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Tennis Court Business Card
Brazil-based art directors Antonio Correa and Rodrigo Ribeiro, along with copywriter Rodrigo Strozenberghave come up with a unique and clever business card design for the Denia Salu Tennis Academy based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Google Now, Anticipatory Systems, and the Future of Big Data | MIT
If the last century was marked by the ability to observe the interactions of physical matter—think of technologies like x-ray and radar—this century, he says, is going to be defined by the ability to observe people through the data they share…”
Really not sure I am willing to extend the Faustian bargain that far (adds Gerd)
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Unobstructed view of the Mont Blanc at “Le Panoramique” restaurant in Le Brévent, Chamonix, France. Photo by Lu Chien-Ping)
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Here’s the premiere of The Black Constellation’s short film (Sparkles)…Recollections of the Wraith, named after (and featuring) two songs by Shabazz Palaces, the Seattle-based hip-hop collective led by Ishmael Butler and Tendai ‘Baba’ Maraire. This film is the twelfth part of An Ode To Octavia, a thirteen-part adornment, performance, and object-based ritual that began in the fall of 2010 and is dedicated to science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. See more in our interview with Ishmael Butler in the upcoming July/August Believer music issue.
“Words—the older you get, you realize they’re just concepts, and they can be mixed and matched, juxtaposed. Flipped, inverted. Nothing is concrete, necessarily, in terms of the meaning of things. The mood of things varies, not only from person to person, but within the same person from minute to minute, however situations carry and deepen.” (Ishmael Butler)
Cities are finding useful ways of handling a torrent of data | The Economist
Many cities around the country are accumulating data faster than they know what to do with. One approach is to give them to the public. For example, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago are or soon will be sharing the grades that health inspectors give to restaurants with an online restaurant directory.
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