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- On Eros Crossing the Color-Line in William Faulkner and Margaret Mitchell
- On Optimists’ Sons and Daughters: Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter and Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis
- Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus
- The “Raftsmen’s Passage,” Huck’s Crisis of Whiteness, and _Huckleberry Finn_ in U.S. Literary History
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- Very Large Array // a poetry collage project by Peter Schmidt (1990-2000)
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Reducing the Bull: the NYTimes Gets It Wrong Equating Apple Design and Picasso’s Art
Brian Chen’s NYTimes’ August 11th article on design training at Apple is fun and informative, particularly the anecdote about design decisions that led to a Google TV remote control with 78 buttons (all the design teams got what they wanted) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Other (including pop culture of all kinds), Uncategorized
Tagged Apple computer, art, design, Picasso, popular culture
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