DetroitTechno.org presents a documentary (
1 2 3) about the history and politics of techno with a focus on the
Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now called
Movement, from its inception in 2000 until the most recent one in 2010.
[more inside]
posted by gman
on May 15, 2011 -
26 comments
Beginning with Slow Food in 1986, the idea of rejecting the "
cult of speed" has gradually spread from a focus on food into other fields. In his book
In Praise of Slow,
Carl Honore explores the spread of the worldwide
Slow movement, urging greater attention to all aspects of daily life, human relationships, and the quality of experience. Meanwhile, on the web, witness the spread of Slow. Slow down your stuff with
Slow Home,
Slow Travel,
Slow Fashion,
Slow Art,
Slow Craft,
Slow Design. Relax with some
Slow Reading; check out a
Slow Read from a
Slow Library. Plan for
Slow Cities governed by
Slow Leadership. Use
Slow Schooling,
Slow Research, and the
Slow University to explore
Slow Science and
Slow Math. Bank with
Slow Money [PDF]. Explore the world with
Slow Travel, using
Slow Fuel for
Slow Transportation. What's the rush? Come on. Take it easy.
posted by Miko
on Nov 26, 2007 -
60 comments
I was wandering around the internets looking for early twentieth century ephemera and look what I found.
Digital Dada Library
“This page provides links to some of the major Dada-era publications in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. …Each document has been scanned in its entirety.”
EphemeraNow “is a family-friendly Web site dedicated to the commercial art of mid-century America.”
The Ephemera Society “is a non-profit body concerned with the collection, preservation, study and educational uses of printed and handwritten ephemera.”
and more!
For those of you who have complained that this place is getting too “US politics-filter” I give you
Glasgow Digital Library Collections which has all sorts of stuff including a great
history of the labour movement in Glasgow 1910-1932
posted by Grod
on Oct 26, 2004 -
10 comments
The Iranian Secular Opposition Movement. I came upon this via another
item I found on Plastic.com. (Where, BTW, one of the more cogent comments in the related thread was by one MayorBob) So, I'm wondering where does this lead to? The first line of that wretched 60s hit
Eve Of Destruction does come to mind... Has anyone else heard anything about this?
posted by y2karl
on Oct 25, 2001 -
6 comments
Your eyes never stop moving. Even though we are rarely aware of them,
our eye movements are incredibly complex. They are also very informative. Eye movement data is being used to study
painters painting,
art lovers loving art,
drivers driving,
musicians sight reading, and
speakers speaking, not to mention the cognitive science staples of
reading and
scene viewing. One interesting application of eye movement data is the
Eyetrack2000 project, which attempts to describe the eye movement behavior of people viewing news websites in order to improve web page design. Some of the
findings suggest that the internet and print media are different in important ways: on the web, text is fixated before pictures; in print, pictures are fixated first.
posted by iceberg273
on Oct 24, 2001 -
10 comments
"You are about to activate
your first gesture command in Opera. A gesture command is activated by pressing the right mouse button, and while holding it down, performing a simple movement with the mouse, and then releasing the button"... such as left going back a page, or down opening a new window. Aliens bless gesture interfaces, and Molyneux.
posted by holloway
on Apr 11, 2001 -
17 comments
