘channels’ with a #. This suggestion was initially rejected as alienating and over-techie, but was eventually adopted, and the meteoric rise of the hashtag was set in motion.

Wired http://www.wired.com/2015/10/the-secret-history-of-the-hashtag-slash-and-interrobang/