Finally, a Jeremy Lin product with the absence of any offensive puns! Alex Medina's winning design for the NYT's Jeremy Lin design competition is powerful in its simplicity of type and message. I'm a D-Rose fan everyday but I bought a shirt as a reminder of what the game is all about.
NYT
A piece that I posted about two years ago, and finally found a video of. Two people stand still and sing the headlines to eachother.
Ra Di Martino
August 2008, 2009
16mm film, 5 minutes
In response to Arizona's ban on ethnic studies (primarily Mexican- American) classes, the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) is offering free copies of "500 Years of Chicano History" to any Arizona student and a 50% discount to Arizona residents. 
SWOP store
HB 2281
“Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.”–Philip Ó Ceallaigh, “Another Love Story”The rise of online social networking and the “participatory web” of Web 2.0 has created an atmosphere where participation in online communities is not only facilitated, but actively encouraged. To increase usage of their products, social networking sites attempt to engage users by enlisting algorithms that attempt to predict their relationships to their friends, their obligations, and their own beliefs. These content suggestion engines have met with some success, but their presumptuousness is often a source of user frustration. And as users interact with each other simultaneously with interfaces online, the social side-effects of the human-machine interface, which began with “does not compute” in the 1960s, have developed into a matrix of political nuance.Arend deGruyter-Helfer’s new work uses found text from interactions online, displacing them from the social network environment and recasting them into a long list on a scrollable interface, a gesture towards user impatience. In “Scroll”, deGruyter-Helfer has compiled a surprising and humorous litany of encounters with the unintended meanings, trivial narrations, misplaced censorship, intolerance of solitude, and stubborn quantification of human factors which make up the new lingua franca of the social web.
To our favorite space, Golden Age, who closed their doors today,
We are all very sad but know this will only open doors to many exciting endeavors and adventures. Thank you Golden Age, we love you and wish you the best!
Jasmine Lee shares her insights on the five years of Golden Age, how they helped to shape the art community in Chicago and elsewhere: SFAQ: Goodbye Golden Age.
Our friends Martine Syms and David Elliott are working on a documentary about TV culture in America. Americans watch an average of 5 hours of television, it is not only a way to reflect on our lives but has become a common topic of conversation and a way to relate to the populace. I'm very curious to see what this real normal investigation will reveal.
If you would like to see this project fully realized visit American Ritual to show your support by contributing to their fundraiser and spreading the word.
