John Baldessari believes that every young artist should know 3 things:
- Talent is cheap
- You have to be possessed, which you can’t will
- Being at the right place at the right time
Tom Waits narrates a quirky 6-minute documentary about contemporary art legend John Baldessari.
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Results from Data Scraping
Okay, this is even better than the first one. I modified Nathan’s script to scrape both the maximum and minimum temperatures for 365 days (meaning 365 Web pages!) and dumped them into one comma-delimited text file. Then I imported it into Excel to make this graph. I just used the Excel chart tools to make it (Excel for Mac 2011).
Python (partial):
# Get temperature from page
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
# maxTemp = soup.body.nobr.b.string
maxTemp = soup.findAll(attrs={"class":"nobr"})[5].span.string
minTemp = soup.findAll(attrs={"class":"nobr"})[8].span.string
# Above I added a scrape for lowest temperature too](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2inmpbckE1rttnkbo1_1280.png)
Results from Data Scraping
Okay, this is even better than the first one. I modified Nathan’s script to scrape both the maximum and minimum temperatures for 365 days (meaning 365 Web pages!) and dumped them into one comma-delimited text file. Then I imported it into Excel to make this graph. I just used the Excel chart tools to make it (Excel for Mac 2011).
Python (partial):
# Get temperature from page soup = BeautifulSoup(page) # maxTemp = soup.body.nobr.b.string maxTemp = soup.findAll(attrs={"class":"nobr"})[5].span.string minTemp = soup.findAll(attrs={"class":"nobr"})[8].span.string # Above I added a scrape for lowest temperature too
Gandhi’s top 10 fundamentals for changing the world by 22-year-old graphic designer Francesca Ramos – a fine addition to this collection of (typo)graphic wisdom on life.
A fascinating look at Gawker’s newsroom by Nieman Lab’s Andrew Phelps.
In particular, the results of an experiment in which each staff writer spends one day a week on “traffic-whoring duty” while the rest pursue in-depth articles.
Gawker editor AJ Daulerio explained the experiment back in January:
This week, the writers of this site have all agreed to participate in an obnoxious, but worthwhile exercise. Each day, a different staff writer will be forced to break their usual routine and offer up posts they feel would garner the most traffic. While that writer struggles to find dancing cat videos and Burger King bathroom fights or any other post they feel will add those precious, precious new eyeballs, the rest of the staff will spend time on more substantive stories they may have neglected due to the rigors of scouring the internet each day to hit some imaginary quota. The writers not relegated to traffic-whoring duty will still post, just less frequently than many of them are probably used to.
Andrew Phelps, Nieman Lab. I can’t stop reading this analysis of Gawker’s editorial strategy.
An archival photo from The New York Times shows news pictures being sorted in the newspaper’s photo “morgue,” which houses millions of images. Here they are — several each week — for you to see. Welcome to The Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times
The New York Times has a new tumblr; The Lively Morgue.
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling. Everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.
When the soul has been moved by an object itself, it is even more affected by the memory of the object. But in a man of genius imagination goes further: it recalls ideas with a more vivid feeling than it received them, because to these ideas are connected a thousand others more appropriate to arouse the feeling.
—Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, from the Encyclopédie.
