Black bird of yore.

poptech:

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oliphillips:

Human Spirograph Drawings

by Tony Orrico 

Between this and last week’s delightful turntable contraption, the Spirograph is clearly rising to the top of our collective consciousness.  If anyone out there has a Spirograph-related idea, strike now while the iron’s hot!

Tony Orrico (PopTech 2010), visual artist, performer, and choreographer, uses his own body to inscribe geometries on paper. Through physically exhausting performances involving highly choreographed motions, Orrico explores line and shape with his actual body, creating works of visual art that record his own motion. Want to know more? Listen to Orrico talk about his craft or watch a short video of him in action. 

poptech:

One more week to get your nominations in for the PopTech Social Innovation Fellows program. 

The Social Innovation Fellows Program serves visionary change agents who are incubating high-potential new solutions to pressing national, regional and global challenges. Our program is designed to provide a powerful toolkit for creating real and lasting impact. Fellows also gain increased visibility, access to a year-round community of peers in many sectors and a world-class network of experts and supporters.

Image: Peter Durand

kthread:

doctorswithoutborders:

Johnson & Johnson is expected to announce Monday, December 19, whether it intends to license its patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world.

Over the past two years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been urging Johnson & Johnson to take this critical step.

Johnson & Johnson has so far refused to join discussions on licensing these patents to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Pool has been set up to increase access to more affordable versions of HIV drugs, including fixed-dose combinations that include multiple medicines in one pill, and to develop much-needed pediatric HIV drugs.

The Pool would license patents on HIV drugs to other manufacturers and the resulting competition would dramatically reduce prices, making them much more affordable in the developing world. However, since the Pool is voluntary it will only work if patent holders like Johnson & Johnson choose to participate.

ACT NOW: Call on Johnson & Johnson to finally join the Medicines Patent Pool

This is a big deal. 

(via poptech)

(Source: pitchfork)

Ahh, that boy. With his black hair, brown eyes, absolutely awe-inspiring smile. With his quirky laugh, and glorious manners. Why must he constantly be so nice and have such warm invitations, yet be in the social stratosphere. From the bottom to that very tip top, he climbed, not to ever come down. To forever be dangerously far away, in that social stratosphere.

chaomien:

moog-poster

(via poptech)