25 May 2012 (reblogged from wormulus)
A repeated photographing/filtering of the same image breaks down in recursion. Instagram Sierra filter.
7 May 2012 (reblogged from unypl)
“A Good School” by Richard Yates
How did I miss this: The Underground New York Public Library
(Description: Four people, on the subway in New York, one reading a newspaper, another reading the aforementioned book.)
3 May 2012 (reblogged from barackobama)
The best campaign counter-attack video I HAVE EVER SEEN. Obama 2012
”So we’re going to call their BS when we see it and we need your help to call them on it too and set the record straight. So share this, tweet it, facebook it, I keep hearing about tumblr and whatever that is…please use that too. Thank you.”
-Stephanie Cutter / Deputy Campaign Manager at Obama for America.
And a Tumblr shout-out.
(Transcript available on the YouTube page.)
I’m fascinated by this approach, though I’m not sure who would be taken in by the smokescreen of the Obama campaign’s claiming to speak the truth about US government actions but then failing to cite sources. But then again the video seems to be replacing the idea of sources with this effect of showing increasingly zoomed-in Google Maps views of locations within the US. It’s as if they want to say, here are the US businesses in question, now go find the data yourself or just trust us.
And then there’s the humorous mention of Tumblr, as though the deputy campaign manager can’t be bothered to learn what Tumblr is before endorsing its use. (This reblog of course comes by way of the Obama campaign’s official Tumblr.) The social-media name-dropping and the “you guys” make this seem as though it’s aimed at young adults already in the Obama camp. I guess the hope is that as the video does get shared, it will make it to less-supportive friends and family.
I’m not interested in the claims made here themselves—again, I would rather see data from an independent source, and I’m not impressed by either candidate—but this as a marketing tool, a media product, is really interesting.
(Image: Handbook of action research.)
In which I leap from a speeding convertible onto a moving bus to interview the passengers about their experiences with their gender and sexual identities on the internet.
24 Apr 2012 (reblogged from agamble)
24 Apr 2012: Help with my thesis?
I’m trying to get the word out about a survey for my thesis. I’ve mentioned the thesis on Tumblr before: it’s tentatively being called The internet and social change for people of diverse gender identities and sexual identities. The official page for the project is davidamrock.com/thesis.
Now I’ve posted a 20-question survey online to try and get more info about people of all different gender identities and sexual identities, of as many different ages and backgrounds with in the US as I can. I’m trying to learn more about how people of different gender identities and sexualities feel about the media and about expressing themselves online. If anyone has a minute to fill out the survey, I’d really appreciate it.
Also, since the thesis itself involves cataloguing people’s personal stories, I’m looking for contributors to share stories about their lives. If the idea of this interests you and you’d like to share something, please let me know. My contact info is on that thesis page.
Thanks to all!
I let it go… because at that point I would’ve become an asshole for “derailing the conversation” and making it about gender. but honestly? I think that these are exactly the kinds of situations in which we need to examine how we are propagating gender-normative behavior in the things we design and build.
YES.
23 Apr 2012 (reblogged from savasavasava)
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savasavasava:
yeah. me. all the time.
theredheadsaid:
this is my life every day
amyvernon:
GPOY.
I may have reblogged this before, but I don’t care. It’s truer than ever before.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_low0kz5yxD1qbr8m0o1_500.jpg)
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yeah. me. all the time.
this is my life every day
GPOY.
I may have reblogged this before, but I don’t care. It’s truer than ever before.
(Source: world-shaker)
22 Apr 2012 (reblogged from globalvoices)
Zainab Alkhawaja pictured here protesting alone on April 21, 2012 outside the Financial Harbor in Manama, Bahrain. Her father, Abdulhadi Alkhawaja, is a prominent human rights activist, on hunger strike in prison.
(Image by @Kareemasaeed)
Poster by the Paris-based design firm Vier5, for an exhibition called “Exposition.”
From their site:
The work of Vier5 is based on a classical notion of design.
Design as the possibility of drafting and creating new, forward-looking images in the field of visual communication.
Though I am generally weary of traditional poster formats, I guess you could read the traditional poster here as a restraint inside which the designer must focus on the newness of the visual. And I think that in 2012, the concept of a “new” visual is a bold one.
Also it’s good that they make their own type. I wish I saw more designers doing that.
