Viewing: Pedro Jorge Romero

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Un corto divertido. Director, animator, and puppeteer Bretislav Pojar explores human fallibility though simple paper cutout shapes in Balablok (1972). A masterful piece of wordless storytelling, the stop motion short film won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or du court métrage in 1973. From the National Film Board of Canada: Here is an animated replay […] Read More

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Qué chulo: From the National Film Board of Canada and director René Jodoin, this is Notes on a Triangle (1966), a ballet of three hundred geometric transformations, animated into divisions, alignments, and patterns. Waltz music by Maurice Blackburn. Per Enriching Mathematics, "Imagine replacing the triangle with a kite, or a rhombus, or an arrowhead, or..." […] Read More

Lo más raro es descubrir que sabes quién es John Giorno. Por cierto: A Show of Love for John Giorno’s Poetry, Art, and Life […] Read More

Una tradición anual. Todo lo nuevo es viejo otra vez: The Borrowed Man, de Gene Wolfe The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, de Gil Fronsdal Zona, de Geoff Dyer Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world, de Timothy Brook You're never weird on the internet (almost), de […] Read More

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El país en cuestión es Suecia, y desde hace unos días te lo puedes descargar en forma de mapa para Minecraft: Full Sweden as virtual and playable world in Minecraft! It becomes a reality when the National Land Survey releases a landscape model to the popular computer game. The model is based on the maps […] Read More

While cannibalism is not an unknown practice, especially in times of famine, it was never as widespread as shown in these 16th-century atlases. Maps, going back to antiquity, have always been about more than just charting geography; they affirm structures of power, including the control of unseen land, and act as an imperialist tool for reinforcing […] Read More

Qué pinta más estupenda tiene este juego: A board/lever game of marbles and balance, in homage to the Greek mathematician of the same name. Origen: 'Rock Me Archimedes' Marble Balance Game — Tools and Toys […] Read More

Qué monos: Students at Lemmchen elementary school in Mainz, near Frankfurt, Germany perform Kraftwerk’s classic “Die Roboter,” complete with adorable cardboard robot costumes. Origen: ‘We are the Robots’: German elementary school kids do Kraftwerk | Dangerous Minds h/t Xavier […] Read More

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Lo he generalizado: Sometimes writing it wrong is writing it better. Origen: A Glimpse Into the Creative Writing Process | Scott Adams Blog […] Read More

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And then it occurs to me: maybe Twitter — maybe social media more generally — really is a young person's thing after all. Intrinsically, not just accidentally. Origen: Twitter and emotional resilience - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis […] Read More

De estas ideas fascinantes... From far away Czech artist Jakub Geltner's works appear as flocks of birds, seagulls and pigeons gathered on clusters of rocks or resting just beneath a busy overpass. When one looks closer however they realize the groupings are not perched birds, but rather surveillance cameras and satelli Origen: Artist Installs Flocks […] Read More

Un curioso comentario sobre el infinito (y la matemática en general) en los cómics de Marvel (con una breve incursión en DC). La idea es que un universo de ese tipo contiene varios seres omniscientes y omnipotentes que sin embargo están claramente ordenados siguiendo una jerarquía donde algunos de esos seres son más poderosos que […] Read More