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- Dismayland: Disneyland in the favela
- Choose Privacy: video from the American Library Assoc
- Pimping the Enlightenment
- Linux users may now tidy their desks
- Star Wars Loteria tribute
Dismayland: Disneyland in the favela Posted: 03 May 2010 02:42 AM PDT Artist Jeff Gilette's "Dismayland" series of illustrations imagines the consumer-utopian symbolism of Disneyland amid the gritty reality of a Brazilian hillside favela. Dismayland - Entre Favelas et DisneyLand (via Geisha Asobi) Previously: |
Choose Privacy: video from the American Library Assoc Posted: 02 May 2010 05:46 PM PDT Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo. The American Library Association's "Choose Privacy" week kicks off with a ~20 minute video featuring writers and thinkers talking about the value of privacy in simple, accessible, thought-provoking terms. Included are me, Neil Gaiman, and many others. Produced by Laura Zinger and 20K films, it's a really fine little introduction to subject from the towering heroes of the information revolution: the librarians. Previously: |
Posted: 02 May 2010 10:08 AM PDT Miles Klee analyses the use of Joseph Ducreux's 1793-era self-portrait as an image macro: "An immediate pleasure here is the tension of anachronistic pop sentiment couched in a vernacular that struggles with those meanings and destroys the stylized phrasing of the original text. ... Ducreux's foppish accoutrements today reek of pimpage, of course, but the painting communicates with our moment on weirder wavelengths than that." [The Awl] |
Linux users may now tidy their desks Posted: 02 May 2010 09:46 AM PDT Minimal Linux is a blog for people who like simplicity and freedom: "This site focuses on ways to streamline your Linux-powered life, making it lighter, faster, and easier. More of what you need, less of what you don't." [via Minimal Mac] |
Posted: 02 May 2010 07:25 AM PDT Artist Chepo Peña created a wonderful Star Wars-based tribute to the cards from the Mexican Loteria card-game. Star Wars Loteria (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) |
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