.Ellen Lupton does it again! Another brilliant, on-target, must-read book❤️

Eric Rodenbeck and I have been untangling/theorizing/cooking something up for a long time coming. Join us May 18 as we share exciting news and explore implications for digital collecting ⁦Eric Rodenbeck⁩ ⁦Stamen Design (@[email protected])⁩ ⁦Cooper Hewitt⁩ cooperhewitt.org/event/behind-t…

Apollo 11 astronauts had to submit a US Customs form on return from — the moon?? Departure from: Moon Cargo: Moon rock and moon dust 🤯

Stunning timelapse of the Earth rising over the Moon captured by Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft Kaguya. Credit: JAXA/NHK

There’s still so much to explore in how we collect and care for interactive digital works, so chipping away at our stewardship models remains deeply important. As Fernando Domínguez Rubio identified, works of digital media must be in perpetual motion to stay alive. So here’s to trying

Watercolor Maptiles website by ⁦Stamen Design (@[email protected])⁩ enters ⁦Cooper Hewitt⁩ collection⁩. That’s cool, but what’s cooler is how we did it, by creating a live version of the site hosted on Smithsonian’s domain and servers and available under CC license cooperhewitt.org/2021/05/18/wat…

Collections! Thinking beyond the exhibition! Everything is digital (and not hi-res)! Love this. It will take visionary leadership to change the emphasis and recalibrate staff time post-covid towards new ways of doing nytimes.com/2021/05/21/art…

BREAKING: New York Senate becomes first legislative body in the United States to pass right to repair legislation. Incredible win for people who have been fighting for this for years vice.com/en/article/93y…

The Substitute is a video work we acquired in 2019 into our nascent Digital Design collection. I’m excited to unpack tonite the issues and questions it provokes—de-extinction efforts, bioengineering ethics, strange natures—with Daisy and conservation scientist Dr. Kent Redford

Don't forget when celebrating this weekend: It's the 100th anniversary of this iconic party.

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What a fantastic contribution to the field! Rhizome is always a great resource for those of us working in the sphere of collecting and caring for born-digital work, and consolidating their documentation and research is a win for all

Yes, finally! After years of work and untangling how to do this, I’m proud that we did it. Major kudos to a partner like Stamen Design (@[email protected]) and Eric Rodenbeck who were crazy enough to let us try

Absolutely devastating and unbelievable

Thousands of years ago, Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood to create snow goggles. This diminished exposure to direct and reflected ultraviolet rays thereby reducing eye strain and preventing snow blindness.

this is the best opening to a technical book the world has ever seen and i will fight anyone who says otherwise

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees, Creating Perfectly Straight Lumber openculture.com/2020/10/daisug…

After crossing the road she gives thanks ! A wonderful creatures ♥

"In developing a deeper understanding of intelligence, it would be a serious mistake to ignore the only design process which has lead to general intelligence: biological evolution." Agreed! I'm so very much looking forward to seeing #AI related fields other than #ML #NN flourish!