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If you haven't watched the DOJO yet, what are you waiting for? Get a glimpse into the 1st episode of Chicago's myninjaplease inspired DVD Mag! Check it out!
--05.01.2010--Who's Got that Vocab?!?! myninjaplease does! We're bringing this feature back to educate la gente.

Therianthropy refers to the metamorphosis of humans into other animals. from n. therianthrope and adj. therianthropic, part man and part beast, from the Greek theríon, θηρίον, meaning "wild animal" or "beast" (impliedly mammalian), and anthrōpos, άνθρωπος, meaning "human being") Therianthropes have long existed in mythology, appearing in ancient cave drawings such as the Sorcerer at Les Trois Frères.

Bonnier has introduced a working concept of the Mag+, a product that is seeking to understand the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. MNP recently caught up with Pontus Schultz of Bonnier R&D and asked him about the concept and its recent success with Popular Science+
--04.19.2010--
This week for the A Dozen feature, we touch base with Kathleen Letts, a very talented artist from Chicago. How did you get your start in the visual arts? It all started with mud pies…my earliest memories are of making little pots from the mud in a wooded clearing near our house in rural Kansas. I must have been 4 or 5. Later I branched out to figures that I made out of cloth and wood scraps from my mother’s sewing basket and my father’s wood shop, which I sold to family and friends. I remember that my most expensive art work at the time was priced at $ .50. Mom thought it was a little overpriced! I think that artists are born, not made, and the most critical component of the artistic temperament is the patience –or the compulsion–to work a piece through to completion.
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--04.19.2010--Chi crederia che sotto forme umane e sotto queste pastorali spoglie fosse nascosto un Dio? Non mica un–["Who would believe that under human form and under this pastoral garb there would be found a God? Not only a...."] As of mid-May 2009, this phonautogram of the opening lines of Torquato Tasso’s pastoral drama Aminta is the earliest audible record of recognizable human speech.

by Celia Hippie
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Once a separate nation, Texas has recently been behaving more like an independent economic republic than a regular state. While it hasn't been immune to the problems plaguing the nation, the Texas housing market, employment rate, and overall economic growth are relatively strong. Chalk some of this up to accidents of geology and geography. But Texan prosperity also reflects the conscious efforts of a once-parochial place to embrace globalization.
--04.19.2010--
A one-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view. Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child. After wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted – and decided he wanted to become what he calls an “Eyeborg” – a part-human, part-camera cyborg. “I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man,” he said in a recent video on his website. “I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera."
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Apple's glorious iPad which is supposed to be the salvation of eduction is being banned from US campus's because its wireless networking is so grim. The overpriced netbook without a keypad, is having difficulty being accepted at George Washington University and Princeton University because of network stability issues. Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with the device and is concerned about bandwidth overload.
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The Centre for Documentary Practice is pleased to announce Khaled Hasan as the winner of the first CDP Emerging Documentist Award, sponsored by Canon Australia. Hasan's story, Living Stone, documents the lives of a community of stone labourers in Jaflong, in North Eastern Bangladesh.
--04.16.2010--
The pic above is from a funny little article of images detailing the A to Z of comic book awesomeness. Favorite? "W is for Wolverine Wishing Wonder Woman Wasn't Wasted." Er... yes... Carry on.
--04.08.2010--
Architecturally inspiring neck-wear, via A Glimpse of Glamour
--03.28.2010--Although many people believe that Samuel Johnson said "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," he shouldn't get credit for this one.
Johnson said something close, but he was following in others' footsteps. In Boswell's Life of Johnson, in an entry marked April 14, 1775, Boswell quotes Johnson as saying (on some other occasion), "Hell is paved with good intentions." Note, no prefatory "the road to..." Boswell's editor, Malone, added a footnote indicating this is a 'proverbial sentence,' and quoting an earlier 1651 source (yet still not in the common wording). Samuel Johnson SoundByte Page
--03.28.2010--
Just in case you missed St. Paddy's Day: don't worry, you can still own your very own shillelagh for if you need to knock a few ninjas out, the good old Irish way. This baby retails for 98 bucks but can be yours for the... bargain price of 89 smackeroonies.
--03.20.2010--
Meet midori-san, the first blogging houseplant! Through sensors connected to the leaves of this Sweetheart Hoya, bioelectric currents are read through the plant, which gives information about the lighting condition, temperature and humidity; this then becomes Japanese sentences as created by the Keio University Hiroya Tanaka Laboratory.
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Check out the link below at the Art21 Blog in whether or not art has to be ethical.
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HMS Beagle by Conrad Martens.
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Markéta Othová, Untitled, 2008, Courtesy of the artist and Jirí Svestka Gallery, Prague
--02.20.2010--
Although Paris in the 1800s is often associated with the art of Impressionism, with its light-filled landscapes and bustling boulevards, artists also probed the social and psychological depths of the period in more private media like prints, drawings, illustrated books, and small sculptures. This exhibition, organized by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, evokes the discreet world of individual collecting to tell a less familiar story of nineteenth-century art.
--02.14.2010--
In lieu of any real Superbowl coverage (until later in the week when it's already tired out) I will link you to one of our classic article threads: Peyton Manning Cries. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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