LEGO “The poetry of bees” (via d-higdon)
After seeing this picture you have to read this.
“However this mess ends up, my thoughts are that maybe it’s time to rethink all this museum, opera and symphony funding — and I refer mainly to state funding. A bunch of LA museums just got a bailout from LA real estate king Eli Broad, and that’s great, but I suspect there will be county money involved there somewhere too. I think maybe it’s time to stop, or more reasonably, curtail somewhat, state investment in the past — in a bunch of dead guys (and they are mostly guys, and mostly dead, when we look at opera halls) — and invest in our future. Take that money, that $14 million from the city, for example, let some of those palaces, ring cycles and temples close — forgo some of those $32M operas — and fund music and art in our schools. Support ongoing creativity in the arts, and not the ongoing glorification and rehashing of the work of those dead guys. Not that works of the past aren’t inspirational, important and relevant to future creativity — plenty of dead people’s work is endlessly inspiring — but funding for arts in schools has been cut to zero in many places. Maybe the balance and perspective has to be redressed and restored just a little. Plus, there are plenty of CDs and DVDs of the dead guys out there already, should one be curious.” — David Byrne’s Journal: 12.12.09: Art Funding or Arts Funding (link via http://mrs-random.blogspot.com) (via mrrandom) (via notational)
New England Imperial Stout Trooper arrives next week
If you’re a beer geek in the New England area make sure you get your hands on some of this Imperial Stout by New England Brewing making it’s debut next week.
Donald Clark’s matrix of values and principles of agile design for learning:
These value and principles make Agile more adaptive rather than predictive; and people-oriented rather than process-oriented (Fowler, 2003).
via Donald Clark
traffic fatalities in the United Kingdom
Visualizar’09 - Public Data, Data in Public: Projects Overview - information aesthetics
Kulturometer - visualizations of the resources allocated to each cultural niche in Madrid
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SUMMA BRANDING: Tipografías de fantasía
boxwood type from new zealand
#uksnow - real-time snow reports from twitter. reports are indicated by a specific tag, a postcode component (not the new geotagged twitter info) and a set scale.
