Playford Productions

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wonderous-world: Little Man… by Mac Danzig

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:37:36 -0400

wonderous-world:

Little Man… by Mac Danzig

andresoliva: Sunflower Seeds (Ai Weiwei, 2010).

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:05:04 -0400

andresoliva:

Sunflower Seeds (Ai Weiwei, 2010).

centuriespast: Title: Lekythos: Girl Running Medium: Attic...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:35:31 -0400

centuriespast:

Title: Lekythos: Girl Running

Medium: Attic Red-Figure ware

Dates: c. Mid-5th Century B.C.

Culture: Greek

Staten Island Museum

"When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly."

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:30:01 -0400

“When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.”

- Gretchen Rubin and other celebrated minds on the rhythm of creativity. (via explore-blog)

"You should care because the unexotic underclass can help address one of the biggest inefficiencies..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:23:45 -0400

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You should care because the unexotic underclass can help address one of the biggest inefficiencies plaguing the startup scene right now: the flood of (ostensibly) smart, ambitious young people desperate to be entrepreneurs; and the embarrassingly idea-starved landscape where too many smart people are chasing too many dumb ideas, because they have none of their own (or, because they suspect no one will invest in what they really want to do). The unexotic underclass has big problems, maybe not the Big Problems – capital B, capital P – that get ‘discussed’ at Davos. But they have problems nonetheless, and where there are problems, there are markets.

[…]

There are only so many suit customisation, makeup sampling, music streaming, social eating, discount shopping, experience curating companies that the market can bear. If you’re itching to start something new, why chase the n-th iteration of a company already serving the young, privileged, liberal jetsetter? If you’re an investor, why revisit the same space as everyone else? There is life, believe me, outside of NY, Cambridge, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, L.A. and San Fran.

”

- Despite its questionable parenthetical insinuation that STEM funding goes mainly towards the development of inane apps and its use of the word “wantrepreneur,” this article by MIT’s C.Z. Nnaemeka on “the unexotic underclass” makes some good points about innovating in the middle. (via explore-blog)
Hmmm.

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nevver: Eat dessert first

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:34:17 -0400

nevver:

Eat dessert first

jaymug: Pantone Universe Paint Collection by Valspar Finally.

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:32:58 -0400

jaymug:

Pantone Universe Paint Collection by Valspar

Finally.

leadinq: THIS IS THE HAPPIEST GOAT I HAVE EVER SEEN Again....

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:27:17 -0400

leadinq:

THIS IS THE HAPPIEST GOAT I HAVE EVER SEEN

Again. It’s that cute.

nevver: Okay then

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:25:51 -0400

nevver:

Okay then

jaymug: Wheel of steel by Robin Rhode

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:21:07 -0400

jaymug:

Wheel of steel by Robin Rhode

diamondsonhersoles: tmagazine: The artist Lei Xue’s ‘‘Drinking...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:01:01 -0400

diamondsonhersoles:

tmagazine:

The artist Lei Xue’s ‘‘Drinking Tea’’ series (2007-13) consists of crumpled porcelain cans decorated with traditional Chinese patterns. See the world in blue and white here.

Courtesy of Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

AMAZING

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"A small act is worth a million thoughts."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:46:32 -0400

“A small act is worth a million thoughts.”

- Ai Weiwei (via sommanita)

theartistsmanifesto: Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds, located in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:09:36 -0400

theartistsmanifesto:

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds, located in Tate Modern Turbine Hallis a whole installation consisting of 100 million pieces of art. Each true to sized sunflower is made of porcelain and is hand painted by skilled artisans in a small Chinese town that used to make porcelain for the imperial court. The town supposedly was saved from bankruptcy by making these sunflower seeds.

Porcelain is synonymous with Chinese art and the multitudes of sunflower seeds at first seem to be mass produced and identical; however, each piece is a work of an individual and is unique from the rest.

paigesnopko: Ai Weiwei porcelain sunflower seeds installation

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:09:04 -0400

paigesnopko:

Ai Weiwei porcelain sunflower seeds installation

"[Poetry] will always be in the grass, it will always be necessary to bend over to see it, it will..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:56:44 -0400

“[Poetry] will always be in the grass, it will always be necessary to bend over to see it, it will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. It will always remain the organic function of a happy being, overflowing with all the felicity of language, lying contracted in the native heart ever heavy with its load, and the more happy men there are, the easier it will be to be an artist.”

- [Pasternak, speaking at the International Congress for the Defense of Culture, Paris, June 1935] (via naranjitoo)
Same with ceramics.

therealchipwillis: experimentsinmotion: Cloned Robot Army...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:05 -0400

therealchipwillis:

experimentsinmotion:

Cloned Robot Army Storms Istanbul with Flashlights

Istanbul-based artist Erdal Inci clones sections of video creating an endless array of cloned avatars that appear to flood through the city streets.

Cool![

Holy shit