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Microsoft Visual Studio is giving out free 6-month trials to Pluralsight, a website dedicated to helping people learn IT, developer, business, and even art-related skills. The site contains more than 4,500 courses and normally runs for about $29.99/month. Whether you’re just starting out (like I am), or are already familiar with programming or other skills, this could be a real huge kick in the ass to help you learn a new skill or polish your existing ones. I definitely plan on taking advantage of this for the 6 months I have available now.
Even if you aren’t sure whether or not you want it, sign up for it anyway and just look some stuff up. It doesn’t ask for any payment information and auto renew is already turned off when you make your account, so you don’t have to worry about you being charged if you forget about it in the future.
Guys, I shit you not, there are so many programming languages and frameworks available to learn. There’s also photoshop and illustrator, game art and design, cloud computing, basic art, business management, and even tips on how to land jobs. So yeah it seems pretty cool.
Friendly reminder that this offer ends December 31, 2015.
The Cloud by Richard Clarkson is an interactive lamp and speaker system, designed to mimic a thundercloud in both appearance and entertainment. Using motion sensors the cloud detects a user’s presence and creates a unique lightning and thunder show dictated by their movement. The system features a powerful speaker system from which the user can stream music via any Bluetooth compatible device. Using color-changing lights the cloud is able to adapt to the desired lighting color and brightness. The cloud also has alternative modes such as a nightlight and music reactive mode.
The Midnight Planetarium watch from Van Cleef & Arpel’s Poetic Astronomy series tells time via a shooting star that rotates along the outmost area of the face, as well as, on a much bigger scale, movement of the planets.
Featuring an amazing 396 moving parts, the Midnight Planétarium displays an accurate representation of six planets and their rotations around the sun, from Mercury’s swift 88-day trip, to Earth’s 365 day circle, to Saturn, which takes 29 years. While it doesn’t quite top the list of the most expensive watches on the market, the standard version of the watch comes in pink gold and goes for $245,000. [Purchase]
You could literally live comfortably for four years off the price of this watch oh my god
Ok like I’m here for the whole “if it doesn’t make you happy, don’t do it” movement but like, be smart, yeah? Don’t just quit your job out of the blue, even if it is soul sucking, get another job first. Don’t just kick your roommate out because you aren’t getting along, talk to them first. And don’t say absolutely everything that pops into your mind, because discretion will save your ass on occasion. I’m not saying you can’t live authentically, but be smart.
Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz carried her mattress across the stage at her graduation ceremony this morning. Sulkowicz and her friends have been carrying the mattress around for the whole academic year in protest of the way the school handles sexual assault issues. As New York Magazine explains, for her senior thesis in visual art, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), Sulkowicz vowed that she would carry her dorm-room mattress whenever she was on campus as long as her alleged rapist remained on campus. “The piece could potentially take a day, or it could go on until I graduate,” she said.
For more on the project, check out our podcast “Feminism on Campus.”
Photo by Columbia Daily Spectator.
Art is just so goddamn beautiful. In any sense—film, poetry, prose, visual arts, culinary arts, fashion, music, painting. Just anything creative. I can’t imagine life without it, and every time I see or hear or taste something someone else creates, I am continuously baffled. We are lucky to live in a world in which we have such a mind—and we can literally produce anything that we think of.
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As an artist, Caitlin Freeman found her calling in cake.
She bakes at the cafe in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where the most popular item is a dessert inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian. It features geometric blocks of white velvet cake, colored red, blue and yellow, stacked together and “glued” with chocolate. It takes two days to prepare, according to her new cookbook, Modern Art Desserts.
Want. Cake. Now. -Heidi
Photos: Art 2013 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust c/o HCR International USA/Dessert Clay McLachlan/Reprinted by permission from ‘Modern Art Desserts’
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My little brother Logan (featured in the picture) made a few of these ironed bead art things. He’s got a lot of talent and likes to create his own creatures. This is his interpretation of a face made to “look like it’s art”.