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Field Trip!
Via architizer.com
Oct 2012
Architizer and Google have teamed up to bring architecture fact maps to select cities around the country, including Minneapolis. The Field Trip app uses map technology to share interesting tidbits about buildings, food, and obscure locations near you.
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Call for Open(Art)
Via eyebeam.org
Sep 2012
Eyebeam and Mozilla are hoping to spark change at the intersection of art and the open web. Open(Art) will help realize three “proposals with intentional social impact and an innovative approach to creative technology.” Proposals are due Oct. 15.
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Pop Portraits
Via mediabistro.com
Sep 2012
Campbell Soup Company is taking Warhol-mania one step further with its “Pop Art Portraits.” A new Facebook app turns profile photos into Warholian silkscreens, which—according to the company—could end up as Campbell’s official cover photo.
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View from the Street
Via visualcultureblog.com
Sep 2012
The Visual Culture Blog unpacks Jon Rafman’s new Saatchi Gallery exhibition in London, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, which pulls out unique, “accidental” moments that have been captured by Google’s international, mapping database.
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Smithsonian Cool
Via nytimes.com
Sep 2012
The Smithsonian Institution is attempting to reinvent its “boring” image with a new branding campaign. “It’s not just about preserving the cultural patrimony but about passing it on, and a collection that isn’t attracting new people is not passing it on.”
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Blocking YouTube
Via voanews.com
Sep 2012
After attempting to get the anti-Islam film The Innocence of Muslims blocked on YouTube, the Sudanese government has shut down access to the entire website. Officials say it will only be restored when Google, who owns YouTube, honors their request.
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:-) Birthday, Emoticon!
Via wired.com
Sep 2012
Thirty years ago today, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman sent a message to his computer-science colleagues proposing the first emoticon, unleashing an internet-wide barrage of ASCII-based expressions. To which we say: rock on! \m/
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Iraq Hackerspace
Via wamda.com
Sep 2012
“A thousand years ago, Baghdad was a hub of science, technology, art and philosophy and it can be that again,” says Bilal Ghalib. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, he’s returning to Iraq to start a hackerspace to connect these disciplines.
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Pulverizingly Effective
Via artforum.com
Sep 2012
Petra Cortright makes “pulverizingly effective” art, writes Bruce Sterling. “Her material is scraped from the abyss of Internet pop culture: 8-bit clip art, animated GIF files, free screen savers. Polka dots, dinosaurs, sparkles, fake flames.”