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A 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock From His Father
“Well Jack I was glad to learn how you felt about your summer’s work & your coming school year. The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life.”
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Game Girl Workshop inspires young Palestinians to challenge cultural norms
“The stories in most computer games are told from a western, male perspective,” says Hasselager. “To challenge this tendency we thought a good place to start would be to motivate and inspire young teenage girls with game development, to show them that technology can be creative and fun.”
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Breathe New Life Into Classic Techniques With The Animators Survival Kit iPad App
If you’ve ever taken a serious interest in animation it’s likely Richard Williams’ four and a half pound book, The Animators Survival Kit, sits on your shelf. It has been regarded as a seminal reference text—a Bible even—for anyone trying to master making drawings come alive. Williams is heavyweight in the cel-animation world: a three-time Oscar winner, whose resume includes Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Pink Panther and his unfinished masterwork, The Thief and the Cobbler. Wanting to use the interactivity of the iPad, Williams and his producer Imogen Sutton recently compiled a new app-version of the book.
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A submission to the Race Card Project, which asks people to describe their experience with race in six words.
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LEGO & Gender | Feminist Frequency
In part one of my two part LEGO and Gender series, I explored how LEGO went terribly wrong with LEGO Friends and provided a brief history of LEGO’s ridiculous and slightly hilarious attempts to market to girls since the late 70′s. In part two, I delve into how LEGO shifted their products from their initial relatively, gender neutral building experience to a more male dominated and male identified one.
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In This Donkey Kong, Pauline Saves Mario
Reflecting the mores and market dynamics of the videogame industry, Mario has always been the hero, the guy saving damsels in distress. But Mike Mika, a father with a young daughter, decided that it would be fun to mod Donkey Kong so that the damsel was the hero and Mario was the one captured by Kong.
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This is what structural racism looks like.
Chicago, we have to do better.
(via gapers)
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[An] impressive moonrise was imaged two nights ago over Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. With detailed planning, an industrious astrophotographer placed a camera about two kilometers away and pointed it across the lookout to where the Moon would surely soon be making its nightly debut. The above single shot sequence is unedited and shown in real time — it is not a time lapse.
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Elvis Presley’s Signed Library Check-Out Card
A library card bearing the signature of a 13-year-old Elvis Presley was sold at auction for $7,500, doubling estimates. The autograph is believed to be the earliest signature of the King of Rock and Roll.
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The Beautiful Thing That Happens When You Project Video Onto Falling Snow
As snow fell across the northeast over the weekend, Brian Maffitt of Chestnut Ridge, New York, had a brilliant idea: Project a movie, with the falling flakes as his screen. He set up his camera (a Canon EOS 7D) at his upstairs window where a pine tree ensured a dark backdrop, and started filming.
