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Originally from davidjacobs, on February 17, 2006 10:40 PM

The Responsive Eye catalog commemorates the show of the same name at the MoMA in 1965. A show several years in the making, it was the first to introduce the public to Optical (or "Op") art.

Artists featured in the show and catalog include the well-known Victor Vasarely and Josef Albers as well as the sensational and underappreciated Paul Feeley and collective work by Equipo 57, a group of Spanish artists, among others.

The 54 page catalog is full of inspiring and dizzying images in color and black and white, and highlights the work of these early Op artists and the methods and politics of the movement.

We scored a few of these catalogs and have some available for purchase. They are all used, in good to very good condition, and first (1965) or third (1967) editions. Prices range from $40 to $50 depending on edition and condition. If you're interested drop us a note here, and be sure to mention TRE.

Originally from Cool Hunting, on February 17, 2006 10:39 PM

biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion  

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on February 17, 2006 10:38 PM

I should really buckle down and try writing a PHP app because, at the moment, I have an attitude problem. I know that IBM now officially loves it, and Tim O’Reilly’s been charting the upcurve in PHP book sales, and everyone’s saying that Oracle’s going to buy Zend. If you want your ears bent back, have a listen to Zend CEO Doron Gerstel; he’ll tell you that half the websites in the world are powered by PHP and that there are 2½ million developers and that the war is over and PHP won. So here’s my problem, based on my limited experience with PHP (deploying a couple of free apps to do this and that, and debugging a site for a non-technical friend here and there): all the PHP code I’ve seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places. Everyone agrees on PHP’s upsides: it’s written for the web, it’s easy to deploy and get running, and it’s pretty fast. Those are important advantages. And I’m sure that it’s possible to write clean, comprehensible, maintainable, PHP; only apparently it’s real easy not to. But PHP has competition, most obviously Rails; and don’t write the Java EE crowd off, they’re not stupid at all and they’re trying to learn the lessons that PHP is trying to teach. So PHP has earned everyone’s respect by getting where it is, and Sun should reach out to it more than we have. But in the big picture, it feels vulnerable to me.

Originally from ongoing, on February 17, 2006 10:38 PM

David Davis just wrote a splendid article about the history of the NBA's logo.

It outlines a long-simmering controvery. The thing is, the league has never officially acknowledged that the logo is patterned after former Laker star and current Memphis Grizzlies President Jerry West.

A high-ranking NBA official tells Davis it's "an urban myth" that the logo is based on West.

The guy who actually designed the logo disagrees.

"That's bull----," he said. "I guarantee you that it's Jerry West."

Later in the article, Davis interviews West, who is gracious and humble about the whole thing:

When I asked him if the NBA might have a financial motive for refusing to identify him — that he might be entitled to royalties for the use of his likeness — West chortled. "You publish this story and I'll call (my agent) and find out," he joked.

I have heard from multiple reliable sources through the years that Davis's theory here is the gospel truth: the NBA won't acknowledge that their logo is based on Jerry West, because they never got him to sign anything giving them his permission to use it. If they acknowledge it's him, he could ask for a lot of money.

Petty. The whole seem strikes me as petty. There are too many slimy little things like this around these days. I mean, if the guy who designed the logo is publicly on the record now, it's time for the NBA to 'fess up and make an honest man of that logo.

Originally from True Hoop, on February 17, 2006 10:37 PM

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Originally from Archinect.com Feed, on February 17, 2006 06:48 PM

or, public tracking of a group interest:

Originally from Dembot, on February 17, 2006 06:33 PM

"Guantanamo is a not-place. It's neither America nor Cuba. It is peopled by people without names who face no charges. Non-people facing non-trials to defend non-charges are not a story. They are a headache. No wonder the prisoners went on hunger strikes. Not-eating, ironically enough, is the only way they could try to become real to us."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 17, 2006 05:27 PM

Stewart posted a photo:

Kid is going to be a millionaire, for sure.

Originally from Sylloge, on February 17, 2006 05:25 PM

Holy.... During a commercial break in the counter-terrorism television thriller "24", viewers saw a commercial questioning the wisdom of "weakening" the Patriot Act. "The producers of this ad are playing off fictional fears to create pressure for their point of view on legislative reality. I think it's unique." Peter Hart, a Democratic-leaning pollster.

It's brilliant. It seems unethical. It certainly reduces an important and very complex problem to a simple marketing scheme. If I agreed with their position, I might be less troubled by this. And I'll bet it's the wave of the future.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on February 17, 2006 05:20 PM

I've generally stopped making new investments other than in particularly exceptional situations. However, last.fm is one of those exceptions and I wanted to let you know that I invested together with Reid Hoffman, CEO of LinkedIn and Stefan Glänzer, CEO of 20six Weblog Services AG in the UK in October. It is the first time I've invested in this trilateral formation, but with the company in the UK, a lot of potential partners in the US and a big market in Japan, this team seems to make sense. Apologies for the late announcement, but we've been working on some deals that made it difficult for me to talk about our investment publicly. I wrote about the first in 2004 and later in 2005 after they did the redesign. I'm really happy that after working with them for years now, our relationship is now more formal and aligned. Please see the links above or go to their site for more information about the service.

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Originally from Joi Ito's Web, on February 17, 2006 05:20 PM

Chloé Poizat has a wonderful painted collage style to her illustrations. Her simple website doesn’t give much information about her, but it’s an impressive portfolio nonetheless.

Originally posted by Johnny from Drawn! The Illustration Blog, on February 17, 2006 02:38 PM

Toppan, one of Japan's largest printing companies, has released a series of artist slide shows for viewing on iPods. The Artstar series consist of up to 175 images provided by the artists, which, when installed on your iPod, can be viewed while you listen to music.

No need of music for me as among the artists who have signed up are Yoshitomo Nara, Atsushi Fukui and Kenji Yanobe.

Via Off Center and eyeteeth.

Originally from we make money not art, on February 17, 2006 02:38 PM

a treemap visualization based on the huge flickr image collection. the application takes any form/length of text input & generates a collage with images that have related concepts & affect structure.
conceptually, flickr is considered as an enormous pool of memories of people. the system uses natural language processing, concept reasoning, & textual affect sensing techniques to collect all the related memories. see also flickrland collage & flickrland visualization. [mit.edu|thnkx James & Edward]

Originally posted by infosthetics from information aesthetics, on February 17, 2006 12:13 AM