Artist, futurist, industrial designer and art director Syd Mead has died. From Polygon: Mead is best known as a concept artist on science fiction films like Blade Runner. After working in the motor vehicle industry for some time, Mead worked as a production illustrator on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, on which he famously designed V’ger. One of his most cited work, however, was the futuristic design he employed for Blade Runner — his version […]
MC Beaton, author of the beloved Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series has died at age 83. From The Bookseller: “Success came to her later in life but she made up for lost time – since 2011 she had been the most borrowed UK adult author in British libraries and her M C Beaton titles have sold in excess of 21 million copies worldwide,” L, B said in a statement. “However, she hated being referred […]
Immersive education counters the systematic barriers that impede the application of effective education strategy in Nigeria and opens up new horizons for enabling sustained access to quality education” — Dr. Sana Farid, CEO & Co-Founder Munfarid – Mulhimat – VRXOne VRXOne is a state-of-the-art Immersive Education Program created by Munfarid, an innovation firm specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality. The company’s program targets K-12, higher education, non-formal education, and even special […]
In the Garden of Old Age by Nina Freedlander Gibans is a series of poems about memory – collected ideas from a life rich with continuous interactions — ideas and people, spaces and inner thoughts colliding daily in these summary years which pile up and tumble to the pages like leaves in fall. The poems are accompanied by the photographs of Abby Star. Nina is currently working on several new projects including another volume of […]
Representative Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) could not have foreseen the furor she would create when she asked, via her web site and Twitter, for reading recommendations for 2020. As a Member of the Education and Labor Committee, I believe passionately in promoting literacy and the power of reading for all ages in all communities. My mother instilled my love of reading as a child, which was further cultivated by my teachers in school. No matter how […]
From helping us shed things that don’t give us joy, to seeing the brilliant power possible from the “snowflake generation” to the popularity of a book that everyone denies reading, but still manages to top every list imaginable, the 2010s were ripe with books designed to change everything from our life to our worldview. Because they are brave, CNN put together a list of the most influential books of the decade. “For better or worse, […]
As the 2010s screech towards their end, everyone is busily compiling lists. Doing their part, Deadline Hollywood compiled their pick of “11 movies that had a transformative impact on the film industry and/or the wider world in the decade of the 2010s. The non-exhaustive list includes movies from across the globe and considers their effect on box office, careers, companies, industry trends and cultural conversation.” The list is below. You can see Deadline Hollywood’s thoughts […]
Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Dakota and the American Dream (Mare Press) by Sameer Garach is set in modern times and takes aim at the classic idea of the American Dream in the context of Corporate America. When ten-year-old Dakota becomes bored sitting next to his mother on a park bench, he drifts off into a dream reminiscent of the real world and populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures who echo the […]
In 2005, Staples introduced the “Easy Button” as part of a marketing campaign to promote the idea that shopping at the store was easy. The button symbolized the fantasy that life could be easy in certain contexts. Metaphorically, wouldn’t it be fantastic if the brain had an easy button? Imagine if this could be your state of mind as you entered 2020. Although there is no literal easy button in your brain, recent research suggests […]
In a year of reading and book reviewing, what were Vanity Fair’s favorite books of 2019? Various editors and contributors offered up their favorites, including Big Sky (Little, Brown) by Kate Atkinson; Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Doubleday) by Patrick Radden Keefe; Fleishman Is in Trouble (Random House) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and several others. See the full list here.
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