About leftKeep Shopping Tattly cartCart (0) Mission Our Product » Designed by professional artists who get a cut of every sale. » Safe & non-toxic, printed with vegetable-based ink. » Made in the United States and shipped out of Brooklyn, NY. » FDA-compliant and fun for all ages. Individual Tattlys With over three hundred designs by artists worldwide, our collection of Tattlys are unmatched. Tattly Sets Each of our sets include 8 Tattlys, curated by our staff. Story Tired of putting poorly designed temporary tattoos on her daughter’s arm, Tina Roth Eisenberg took matters into her own hands. Tattly Timeline flag With just 15 designs, Tattly is launched! Our 10,000th online order! A typical birthday order with a noise maker and confetti Tattly releases new packaging for Sets, featuring Julia’s beautiful photography. previousnext Ella comes home wearing yet another ugly temporary tattoo. Sending out our very first batch of orders! Tattly ships its first wholesale order! Our first birthday! Team Tattly Press
aircord Density Design Coding as a Liberal Art February 5, 12:30pm ETBerkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd FloorRSVP required for those attending in person via the form belowThis event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET. What is the purpose of a liberal arts education? Commencement speakers have assured generations of college graduates that the real value is less in what they've learned than in how they've learned to think. About Diana Diana is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. As a co-creator of ROFLCon, Diana's interest in internet culture runs deep. Links
participate || home David McCandless The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I) “Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.”—Herman Melville, Billy Budd Spectral Rhythm. In Japan, people often refer to traffic lights as being blue in color. Blue and green are similar in hue. One of the first fences in this color continuum came from an unlikely place – crayons. Reconstructing the rainbow. In modern Japanese, midori is the word for green, as distinct from blue. And it’s not just Japanese. (Update: Some clarifications here. I find this fascinating, because it highlights a powerful idea about how we might see the world. Imagine that you had a rainbow-colored piece of paper that smoothly blends from one color to the other. A map of color for an English speaker. But if you think about it, there’s a real puzzle here. And here’s what they found. A picture worth many words.
| mobile apps & pervasive experiences | location based services envis precisely The Best Art Books of 2012 by Maria Popova From Indian folklore to Paris vs. NYC, by way of Japanese Wonderland and 80 years of loving of dogs. After last week’s look at the best science books of 2012, the season’s indulgently subjective and non-exhaustive best-of reading lists continue with the year’s favorite art books, in no particular order. From visionary Indian indie publisher Tara Books, who for nearly two decades have been giving voice to marginalized art and literature through a commune of artists, writers, and designers collaborating on beautifully crafted books celebrating Indian folk art traditions. Tejubehan takes us on a journey from her small village into the big city, where her poor parents move to find work. It is like magic. We reach the city! At its heart, however, the story is really a feminist story — a vision for women’s liberation in a culture with oppressive gender norms and limiting social expectations. I like cars. But even in the plane, my women are not content to sit still.
about | The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company | MSAV Memo Akten enquiries: info@memo.tv Subscribe to my low-traffic newsletter Statement My biggest inspiration is nature, and trying to understand the nature of nature, science. Trying to understand and abstract these phenomena, to visualise the invisible, extract and amplify the unseen relationships which sculpt and drive our world. Bio Memo Akten is a visual artist, musician and engineer based in London. In 2013 his work FORMS, a collaboration with fellow visual artist Quayola, won the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in the Animation category. A strong supporter of open-source and believer in the sharing of knowledge, he is one of the core contributors to the openFrameworks project and gives lectures and workshops around the world. While his primary crafts include writing software, working with and appropriating new technologies; above all his work focuses on creating powerful emotional and evocative experiences. Memo was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey. www.memo.tv