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Imagined Realms
Read more: Imagined RealmsJulie Dillon is a critically acclaimed illustrator, having been nominated and won multiple awards, including two Hugos and a Chesley. Her work often deals with science fiction and fantasy stories, and her work in the field has made her aware…
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Play Safe
Read more: Play SafePlay Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted…
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Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Read more: Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main…
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#BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?
Read more: #BringBackOurGirls–Another Clicktivism or Activism?Michelle Obama tweeted her own portrait holding a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls and soon countless celebrities echoed this meme online. Throughout a week, this trending hashtag had been turned into a social-media supernova. The #BringBackOurGirls campaign spurred by online sharing brought…
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Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy
Read more: Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacyIn the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…
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The New York Times Special Edition
Read more: The New York Times Special EditionOn November twelfth, 2008, over 80,000 copies of a replica of the New York Times were distributed in several cities around the United States. The paper included 14 pages of “best case scenario” news set nine months in the future.…
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Read more: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful. The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again…
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RAT-PAC
Read more: RAT-PACThe Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering…
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Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By Ear
Read more: Beyond Braille: A History of Reading By EarThe Declaration of Independence. The Book of Psalms. Hamlet. Speeches by Helen Keller. These were some of the first works made available to people who were blind in the 1930s, when the Library of Congress, in partnership with the American…
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Miles Morales
Read more: Miles MoralesFrom The Huffington Post: In his lyrics under the rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donald Glover proposed, “I’ll be your hero – Donald for Spider-Man.” It might have sounded innocuous to the uninitiated ear – just another hip-hop boast among many…