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Neil Gaiman on Comics

And for me, 25 years on, what I love about this is being able to give this to somebody and say, “See, this is what I mean by comics.” It is not a genre. It is simply a medium. And it’s a medium that you can do anything with. Neil Gaiman.

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The Earth as Man’s canvas

The Big Picture looks at abandoned and incomplete housing developments in South Florida.

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Creativity

Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in […]

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Found functions

I’ve linked to this site via delicious and twitter but I really had to publish something here too, it deserves to be seen by as many people as possible. Found Functions is a short series of photographs by Nikki Graziano that overlay mathematical functions and graphs over shapes in nature. Such a simple idea but executed beautifully: what […]

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7 minutes of genius

MUTO — “An ambiguous animation painted on public walls”.

Absolutely stunning.

Hat tip: Penny Arcade.

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