Once upon a spacetime...: Archive

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Oct 28th

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Oct 27th

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clintonmckay replied to your post: clintonmckay replied to your photo: Progress. I… Oh great! I had seen the pages post-printing but I didn’t realize you were using the satanic verses :D I think they’re beautiful. I can’t believe you’re able to print on the front and back of the pages, shouldn’t they be too thin for that? That’s why I’ve chosen lithography for this piece: the...

Oct 27th

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“We all go through life assuming that time is an external river that flows past...”

– In a fantastic interview, neuroscientist David Eagleman shares insight on time and our capacity to know. Related, 7 essential books on understanding time from a cross-disciplinary perspective. (via curiositycounts)

Oct 23rd

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clintonmckay replied to your photo: Progress. I have that copy of the Satanic Verses… I’m not sure what you’re doing with it here haha Using litho to print over the back and front of each and every page. One side blue, one side red. It has to do with wavelengths of light: red shift and blue shift. I plan to suspend them across a room, so the colours ‘move’ as the viewer walks...

Oct 23rd

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Oct 20th

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Oct 20th

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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”

– Neil Gaiman (via petrichorstars)

Oct 19th

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“Our story, is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, everything you...”

– Brian Cox (via eternal-armistice) What a sad, terrifying idea. Trying to romanticize Materialism is senseless at best and madness at worst. We are so much greater, so much grander and intrinsically worth so much more than stars and have been given a far better future than to disappear into the...

Oct 16th

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“Our story, is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, everything you...”

– Brian Cox (via eternal-armistice)

Oct 16th

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“I got Nasa to loan me a moon rock, carbon-dated 3.6 billion years old. I put it...”

– How Bill Clinton “defused the madness” as President | FT.com (via somethingchanged)

Oct 16th

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Oct 15th

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Oct 14th

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Oct 13th

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“Cosmology has advanced to such an extent that we now can say with confidence...”

– NPR on this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics which was given to a trio of astronomers who made an extraordinary discovery in 1998: that the universe not only is expanding, but it’s doing so at an accelerated rate. (via crookedindifference)

Oct 13th

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Why Praising Effort is Better than Praising... →

samclifford: suuugoi: brainscience: “In her own research, Dweck has shown that these mindsets have important practical implications. Her most famous study, conducted in twelve different New York City schools along with Claudia Mueller, involved giving more than 400 fifth graders a relatively easy test consisting of nonverbal puzzles. After the children finished the test, the researchers told...

Oct 13th

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“The Phantom Tollbooth” is not just a manifesto for learning; it is a manifesto...”

– Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker This is just a really great article about a really great book. (via ryeisenberg)

Oct 11th

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Oct 10th

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“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only...”

– The Independent Book Review: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead That Philip Pullman quote again, which made me think of George RR Martin, another master storyteller and immensely enjoyable author. (via isay)

Oct 10th

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Oct 9th

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Oct 9th

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Monday: Print at uni then go to work. Tuesday: Print at uni then go to work. Wednesday: Print at uni then go to work. Thursday: Print all day at uni. Friday: Print at uni then go to work. Mentally prepare for disappointment. Saturday: Exhibition opening for Box Hill art prize. Sunday: Print all day at uni. Rinse and repeat-ish for a month until I hand everything up for assessment and graduate. ...

Oct 9th

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Oct 8th

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Oct 8th

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Oct 7th

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Oct 7th

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Oct 5th

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““No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...”

– ~Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford commencement speech (via likesandlaunch) The Internet’s doing a pretty good job at making me sadder about the passing of Steve Jobs than I expected. (via mudwerks)

Oct 5th

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