Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m24ty3dGAJ1qz4yloo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.computerarts.co.uk/blog/blue-monday-nigh-122848">Sam Griffin</a>, on his artwork <span>The Olduvai Cliff</span>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>“This crypt finds its visual focal point in a neon outline of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Projection - the flattened version of the polyhedral shape created by the mathematician to display a map of the world. Here it is re-purposed as a religious symbol, geometric shorthand for Fuller’s holistic acknowledgement of the finite nature of natural resources.”</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span></span>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/20678728419/via-blue-monday-is-nigh-blog-computer-arts">iamdanw</a>, Dymaxion map poster extraordinaire). (See also: a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-of-human-migrations.jpg">Dymaxion map</a> of <a href="http://tumblr.iamdanw.com/post/20678086166/via-dymaxion-map-wikipedia-the-free">human migration</a> from east Africa.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/20740684476http://notes.husk.org/post/20740684476Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:45:31 +0100imageneonartdymaxion mapoutlineolduvai cliffsam griffingallery