The Flight From Conversation At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work executives text during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facebook) during classes and when we’re on dates. My students tell me about an important new skill: it involves maintaining eye contact with someone while you text someone else; it’s hard, but it can be done. 25 Best Art Blogs to Jump Start Your Creativity and Get You Inspired Working in a creative field and looking for a little inspiration? Or just love art and looking to see what's trending? In addition to My Modern Met, there are tons of websites that can help you get over the creative hump and keep you abreast of what's happening in the art world. Whether you want to read in-depth artist interviews or simply scroll past imagery to get your creative juices flowing, there is something for everyone.
50 Things Everyone Should Know by Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.
Putting Art On the Map - A Google Maps and Earth Activity When I conduct workshops on Google Maps and Google Earth I always point out that the uses for those tools extend beyond the realm of geography and history. I was reminded of that point by reading a recent post on Maps Mania. That post featured maps of art galleries around the world.
Various about Norscq is a French composer and music producer. He founded the iconoclastic cult group The Grief in 1984. Since 1998, he worked as The Atlas Project for two albums and then under his name and working from time to time with Black Sifichi in the duet Super Stoned. He's known for being musically unpredictable with a particularly fine work on the sound. This brought many other musicians to him for recording, mixing, mastering, remixing, sound engineering … Colder, Von Magnet, Young Marble Giants, Marc Ribot, Jack Dangers, JG Thirlwell, Simon Fisher Turner, Quattrophage, Wild Shores, Encre, dDamage, Minsurar, Hypo, EDH, Emmanuel Tugny and so many more …
Smart, dumb, candybar, flip, and brick: a visual history of mobile phones For most of their history, mobile phones have been shrinking. Small meant portable; it even, in the not too distant past, was a sort of status symbol. Remember Motorola’s runaway hit, the ultra-thin Razr?
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13 must Have Chrome Apps for Music Teachers March 24, 2015 Here is a list we have curated specifically for music teachers. This list features a collection of popular Chrome apps ideal for teaching and learning about music. From apps to help you improve your music sheet reading skills to apps to assist you in your guitar and piano playing, the apps in this selection are definitely a must have for music teachers. Have a look and, as always, share with your colleagues. Show and tell for designers Dribbble Meetups Upcoming Meetups Charleston Dribbble Meetup Charleston, SC Singapore Dribbble Meetup 138 Cecil Street #03-01 Cecil Court Singapore 069538 Kolkata Dribbble Meetup 2nd floor, 120, Salkia School Road, Opp Hoogly Dock, Above Exide Battery Shop, Howrah, West Bengal 711106 Alexandria Dribbble Meetup Starbucks San Stefano, Alexandria. Odessa Dribbble Meetup 33, Rishel'evskaya St. (Terminal 42) See Past Meetups
The Sexperience 1000 Welcome to The Sexperience 1000, an interactive journey through the sexual experiences and preferences of one thousand British individuals. What’s the favourite sexual position of iPhone users in the North? Do country music lovers over 55 prefer to do it in the dark? Explore the 20 questions of our survey and discover what the great British public get up to between the sheets… 25 Inspiring Quotes To Change Your Thinking Advertisement I’m addicted to sayings and quotes. They are inspiring, motivating and they have the power to hassle new thought. They have the power to break down old beliefs and inject wisdom into your life.