So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Ok, this is probably my last Mad Men post, having done two already (here and here), I think I’m ready to be finished thinking about what doesn’t quite work for me about the show–even though I watch it pretty regularly. Mad Men is all about details, whether in historical accuracy, beautiful sets, or subtle interplays [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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All of the projects exhibited at the opening of Toward the Sentient City explore the future of the urban environment. Haque Design + Research created the Natural Fuse project, which wires plants into a network in order to both generate power and offset CO2 created by that power. The project addresses not only power generation [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This year and next, I’m living on a super-fixed income, being in graduate school at the New School in New York and all. Since I’m doing production work as part of my degree, I hemmed and hawed for six months before investing in a beautiful, $4,000 Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera that shoots [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Starting at the Cité de l’Immigration and moving on to the Musée du Quai Branly provides a route to understanding how the role of “primitive” art in France has changed over the past couple of decades. Originally the Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens (and where much of the collection for the new Musée du [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Funny things happen when you join your experiences to a group. I was at the New York Public Library‘s reference room, which is a stunning space and a lovely place to do research, even if you don’t need a book from their in-house collection. I took a snapshot on my cell phone and played with [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This amazing series of images and observations got me thinking about Mad Men, a show that I’ve enjoyed watching but might have stopped watching because of a certain brittle quality to the themes. I pushed through, and do appreciate the show’s impeccable writing and production. Mad Men is beautiful but brutal in its own way, [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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The New York Times has a set of blogs with commenting enabled, with some having a limited time window for response, and some unlimited. I often read posts, and for the first time, was prompted to respond to this one this week. It was, for the most part, an interesting response by Robert Mackey to [...]
Posted on May 17th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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What exactly is clean coal? The term refers to coal produced by new technologies for capturing and sequestering coal by-products that reduces the harmful impacts of coal on the environment. Does clean coal exist? No. The emerging technologies referred to have not moved from concept to reality, despite billions of dollars of investment since 2001 [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This whole tea party thing looks highly dangerous. Even though estimates of how many turned out for the tea party protests are relatively modest, it’s still a significant number, and the whole event could spiral into a much larger movement through media mishandling.
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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