Hrag Vartanian

From the Craftzine blog:
I’ve been working on a project where I knit sweaters to go from gadgets to your body. They’re supposed to be a fun commentary on how attached and concentrated on technology we are, and to highlight the lack of movement that happens when we’re engrossed in our laptops, keyboards, PDAs, etc.

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I’ve never seen a city skyline that formed a straight line before. The world’s tallest building, Burj Dubai, is on the right and dwarfs the other skyscrapers.

{photos via Flickr}

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In the face of denial and apathy, Armenian Americans have had to be creative as to how to commemorate the Armenian Genocide without falling into self-pity and a culture of victimhood.
In 1996, artist Daniel V. Hejinian created one of the most ingenuous solutions. He began displaying simple graphic Armenian Genocide commemorative billboards in Watertown, just […]

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I’ve been thinking about the universe a lot lately, call me sentimental….and for the last week I’ve been wrapping my mind around the notion that our galaxy, the Milky Way, has millions of stars and it is only one of over a hundred billion galaxies in the known universe.
I have to say that the above […]

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For those of your that remember the 1997 Pokemon episode that triggered photosensitive epilepsy in a handful of Japanese children, well it seems TV (MTV specifically) have adopted a policy that will ensure that doesn’t happen again.
The latest victim of the Pokemon-effect ban (called the Harding Test) is Gnarls Barkley…this via HuffPost:
…its strobe effects, which […]

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