Andrea Morales

ronworkman:

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72 Pins is having an art show at Yetee Gallery!

All of our carts will be on display, as well as other artwork from the talented artists who have worked with us. It’s going to be an awesome show loaded with NEStalgia!

Show opens June 9, 6-10pm, Aurora, IL (just outside of Chicago)

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ryvarga:

‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space

elideario:

By Jaebum Joo

“It’s something I’ve found out as I’m aging…that I am in love with the world.”

newsweek:

“The Life of Julia” is pretty much a slam-dunk for the Obama communications campaign.

Anna Anthropy on why “indie” seems to be the wrong adjective when describing videogames that break the industry’s norm on any level.

“…A distinction we don’t need to make in an era where there’s no distinction between who can make videogames and who can’t.”

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Anna Anthropy trata el tema de los juegos “indie”, y por qué esa etiqueta es incorrecta para describir todo juego que rompe las reglas de la industria.

“Una distinción que no necesitamos hacer en una era en la que no hay distinción entre aquellos que pueden hacer videojuegos y aquellos que no pueden.”

neil-gaiman:

Neil Gaiman

1 Write.

2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like…

8bitfuture:

Algorithm creates vector art from pixels.

An algorithm created by Microsoft researchers upscales 8-bit graphics and converts it into vector graphics, able to be upscaled to any size.

The algorithm identifies pixel-level details to accurately shade the new image — but more importantly, the algorithm can create smooth, curved contour lines from only-connected-on-the-diagonal single pixels.

Check out their full gallery here.

A beautiful 50 min documentary on Carlos Cruz-Diez’s life and art. The best part? When he says that he knows some artists that consider passion and life are most enjoyed when one “suffers”, but he prefers to have “peace”. That’s where the best work comes from: inner peace. 

Patrick Watson’s new video, Into Giants.

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Nuevo video de Patrick Watson: Into Giants. 

pulpovioleta:

Vamonó…

curiositycounts:

Recently, we challenged readers to ask themselves if they were living up to their full creative potential. However if you’re already rusty, that’s definitely something that’s easier said than done. Enter Project Of How, a self-proclaimed “open interactive library of creative techniques”. I’m digging the manifesto and the site itself is a mental trampoline of brain teasers and tools. So next time you’re looking to stretch your school of thought, take a look. 

MIT’s Collective Intelligence papers are now online and completely free. All you consumer data geeks can now relish on hours upon hours of academia and knowledge.

You’re welcome.

minusmanhattan:

You may have already seen these photos of crazy Russian teen Marat Dupri circulating around the web, but apparently it’s more than just him and his friends and is a Russian meme of sorts among teens called Skywalking. 

From Peta Pixel:

Skywalking basically involves a photographer making his way up to a death-defying height, and snapping a photo that’s meant to give you both a perspective you’ve never seen before, and that feeling like your stomach just made its way into your throat.

Photographs by Vadim Mahorov.

shortformblog:

jakke:

France had the first round of its presidential election today. To no one’s surprise, Socialist candidate Francois Hollande leads incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy in the exit polls. However, horrible far-right Marine Le Pen is doing way better than was predicted by polling. What happened here? Was this a random sampling mishap, or are voters lying about their choice?

On Friday, five separate polling agencies released polls based on samples taken over Wednesday and Thursday (available here, here, here, here, and here). These should be reasonably close to how people actually voted, and since they’re all polling all of France at the same time they should be sampling the same distribution of voters. So based on those polls, what’s the likelihood of the exit poll outcome we saw today?

Oh the graph above, the bell curves represent what the last five polls predict, and the horizontal dashed lines indicate the actual exit poll results. For Hollande and Sarkozy, then polling did a good job; the polls are pretty close to the middle of the bell curve. For (despicable bigot) Le Pen, though, the actual vote share was way higher than what the polls predicted. What happened here? There are three possibilities:

1. The polling agencies all just randomly picked a sample without very many Le Pen voters. As you can see from this graph, this possibility is so far out at the end of the bell curve that it barely even registers.
2. Lots of people changed their votes over the weekend. Millions of French people woke up Sunday morning with their mind totally changed and marched out to vote for Le Pen even though previously they’d been set on another candidate. This is definitely possible, although Le Pen never touched 20% support in any poll in the last two months.
3. Voters are lying to pollsters because they don’t want to admit (even to a stranger) that they are the pathetic small-minded racists who would vote for Le Pen.

Almost certain that #3 is what’s going on here. This has scary implications for polling European elections, because it indicates that as voter dissatisfaction with the eurozone and the response of the mainstream parties to the ongoing crisis grows we might see some really unpleasant surprise election results over the next couple years.

Great analysis of the French presidential election. Of note — Le Pen toppled the first-round score her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, scored in 2002, a showing which her party suggests solidifies her long-term potential. Read up more on the election over here.

neil-gaiman:

Wally Wood’s 22 Panels that always work.

Because some of you may want to make comics one day…

In 1959, Bert Haanstra won an Oscar for this magnificent short-poetic-documentary on the glass industry.

I can see why :)

penelopeisaflirt:

I forgot how much I FREAKING love these videos, thank you John Green for reminding me. Utter brilliance

These houses aren’t graves. They’re secret histories, waiting to be read. 

Amazing video made by Ransom Riggs while looking for locations in Europe for a trailer of his book Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

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Estas casas no son tumbas, son historias esperando ser leídas por alguien. 

Impresionante video hecho por Ransom Riggs mientras buscaba locaciones para grabar el trailer de su libro Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

markcoatney:

You heard it here first. 

curiositycounts:

The first of many entrancing audiovisual installations to come from the collaboration artwork Pieces by musician Squeaky Lobster and Romain Tardy, a member of AntiVJ. In the first incarnation of this “versatile installation”,Battleships, a grid lights up with black and white mapped projections.

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