Monumental minimalist, sculptor Richard Serra is 70 today…
“Emerging in the 1960s, he was part of a generation of artists who worked to redefine what sculpture could be. After experimenting with a variety of materials, he settled on thick sheets of steel as his preferred material, and went on to create some of the most frightening spaces imaginable.” (Source - the fine Daily Icon site)
First Television Transmission: Felix The Cat, 1928
“During the early days of television development it was necessary to monitor and adjust the quality of the transmitted picture in order to get the best definition. To do this, engineers required an ‘actor’ to constantly be under the burning studio lights as they tweaked and sharpened the image, and Felix fit the bill perfectly. He was the right colour (black and white), impervious to the heat from the lights and worked cheaply (in fact a one-off payment was all that was required). RCA’s first experimental television transmissions began in 1928 by station W2XBS (New York-Channel #1) in Van Cortlandt Park and then moved to the New Amsterdam Theater Building, transmitting 60 line pictures. The 13” Felix the Cat figure made of paper mache was placed on a record player turntable and was broadcast using a mechanical scanning disk to an electronic kinescope receiver.”
Hardy Boys Book Cover—The House on the Cliff (via finsbry)
gosh this is beautiful
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Cartoon based on microsyntax!
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Cartoon based on microsyntax!
[via @kathysierra]
Listening to gdgt http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=290102878
Only in New York. A spontaneous serenade to the opening of the highline park in Chelsea — wonderful #p
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Tweetdeck brings Techcrunch to it’s knees #p
John Borthwick
email: john@betaworks.com
mobile: 646 244 0245
From my handheld, excuse the typos
We are excited at betaworks to announce the launch of microsyntax.org — a non profit to help shape and codify the use of structured syntax within real time streams.
“we are launching a new non-profit, Microsyntax.org, with the purpose of investigating the various ways that individuals and tool vendors are trying to innovate around this sort of microsyntax, trying to define reference use cases that illuminate the ways they may be used or interpreted, and to create a forum where alternative approaches can be discussed and evaluated. We may even get involved in the development of proof-of-concept implementations that can act as reference architectures for microsyntactic extensions to the Twitter grammar emerging in the real time stream.”
Stowe Boyd is leading the effort — charter funding from us and TAG — details and the manifesto on the site, welcome, microsyntax.org.
i love how the freemium meme has evolved and grown. and now we even have a wordpress theme!
@dcburton has been hanging out with tulkus?!@ … #p
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Think friendly seal is pregnant. He needs to get out of LI and head north #p
An invite to twitter followers to my brothers book signing this thursday — 6-8pm @Dashwoods books, Bond Street, NYC #p
Brilliant magazine cover #p
