June 19, 2013   3 notes
June 13, 2013   111 notes
installator:


“Picasso’s Guernica painting turns 75 years old this year, and in order to have it restored, Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum has designed a robot capable of scanning the entire painting for signs of wear and places where restoration is needed the most. The museum teamed up with Spanish telecommunication company Telefonica to build Pablito, as it’s now called, and the robot goes to work every night taking thousands of high-resolution pictures of the famous black and white anti-war painting.” (Reuters) [Feb, 2012]

Very cool.
Of course, now this joke has to be make.

installator:

“Picasso’s Guernica painting turns 75 years old this year, and in order to have it restored, Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum has designed a robot capable of scanning the entire painting for signs of wear and places where restoration is needed the most. The museum teamed up with Spanish telecommunication company Telefonica to build Pablito, as it’s now called, and the robot goes to work every night taking thousands of high-resolution pictures of the famous black and white anti-war painting.” (Reuters) [Feb, 2012]

Very cool.

Of course, now this joke has to be make.

June 12, 2013   100 notes
jonyiveredesignsthings:

Jony Ive redesigns America.
Credit @agapov

jonyiveredesignsthings:

Jony Ive redesigns America.

Credit @agapov

June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013   3 notes
June 6, 2013
June 4, 2013   2 notes

“ Art should never be Interesting. Wikipedia is Interesting. Nightmares are Interesting. But to feign Interest in other people’s art is just smug. Don’t be so fond and fatherly about it … The real reason to go to an art gallery is to witness a small number of people elaborate publicly on their own confused striving, beyond explanation or accountability or compromise. You don’t see that just anywhere. In a gallery, one finds all the raw elements of fear and desire, the most dim and keening shapes, smiling strangely from the backyards of awareness and submitted painfully for general inspection. This is not what you might find at, say, Boston Pizza. ”

Stupid for Art, Mark Mann (via studiesinsemicolons)

Also this:

“we try to make art Interesting when we should just let it be weird.”

June 4, 2013   1 note
June 4, 2013   21 notes
June 3, 2013   3 notes
robbrulinski:

How-to fix public transportation.

True. And you get control over the office thermostat.

robbrulinski:

How-to fix public transportation.

True.

And you get control over the office thermostat.