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kahn_artist

Surfing for Inspiration - Editorial - Coast Reporter - 1 views

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websurfing inspiration

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  • Who needs dope when you go on a mind-expanding trip just sitting at your computer?
  • kahn_artist on 24 Jun 14
     
    This guy gets it. An editorial on websurfing and how it serves as an inpsiring distraction to "real work". Reminds me of a classmate's early blogpost about getting distracted from an assignment by getting interested in articles. Beautiful.
kahn_artist

Does Web Surfing Increase Productivity and Creativity at Work? - 0 views

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websurfing productivity

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  • kahn_artist on 24 Jun 14
     
    Surfing in moderation can relieve stress and inspire creativity.
kahn_artist

Investing In Yourself: Why Surfing the Web is Necessary | Credible Copywriting - Profes... - 0 views

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websurfing research inspiration

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  • urfing the web aids in the inspiration of innovative ideas.
  • kahn_artist on 24 Jun 14
     
    Why internet surfing is more beneficial than people give it credit for
anonymous

Whiten (1991): Natural Theories of Mind - 0 views

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#ThoughtVectors technology media augmented reality virtual reality augmentedreality visualculture natural theories mind

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  • anonymous on 11 Jul 14
     
    Inspired by Will Sullivan Diigo Link added to Thoughtvectors on 27 Jun 14 Simulacra and Simulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/...Simulacra_and_Simulation visualculture augmentedreality See CogSci Bibliography; CogSci Index, and CogWeb for excellent review of developmental psychology research (last updated online 2007)
andhearsonars

Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With 'Curation' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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curation pinterest tumblr internet social media

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  • evoke in the viewer a certain feeling, atmosphere or mood
  • Not just on Pinterest, but also in the form of dopamine-boosting street-fashion blogs and cryptically named Tumblr blogs devoted to the wordless and explanation-free juxtaposition of, say, cupcakes and teapots and shoes with shots of starched shirts and J.F.K.
  • artfully arranged pictures of other people’s stuff?
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  • “curation,”
  • rarefied and highly specialized skill, would all of a sudden go viral
  • Not because I don’t like magazines. In many ways, I like them better. But they’re too grounded in space and time, too organized and linear, too collaborative and professional to deliver the synaptic frisson available from the stream-of-consciousness image blog.
  • A friend of a friend calls his addiction to sites like these “avenues for procrastination,” but I think there’s something else involved. Like other forms of pastiche — the mix tape, the playlist, the mash-up — these sites force you to engage and derive meaning or at least significance or at the very least pleasure from a random grouping of pictures. Why not dive into an alternative world full of beauty and novelty and emotion and the hard-to-put-your-finger-on feeling that there’s something more, somewhere, where you’re not chained to your laptop, half dead from monotony, frustration and boredom
  • the sudden rise of the mood board as mood regulator, a kind of low-dose visual lithium
  • So maybe we are like the rats, and what we’re seeking while idly yet compulsively cruising Pinterest is really just the reliably unpredictable jumble of emotions that their wistful, quirky juxtapositions evoke. Maybe that is our rectangularity.
  • This is, I think, what these sites evoke: the feeling of being addicted to longing for something; specifically being addicted to the feeling that something is missing or incomplete. The point is not the thing that is being longed for, but the feeling of longing for the thing.
  • In other words, your average Pinterest board or inspiration Tumblr basically functions as a longing machine.
  • They target aspects of our lives that “are incomplete or imperfect”; involve “overly positive, idealized, utopian imaginations of these missing aspects”; focus on “incompleteness on the one hand and fantasies about ideal, alternative realities on the other hand”
  • frivolous and feminine
  • People don’t post stuff because they wish they owned it, but because they think they are it, and they long to be understood, which is different.
  • In fact, the company discourages people from posting images they have created themselves, preferring that they venture out into the wilds of the Internet looking for beautiful things to bring back to the cave.
  • “Curation” does imply something far more deliberate than these inspiration blogs, whose very point is to put the viewer into an aesthetic reverie unencumbered by thought or analysis. These sites are not meant (as curation is) to make us more conscious, but less so.
  • But products are no longer the point. The feeling is the point. And now we can create that feeling for ourselves, then pass it around like a photo album of the life we think we were meant to have but don’t, the people we think we should be but aren’t.
nbell003

A beginner's guide to fashion trend forecasting with Geraldine Wharry - Inspired by... ... - 0 views

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  • nbell003 on 25 Jun 14
     
    WGSN ConstantPinterest 
mcandersonaj

Sexualization in Video Games - 0 views

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gaming sexualization

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  • To sexualize a person in a video game (or any medium really) is to reduce them to an object; to reduce their value down to a sexual thing.  
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      mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
       
      Gives me an actual definition of what it is to sexualize a character in a video game.
    • mcandersonaj
      mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
       
      The author talks about how he feels about sexualization in games. 
  • Even better: let’s leave sexualization out of our games.  Sexy is cool and is but a single variety of character personality.  Sexualization is a whole other thing.  And for women, a largely negative thing.
    • mcandersonaj
      mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
       
      An extremely one sided comment, to me it sounds like he's saying that if a man were to be over-sexualized it would not be a negative. 
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      mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
       
      While the article does make valid points it seems extremely biased. So i need to be careful when rereading it and pulling information from this article 
  • It’s the point at which the player controlling that character cares a lot more for the sexual fantasies she inspires than her value as a character.
    • mcandersonaj
      mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
       
      Another good definition to be aware of when I do more research on the topic. This point that he talks about is one that most players never really think about when they play games and look at their characters. 
  • mcandersonaj on 26 Jun 14
     
    A man talks about gaming and sexualization
kimah6

Google's robot army in action - 2 views

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robots technology roboticstechnology science innovation

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  • kimah6 on 25 Jun 14
     
    Boston Dynamics The desire to make robots seem gentle and appealing is not foremost among Boston Dynamics' priorities. Its thuggish looking creations, usually inspired by an animal, have largely been developed for the US military, for purposes which are delicately described as "search and rescue" tasks.
andhearsonars

School Systems Blog - Four Ways to Use Pinterest in Education - 1 views

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#pinterest #education_tool

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  • Pins are also shared and searchable, which makes Pinterest a wonderful resource for visual information.
  • specific theme
  • original source, where you may find more inspiration
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  • organizing
  • social networking
  • collaborate
  • set up boards that allow multiple people to pin
  • categorizing
  • tutorials
  • write a note to yourself about the pin so you will remember exactly why you chose it
  • organize resources for presentations, projects, essays
  • visual journal
peppermara

Interview with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar - 0 views

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#tv008 #ThoughtVectors

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  • peppermara on 07 Jul 14
     
    founder and artistic director of Urban Bush Woman out of New York City. -speaks of inspiration, influences of her movement/project -sheds light on intertwined history of the Black Art's Movement -reflects on community-what individual voices provide -"I can be me, and I can create from that place. I can create from who I am and from the strengths and vulnerabilities of my community."
peppermara

Artistic Dreaming - Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse | Human Rights in Australi... - 0 views

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#ThoughtVectors #tv008 ##womanempowerment

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  • Ngala Nanga Mai
  • Since its inception, it has been an accessible and popular program within the community, bringing together mostly young women from lower-socio economic backgrounds that face issues of social isolation and disadvantage, which have previously restricted them from using these essential services.
  • Often, guest artists will attend to lead workshops that expose the women to different artistic techniques and cultural experiences.
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  • The project is about women and children and their access to health, education, art and social interaction. Art is central: it is about the process for the individual as an integrated being
  • be removed from their circumstances by immersing in the present and learn about themselves through the process of education and expression.
  • For the women, these meeting times exist in a space that provides a momentary respite from the role of mothering, where they can focus on the project before them,
  • We discuss how art gives shape to identity, pain and discovery as it taps into the unconscious. It connects the body, mind and spirit, allowing the opportunity to create and then step back and reflect. It is this holistic process that promotes the greatest right: human dignity.
  • Overall well-being has increased, contributed to by a greater sense of purpose, social connectedness, self-confidence and belonging.
  • In the past four years, Ngala Nanga Mai has grown into a strong, unified group that continues to prosper.
  • Art will forever remain one of the most effective mediums of expression. As blank canvases are filled with colours that depict stories, identities and lives, art will continue to inspire and empower change, growth and reflection. Initiatives such as Ngala Nanga Mai reveal the potential of art as a tool for promoting human development, building community and fostering well-being. Whilst law, policy and large-scale government intervention lack the capacity to ensure holistic change on an institutional level, it is vital that more creative ventures emerge that foster artistic expression, human rights and social empowerment. With motivation they are not only possible but sustainable.
Bonnie Boaz

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Bonnie Boaz on 23 Jun 14
     
    On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt. Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed nine million users.
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