Posts tagged Molly Higgins
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As an undergrad, my Christian Fellowship encouraged students to get involved with movements that showed people love and respect, whether those movements were Christian or not. One project was tutoring men in a rehab program trying to find jobs or earn GEDs. The other was sorting and sending books to inmates. Both experiences impressed on me how the quality of donations can radically affect the quality of someone’s life.
Without access to modern software, how can a person really prepare to reintegrate into society? What message does it send to a person trying to learn to read when the only books available to them are “easy readers” designed for children?
Print dictionaries were/are always in demand.
My experiences there drew me to gitmobooks’s Tumblr. Each post shows part of the Guantanamo prison library collection available to detainees.
Angry Birds video game
Out of the archives | Movements and Moments
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In my other persona, I’m a libraries person with a love of Asian American Studies and the intersections of access, discovery, and technology. So happy Asian American Heritage Month, I combined all my interests into one project, called Out of the Archives.
Out of the Archives highlights digital archival material from collections and archives that focus on Asian America. The project aims to raise the profile of not-terribly-famous Asian Americans doing regular stuff, and the organizations working to preserve that history.
Check it out. Self promotion is just another word for cross pollination.
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It’s certainly unexpected, mashing together two stereotyped cultures that are generally considered at odds—the blogger dubs them “thug” and “vegan.” “Thug” is generally stereotyped as threatening and people of color, while “vegan” as nonthreatening, and white.
Is it an appropriation of culture? We don’t have any information about the blogger, although my guess is that he/she is more on the nutritious foodie side of the fence.
I find it entertaining, but feel free to disagree with me.
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Carla Chavarria’s new project “Por Ella” photographs DREAM Activists with the women they support and whom they are supported by.
Look how strong they are.
Data Clarity: How Racism is Bad for Our Bodies
posted by Molly
Journalism is just another form of storytelling. You’re telling a set of factual truths, hopefully, but data is just data. As a journalist, you get to decide what story to tell. The article from “The Atlantic” above tells a very clear story with some very clear data (I must be on a clarity kick.). Here’s the money quote of data:
“The scale and scope of stop-and-frisk practices in communities of color have left many residents feeling that they are living under siege,” ... In 2011, there were 685,724 stops. In 70 of 76 precincts, greater than 50 percent of stops targeted blacks and Latinos. In 33 precincts, that number skyrockets to over 90 percent. Perhaps most shockingly, the number of stops of young black men (168,126) actually exceeded the number of young black men in New York City (158,406).
However, supporters of Stop and Frisk argue that it is an effective crime control tool and, if you want to avoid a stop, then do not commit a crime. The problem is that 90 percent of black and Latino men stopped were innocent. What might this mean in terms of heightened vigilance and stress? Not only must black and Latino people in New York anticipate acts of prejudice from the police, but they also must know innocence does not reduce the risk of harassment.
How to Write an Artist Statement
posted by Molly
Talk about your inspiration. Talk about your vision for the piece and its power to communicate.
Use vocabulary that clarifies the piece. Make it accessible to a wider audience.
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The Opte Project creates visualizations of the 14 billion pages that make up the network of the web. Science is beautiful!
Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/any-two-pages-on-the-web-are-connected-by-19-clicks-or-less/#ixzz2MEEiVq4n
DREAMer
posted by Molly
See the way the video stretches across the whole screen, and serves for the background for the navigation panel? How cool is that?
Reminds me of print book jackets, the way that the title is incorporated into the design and how the best designs incorporate clearly connected visuals for the back, spine, and front.
Going off pattern
posted by Molly
Why do I like patterns? They give form to my thoughts. This saves me time (sometimes). They place me in a larger tradition of art. This gives me a wider range of meaning to pull meanings from (to some readers at least).
But most of all, when I work in a framework, I think harder. Having a set of limitations forces me to choose words more carefully because they need to fit within the rules and convey my message. This definitely makes it more frustrating.
Someone said something once like “You’re not breaking the rules until you know they’re there.”
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