Madlib just made 30 copies of this mixtape Mind Fusion: African Earwax for the Doomsday Show at Rappcats, Los Angeles 6/20/2015
So bummed we went to this and missed the mixtapes (the event was 12-8pm and I’m pretty sure the cd’s didn’t get there until later in the day).
As I’ve worked to dismantle my own internalized racism and the ways that I privilege whiteness, I’ve learned to resist being ‘othered’ through the use of language. So when someone says, ‘Oh, they did that to you because you’re black,’ I quickly correct them with, ‘No, they did that because they are bigots.’ This often shocks people. I can see the panic in their eyes. Sometimes, their eyes dart about. If there are lot of people, they may get quiet.
Sometimes, someone will try to lessen the blow of my words with some clever deflection. I then come back with, ‘No. They are bigots.’ I name the problem. Trayvon and Michael’s blackness wasn’t the problem. The problem was the negative perceptions of that blackness and what spaces that blackness was ‘allowed’ to occupy. These perceptions are supported, funded, and reinforced by institutionalized racism. Matthew Shepard wasn’t murdered because he was gay. Sakia Gunn wasn’t murdered because she was a lesbian. Matthew and Sakia were murdered by people who made a choice to exercise their bigotry within a culture that deemed Matthew and Sakia ‘others.’
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6.18.15
“Fox News just makes my fucking head explode.”
The onion is more credible than Fox News
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http://ift.tt/1FKpHqw A quick introduction to a new framework for building Node-Based User Interfaces. Uses Reactive Programming with the help of Kefir.js for streams between the nodes and for the UI itself. May be easily extended with Toolkits like PureData (uses Timbre.js, some simple demo exists in a video), as a plugins.
(Source: arkanciscan)
My most recent project is the Curved Chair. As a continuation of my research into planar material, I created the shell of a chair through a single, broad bend. The immediacy of hands-on fabrication is integral to my design process; I believe that working with my hands at full scale is a more helpful way to understand my design in depth. The whole process of creating a model would have been much harder to execute with a computer.
I started out by making a bunch of small-scale models with paper. I was experimenting with different forms and colors to study their respective effects, and after carefully considering the various forms, I was inspired to apply the form to a chair design. I started to build the prototype of Curved Chair with my colleague, designer Hannah Vaughan, who helped me to fabricate the chair. First, we cut a pie-shaped piece away from a circular sheet of thin-gauge steel. We then formed a gentle curve in the metal using a slip roll. We quickly connected the edges with sturdy weld. This simple gesture creates the envelope of the chair shell. When we made the legs, we used a torch to heat up the steel bar and quickly bent it over a custom jig. We made several iterations of the legs to create a beautiful outline and a stable structure. The form of the legs echoes the sweeping curve of shell’s perimeter. The wide seat invites users to have freedom with their posture. The long line of the outside curve also functions as an armrest.
“Parental Advisory Designer Vinyl Skin for Gaming Console And Free Controller Decal for PS4″ via Amazon