My friend Michael makes the perfect city shot.
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Brian Thomas Collins
The Possible Impossible
His home had everything he required to live well: oxygen, light, and a relaxing angle of repose.
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Though they’re often silly in retrospect, concept designs are a powerful tool. They’re lucid dreaming that the public gets to share in.
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My four years of art history condensed to a clumsy chart. Cool and depressing, simultaneously.
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Long before Los Angeles became the driving capital of the world, many Angelenos relied on the local rail lines like most major cities. This short documentary, A Ride on the Last of the Red Cars, shows the quaint, nostalgic L.A. of 1961, before buses and car culture consumed Southern California.
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The perfect counterpart to our lovely vintage color wheel? Gorgeous, vintage crayons of course. Swoon!
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Brilliant but annoying little overachiever.
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We were taught to create the future.
In 1971 Channel 5, a local Boston TV station, produced a program on my class at Bridge School as we learned computer programming. We had been given two small rooms with a large window between them to work the technology, including a cool graphics turtle that ran on a display powered by a Data General computer. We learned how to create graphics and music. We used Logo over phone lines linked to a time-shared Digital Equipment Corp PDP-10 back at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in Cambridge.
Seymour Papert, an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language. Our class at Bridge School was part of his early work on using computers to spark childrens’ imaginations.
“The idea is quite simple - let a child learn mathematics by speaking in mathematics about things that really matter to him. … the child can make the computer do anything that he can describe in a suitable mathematical language.”
“The ability to “read” a medium means you can access materials and tools created by others. The ability to “write” in a medium means you can generate materials and tools for others. You must have both to be literate. In print
writing, the tools you generate are rhetorical; they demonstrate and convince. In computer writing, the tools you generate are processes; they simulate and decide.”
After reading this quote from Alan Kay, I wonder what my nieces and nephews gain - and loose - by having access to geometrically more power in the iPods I gave them.
(I just found this video and was thrilled to see my classmate Martha Burri.)
It’s only Sunday afternoon and this video already made my whole week.
It asks: “Why the hell have we stopped dreaming?”
I, like all my friends born in the 1960’s, lived in a world where everything we saw around us - in school, at home, in architecture, in cars, in clothing, in our play, in toys, on the news and in our entertainment - was about making tomorrow arrive - and way ahead of schedule.
We all were focused on getting the future to happen. Our Golden Age was not behind us - it was ahead of us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson passionately articulates the kind of vision we need to engage ourselves once again in the deliberate making of tomorrow. And what we should use as an engine to get us there.
Let’s climb back on.
