How often do you buy a new computer? After two years? Four? For such complex products, we go through them pretty quick, and that adds up to a lot of ultra harmful e-waste.

It’s something computer companies are already striving for, but designer Je Sung Park is taking the idea of a recyclable computer to its furthest limits. His Recyclable Paper Laptop is made from pulp and reprocessed materials, and would be broken down into the…

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Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown.

I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe…

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An enjoyable collection of thoughts about where the internet is (or could be) going…

Original article: Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World

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re:activekicked off our billboard design project with Design Ignites Change here in Portland, OR on Saturday.

We are very excited to use the space typically available to corporations (the billboard) and use it for the purpose of getting youth voices out in the world. These are important voices and the chosen theme for the project is “Tolerance”. We feel that it touches everyone in some way and that it is open enough to allow for many approaches…

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$60 Million Initiative by Knight Foundation to Improve the Arts in South Florida.

* Submission Period: Nov 1, 2009 to Nov. 21, 2009
* Theme: Miami-Dade County Commission’s recent arts funding discussion
* Eligible Applicants: Miami-Dade residents, no previous haiku experience
* Prizes: 1st prize is $500, 2nd is $250 and five others will receive honorable mention and $100

Original article: Do You Haiku? at Knight Arts

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The original premise of the activity was simple, it was basically just to recruit Guangzhou residents who support Chen Yang, an outspoken Guangzhou CCTV news anchor who is not afraid to say what’s on his mind. However, the activity has evolved into a collective expression of love that everyone in the city can participate in, this is “Guangzhou Supports You! 2.0.”

Original article: interview | a chat with fire from “guangzhou supports you!” /// NeochaEDGE

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They helped bring hip-hop to the mainstream, revitalized the career of Aerosmith and now, Run-DMC could be headed to Broadway.

Original article: Run-DMC Musical Is Planned – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com

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Apparently making this film made Lars Von Trier feel better. Does it make you feel better? I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve enjoyed most of his films. Looking forward to this one.

Original article: NY Times Movie Review – Antichrist – In Satan’s Church, an Eden Besieged

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Antimatters of the Art

Jonathon Keats is an artist-philosopher whose conceptual projects have examined everything from the nature of the divine (he tried to engineer God in a petri dish) to the sexuality of plants (he built a pornography theater for them). While Keats’s projects are often both whimsical and beautiful on the outside, at their center are deep questions about the nature of life and the universe. In short, it is conceptual art that actually makes…

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Raising Profiles

Looking at one hillside favela outside Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2008, you would have seen its residents staring back at you—their portraits covered dozens of its crumbling houses.

It was the work of a photographer and street artist known as JR, who, since 2004, has been waging a guerrilla campaign to raise the profiles of people living in some of the world’s most difficult places. For his public projects, which are often monumental…

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How often do you buy a new computer? After two years? Four? For such complex products, we go through them pretty quick, and that adds up to a lot of ultra harmful e-waste.

It’s something computer companies are already striving for, but designer Je Sung Park is taking the idea of a recyclable computer to its furthest limits. His Recyclable Paper Laptop is made from pulp and reprocessed materials, and would be broken down into the…

Read & Discuss

Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown.

I’d have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other’s work. Maybe…

Read & Discuss

An enjoyable collection of thoughts about where the internet is (or could be) going…

Original article: Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World

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re:activekicked off our billboard design project with Design Ignites Change here in Portland, OR on Saturday.

We are very excited to use the space typically available to corporations (the billboard) and use it for the purpose of getting youth voices out in the world. These are important voices and the chosen theme for the project is “Tolerance”. We feel that it touches everyone in some way and that it is open enough to allow for many approaches…

Read & Discuss

$60 Million Initiative by Knight Foundation to Improve the Arts in South Florida.

* Submission Period: Nov 1, 2009 to Nov. 21, 2009
* Theme: Miami-Dade County Commission’s recent arts funding discussion
* Eligible Applicants: Miami-Dade residents, no previous haiku experience
* Prizes: 1st prize is $500, 2nd is $250 and five others will receive honorable mention and $100

Original article: Do You Haiku? at Knight Arts

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The original premise of the activity was simple, it was basically just to recruit Guangzhou residents who support Chen Yang, an outspoken Guangzhou CCTV news anchor who is not afraid to say what’s on his mind. However, the activity has evolved into a collective expression of love that everyone in the city can participate in, this is “Guangzhou Supports You! 2.0.”

Original article: interview | a chat with fire from “guangzhou supports you!” /// NeochaEDGE

…
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They helped bring hip-hop to the mainstream, revitalized the career of Aerosmith and now, Run-DMC could be headed to Broadway.

Original article: Run-DMC Musical Is Planned – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com

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Apparently making this film made Lars Von Trier feel better. Does it make you feel better? I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve enjoyed most of his films. Looking forward to this one.

Original article: NY Times Movie Review – Antichrist – In Satan’s Church, an Eden Besieged

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Logos represent corporate identity. It is one of the most important elements in a company’s public image. First impressions are important and logos should capture the attention of potential clients. This makes logo design one of the most difficult aspects of graphics design for any designer. The following are some creative logos that you can draw inspiration from that displays elements of the current trends in modern logo design – negative spacing, creative typography, illustrated…

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Each summer Beam commissions a Project Master to design a unique large-scale collaborative endeavor that campers produce and enjoy. For summer 2009 we selected a proposal entitled “Float With The Flowers” by architects Christine Baumgartner and Manuel Kretzer.

Sixty-five campers and the Beam staff worked for four weeks to construct two extraordinary structures, comprised of wooden balls and dowels, that stand closed on land and blossom open on water. Part puzzle and sculpture, Beam campers explored…

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Antimatters of the Art

Jonathon Keats is an artist-philosopher whose conceptual projects have examined everything from the nature of the divine (he tried to engineer God in a petri dish) to the sexuality of plants (he built a pornography theater for them). While Keats’s projects are often both whimsical and beautiful on the outside, at their center are deep questions about the nature of life and the universe. In short, it is conceptual art that actually makes…

Read & Discuss

Raising Profiles

Looking at one hillside favela outside Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 2008, you would have seen its residents staring back at you—their portraits covered dozens of its crumbling houses.

It was the work of a photographer and street artist known as JR, who, since 2004, has been waging a guerrilla campaign to raise the profiles of people living in some of the world’s most difficult places. For his public projects, which are often monumental…

Read & Discuss

Ad Hominem: Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign is cleaning up the streets.

Advertisements are ubiquitous in American cities. They seem to grow out of the sidewalks and descend from the sky. Most of us take for granted the thousands of ads we see each day, as though they were intrinsic elements of our neighborhoods. But some people take them out of the picture.

Jordan Seiler began covering public advertisements with simple patterns or blank, soothing images in…

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There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

Public space belongs to everyone: you, people you know, people you don’t know, and people you’ll never know. And that mystery is magical. Anything can happen because everyone is invited. Who are these people, why are they there, and what are they passionate about and good at? And how are they an integral part of your home, even if you’ve never met them before?

There are enough potential spectators and collaborators…

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From cicadas who hibernate for 17 years to checkerboard-camouflaged cuttlefish, some animals have powers that border on the super. Artists Kenichi Okada and Chris Woebken have created three devices designed to give children a chance to experience heightened animal senses. For example, their Bird Device..
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