Hitchcock mashup with Kubrick

Hitchcock mashup with Kubrick

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 18, 2015

Guess what. A mashup of two among my preferred film directors, Hitchcock and Kubrick. The idea is James Stewart walking San Francisco and being assaulted by Kubrick’s characters and paranoias. For my students, this video is a lesson in creativity … Continue reading →
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Marx, Crime and the Cuckoo

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
October 5, 2015

What’s in common between Karl Marx, crime and the cuckoo clock, if anything? Well, there is first this little pamphlet written by Marx himself, titled “In praise of crime”, or something very like this. In it, Marx says that, contrary … Continue reading →
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Coding & Depth vs. Breadth

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
September 25, 2015

A couple of articles in the press inspire me to write this. First, The New York Times (As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change) and then Yale Daily News (CS50: Yale’s most popular course). The coding frenzy … Continue reading →
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Some Art

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
September 20, 2015

Some art that makes me shiver: One: [Photo by chaostrophy, CC-licensed. Some rights reserved] Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Two: [Image: Wikimedia Commons] Cosmè Tura‘s Calliope. Three: Marc Chagall‘s Above the Town … Continue reading →
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I Am Mine

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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September 7, 2015

I found an old comics magazine recently, that I had stacked from en earlier life. My younger self, in the fabulous 70’s, had bought this Linus magazine with Lucy shouting “I Am Mine!” Of course this became to be the … Continue reading →
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Resting

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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July 4, 2015

I’m enjoying some resting time away from office, students and all. So, I can’t help enjoying this unsplash.com site, where free Hi Res photos get published every week, with no restraining their use. Power to the people! This one is … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist (weekly)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
June 7, 2015

FlickrStorm. Search on Flickr with some Magic Search on Flickr with some Magic. tags: Images flickr photos creativecommons search tools delicious Imgur: Video to GIF Make an animated GIF from hundreds of video sites. Very easy to use. tags: gif … Continue reading →
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TEDActive 2015: A Record

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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June 4, 2015

I am very late, I know. I was at TEDActive 2015 in mid March and it’s only now that I’m publishing a note of that experience! Still, I also mixed up a video of the trip and conference that I’d … Continue reading →
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Life, Movie-making and Basket-weaving according to Woody Allen

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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May 15, 2015

My reflection of the day, from Woody Allen. We’re all gonna wind up in a very bad position one day sooner or later. The only way to deal with it as an artist is to try to come up with … Continue reading →
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Let the Force be with You, Josif.

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
May 14, 2015

From the work of Agan Harahap, who “has taken classic movie and comic book characters out of the realm of fantasy and placed them in the even grittier realm of real history.” Read the article on http://twentytwowords.com/superheroes-and-super-villains-i…/ and visit his … Continue reading →
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The Article That Was Not

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
May 4, 2015

Thus is written on Volume 16 on Shelf 2 of Wall 2 (of a numbered Hexagon), at page 115 (of 410 —all volumes have equal length). And thus is written there and has always been written since the beginning of time. … Continue reading →
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A Portrait Every Year (or every day)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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April 19, 2015

This is tear-bringing. Smile-inducing. Sweet. The Brown sisters have a photo portrait of them taken every year for forty years. A splendid, heart warming, light collection. On the New York Times: Go see it. Not exactly a new idea, … Continue reading →
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Flashback: The UFO Series

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
April 16, 2015

A terrific flashback from my own teenager era. Suddenly, when talking with friend John on old TV series (he noticed we’ve come back to TV series as in the 70’s), I googled “UFO series” because I suddenly remembered of a … Continue reading →
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Card stacks

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
March 13, 2015

Today, after a pleasant meeting at UPR’s Graduate School of Information and Technology Science, just above the library, my attention was caught by some strange furniture in the shape of drawers. [Photo by me. CC Licence BY-NC-SA] Yes! They are … Continue reading →
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Creation and meaning and House of Cards

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
March 11, 2015

[No spoilers ahead] One episode of the new season of House of Cards has some Tibetan monks make a beautiful colored-sand mandala in the White House. Like all good mandalas (and puzzles, by the way) a mandala -as a pure … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist (weekly)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
March 8, 2015

Delicious webs from Diigo / Delicious.com Map of [my own] avunque’s Twitter followers WordPress › Delicious Wishlist for WordPress « WordPress Plugins Doctopus – New Visions CloudLab Doctopus makes it easier for teachers to share, organize, and assess student … Continue reading →
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Plaza de Toros

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 7, 2015

The roads on the Internets are infinite. A simple question lingered on myself, which Hilda promptly answered. Were there bullfight arenas in Puerto Rico in the past? With real corridas? –Yes, she said. I remember one in Isla Verde, she … Continue reading →
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Nordic

by Antonio Vantaggiato

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March 6, 2015

Ny-Ålesund is an extreme place, probably the northern-most inhabited place on Earth. It has a post office and a hotel. It is an international research station on the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway. I came … Continue reading →
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The face-to-face myth

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
February 20, 2015

Writer Susan Pinker published a nice article on The New York Times titled Can Students Have Too Much Tech? It is a bit biased, in my opinion. First, let me say I haven’t yet read her bestselling book The Village … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist (weekly)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
February 1, 2015

Hashatit.com | Hashtag Search A page with a hashtag-search results across many social networks. Nice. Added to courses. tags:social hashtags aggregator twitter Facebook delicious Get TAGS | TAGS Fantastic Twitter Archiver. Using in all my courses. tags:twitter tools archive forClasses … Continue reading →
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The Moon

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 6, 2015

The stars about the lovely moon Fade back and vanish very soon, When, round and full, her silver face Swims into sight, and lights all space –Sappho The full moon of these days prompts me to revisit my old memories … Continue reading →
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Art & Science and Teresita Fernández

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 4, 2015

I just learned (What It Really Takes to Be an Artist on BrainPickings) that artist Teresita Fernández, recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her work (see her monograph, Blind Landscape) made an outstanding commencement speech at Virginia Commonwealth University … Continue reading →
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Noises

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
January 3, 2015

Ambient noise can be nice and useful. Here I have two noise generators which may be great apps. The first has a wonderful name, Coffitivity, and generates the sounds from a coffee shop. And you can download an app for … Continue reading →
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2014 Allen’s Movie Marathon

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 31, 2014

What have I learned on life from the movies I’ve seen? What have I learned from the stories of love, sex and neurosis from Woody Allen? Who knows, more than “learn” I ought to use the word “influence”. What has … Continue reading →
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2014 cometh to an end

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 31, 2014

2014 cometh to an end. Good-bye, 2014. It was a great year, hadn’t it been for the Chikungunya, the rash-arthiritis-fever-weakness illness borne by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. They say mosquitoes help diffuse information via viruses. In this case I feel a … Continue reading →
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What It Really Means to Be a Cultured Person

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 30, 2014

Some time ago, Open Culture published an account of the famed collection of the supposed “greatest” books on which to construct a cultured education. It originated at Harvard in 1909: Compiled by Harvard’s president Charles W. Eliot and called at … Continue reading →
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Love You

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 29, 2014

It’s just fitting to finish the year 2014 off with a good-spirited animated GIF. I had a flash of this moment from Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981), when a cute girl blinks on a baffled professor (Harrison Ford), just … Continue reading →
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Web Weaving

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 9, 2014

These beautiful words from Alan Levine @cogdog deserve an immediate quote. Such is the magic of the Web (grateful grin). Then go and read his post on the President and the King. But this is how the web and my … Continue reading →
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Constrained publishing

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 8, 2014

Somehow, I ended up liking Facebook. I mean, it’s a black hole. It’s a pit where losing one own’s writings and all, and where sharing cat shots. Trivial stuff gets published every day, trivial photos and quotes and cat shots. … Continue reading →
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delicious Zeitgeist (mix)

by Antonio Vantaggiato

| Syndicated
December 8, 2014

Discourse Best. Discussion. Tool. On the web. Free & Open. tags:forum opensource todo 2015 discussion collaboration conversation communication tools delicious ReadCube for Researchers Read, manage & discover new literature like never before. tags:tools research apps pdf reader papers citation delicious … Continue reading →
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