June 2011
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Watch“Stable Song”, Death Cab for Cutie, 2006
When I made this, very new to directing, I was exhuming eschatological anxieties and memories from growing up in Cold War.
Then 9 or 8 years old, Max Records (who would go to star in Where the Wild Things Are) and I had deep conversations about the meaning of it.
He had no conception of nuclear holocaust, but had lived through...
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WatchReceipt Racer (more info, via notgames)
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Unfinished: Brian Eno and Konrad Glogowski
Pair this Konrad Glogowski…
I no longer view the texts produced by learners as definitive pronouncements or conclusive statements on assigned topics. Texts are tentative attempts to construct knowledge and, if they are produced within a community of inquiry-oriented peers, they will lead to further knowledge building and meaning-making. […]
So, teaching, the way I see it, is what Michael...
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Heading somewhere…
Clive Thompson on Instagram:
I’m not a super visual person; I do not normally take a lot of photos. But now I am, and do. Whenever you join a new social network, there’s this sudden, gentle pressure to, y’know, be more interesting. In the case of Twitter, that manifests itself as a pressure to post ever-more-cool undiscovered URLage. In the case of Instagram, it means posting ever-more-nifty...
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“Barrilete cósmico, ¿de qué planeta viniste?”
– Victor Hugo Morales (Reminded by Iker Gil, more)
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“[T]he goal and approach for BERG: build an awesome Room, then — by design and...”
– Matt Webb
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“[P]utting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that...”
– Cecil Castellucci (via Kari Stewart)
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“Students must leave our walls with the confidence and skill to bring new ideas...”
– Chris Lehmann on Entrepreneurship
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School →
Subjects and textbooks are just fences
arbitrary boundaries that corral learners
and keep them from wandering off into other territory.
A plot of land in exchange for a horizon.
Exploration replaced with Epcot Center.
Outside of school
science stumbles into art which tumbles into economics.
which is one click away from Picasso
which is right next to the photo you just posted on facebook....
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“In order to grasp this fleeting object, which is not exactly an object, it is...”
– Henri Lefebvre
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“I fret about the warm bath of now-ness we seem to be currently living in; real...”
– Kellan Elliott-McCrea
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“But it turns out that the people trying to teach me were just doing a bad job....”
– James Somers
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“Order is found in things working beneficially together. It is not the forced...”
– Bill Mollison
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WatchIntroducing The ‘fake tv’ Robot, a little project that we’ve been working on, a plush version of @faketv’s robot. The robot also serves as an iPod holder. See @faketv’s original drawing on her Twitter page. Our video (poor quality, we know) features this video by Soren Severin.
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“It doesn’t matter whether we’re stuck in the slow lane or the fast...”
– @connectivenet
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“Llegamos de calles diferentes, de idiomas desiguales, al Silencio.”
– Pablo Neruda
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“We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence.”
– Pablo Neruda (via Stephen Davis)
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Veering off Path
“Want predictions for the future? Want to look ahead? Look around instead. The future of the ‘developed’ world is already happening in the rest of the world. It’s not all slums (although there are important lessons to be learned there, too). It’s not just a matter of ethics. It’s a matter of broadening our scope. So let’s fly sparingly. But the next time you fly, perhaps veer off your usual...
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Desire Lines
It doesn’t matter whether you call them elephant paths, desire lines, social trails, donkey trails, or something else. It is important to notice them and to embrace them:
A desire line usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and amount of erosion of the line represents the amount of demand. The term was coined by Gaston...
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