News &Poetry Entropy | 02 Apr 2013
New York Times – Haiku -Serendipitous Poetry A collection of poetry algorithmically extracted from New York Times articles and selected by Times editors. Whimsy is not a quality we usually associate with computer programs. We tend to think of software in terms of the function it fulfills. For example, a spreadsheet helps us do our [...]
Art & Design &News Entropy | 10 Sep 2011
Magazine Covers on a Topic Known All Too Well Choosing the right magazine cover is a challenge in any ordinary week. But capturing the right sentiments surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks presented questions more fraught and delicate than most. How could editors make their magazines distinctive without being distasteful, evocative yet [...]
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclav Havel The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own [...]
In the past century, imaginative writers have grown more and more conscious of the darker levels to which human beings can descend, yet their art remains answerable to “what should be’ as well as to ‘things as they are.’ Activists have different priorities than artists do, but they, too, are forced to acknowledge the prevalence [...]
Art & Design &News Entropy | 20 Sep 2010
All The News That’s Fit To Post New York Times graphics are always way ahead, in the way they communicate complex data clearly and intuitively. – – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information How the New York Times Creates its Infographics They’ve won countless awards for their graphic work, but now it’s time to dive [...]