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Imposter syndrome can be especially prevalent among creatives–In/Visible Talks.com’s Arianna Orland knows firsthand. Here’s how she works through it.

As a self-taught designer, I’ve often felt like a creative imposter. The label “creative professional,” and even more so esteemed “creative director” title always felt somehow awkward to wear. And even now, after 20 years and a full career, I still have moments where I feel uncomfortable designating myself in that bucket.

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The extra time will also allow RED to launch the phone on multiple carriers at once.
RED threw us all a curveball last July with the announcement that it’d be shifting away from multi-thousand dollar cinema cameras for a second to make an Android phone. Unfortunately, it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer before we can actually get our hands on the thing.
The RED Hydrogen One was initially supposed to be released during Q1 of this year, but RED later pushed its sights back to this summer. Now, the company is saying it won’t be until August before the phone is launched.
Delayed releases are never cheery things to talk about, but RED’s reasoning for its decision here sounds more than fair.
The Hydrogen One will now be able to natively record 4V content.
One of the highlights for the Hydrogen One is its 4-View holographic display that’ll allow you to move your head to look around objects in certain photos and videos. RED was originally going to sell an attachment that’d…

You won’t find any smokes in this retro cigarette vending machine. Feed it some cash, and instead of a cigarette you’ll be rewarded with little pieces of art.

What started in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1997 by artist Clark Whittington as a temporary art exhibit has now grown into an expansive project. Now, more than 100 refurbished cigarette vending machines stocked with work from more than 400 artists are spread across the United States and beyond.

Whittington transformed the machines, which were banned by many towns in the late 20th century, into what are essentially little art stores. All you have to do is donate $5 and crank the handle to receive your own original, handmade souvenir. Anything from paintings, jewelry, little sculptures, or drawings will fall into your hands.

The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada houses the one of the largest single collections of machines throughout the lobby and hallways. There are six such classic Art-o-mats within the Cosmo. Finding them is half the fun … choosing which artist to purchase a treasure from is the other.

I’m your outdoor dream girl and there’s nothing I love more than being outside, except for maybe stealing the souls of men, but that’s not important or in any way related to my newfound passion for outdoor recreation. I love canoeing, hiking, rock climbing, surfing, skiing, trail running, mountain biking, snowboarding, skateboarding, wakeboarding, any kind of boarding, yoga, kayaking, scuba diving, slacklining, white water rafting, fly fishing, and any other outdoor activity you told me you like. I’m almost supernaturally perfect at all of them!

I own everything Patagonia has ever made, which is considered to be one of my best personality traits. My intricately braided hair looks perfect even though I haven’t washed it in three days, and although I’ll tell you I love getting dirty, you will never actually see dirt on my person, unless it is artfully and strategically placed in a cute spot like highlighting my perfect cheekbones. I live in yoga pants and my activewear fits as though it’s been tailored because I did, in fact, get it tailored. I don’t dress like this because it attracts every amateur rock climber, mountain biking van lifer, kayak-wielding weekend warrior, and sentient pair of Chacos in a 15-mile radius. That’s just an unintended side effect that I happen to enjoy. I also love wolf dogs and being in the woods because no one can hear you scream. You see, I’m very passionate about communing with nature, and it’s not because I’m a two-thousand-year-old wood nymph who eats men’s souls.

Someday, I will have perfect outdoor dream children with my outdoor dream boy. Are you my outdoor dream boy? If you are, we will name our children Scout, Atlas, and Stand-up Paddle Board. They will learn how to hike before they can walk and climb before they can stand. Sadly, they won’t have a daddy, but that’s fine because I’ll teach them to devour performance-fleece-wearing humans to sustain their mystical life forces just like mommy. Don’t worry, that last part was a joke. I am deathly serious about forest conservation, but I can still make very funny jokes. More importantly, whatever adorable outdoor activities we do as a family, I will post to Instagram in the hopes of getting a brand sponsorship. Then, my online reach shall extend like a dark shadow across the land. A dark shadow of all-natural, environmentally-friendly fun that is!

Now, get in your Subaru and follow me into the mountains. I’ll let you hold my hand and snap pictures of my hemp-bracelet-clad arm leading you away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Outdoor people with wanderlust like ours just don’t belong in that messy, busy world. It’s like we should’ve lived in a different time. A simpler time when you’d build yourself a cabin in the woods, hunt for your food in the woods, and get lured into a seemingly perfect, but definitely not enchanted, glade in the woods. Why would you get lured into a woodland glade, you ask? For purposes of which I am not certain because I have NOT done that exact thing to hundreds, if not thousands, of men. Nobody with hiking boots as cute as mine could possibly be a malevolent forest spirit after all. By the way, there won’t be any signal where we’re going. Have I mentioned how much I love the idea of being totally off the grid?

When we’re finally free of all the distractions of modern life, we can have a serious talk about forest conservation. It’s important for you to know that my interest has nothing to do with the fact that cutting down trees releases the souls I’ve trapped inside them, thus depleting the source of my immortal life force. I’m just a normal, human girl who cares very much about trees, doesn’t ever sweat, and doesn’t possess the power to summon the dark creatures of the forest to do her bidding. If you ever find yourself intimidated by how outdoorsy I am, just remember, I put my soft, luminous skin on one leg at a time each morning just like the next girl. You know that old saying. I’ll tell you what I don’t do though. I definitely don’t morph into a fig tree full of bones each night like a wretched and accursed spirit of the forest. I honestly have no idea how all that twisted, gnarled bark ends up in our bed every night. It’s so weird! Almost as weird as the overwhelming scent of damp soil and decaying leaves that fills our tent after a session of passionate lovemaking.

What I’m trying to say is, all I care about is outdoor recreation and you, because I’m your outdoor dream girl and I’m definitely not an evil wood nymph. Now, lay yourself down on that ancient stone altar in the center of this meadow and let’s take an outdoor selfie!

After shows with Heath Ceramics in 2014 (in LA) and 2015 (in SF), Brendan Monroe (interviewed) will be returning for another exhibition at the Los Angeles location starting Saturday night (April 7th). Entitled Formations, some of the new body of work will be a little different than his sculptural pieces in the past as he has decided to explore Heath tile’s flat clay surface as a new medium. Molding the surface, making it more dimensional, Monroe has created a series of pieces that feature his organic patterns and textures. Rounding out the show will be framed wall hangings, large and small, along with drawings and blob sculptures, all available for purchase.
Photo credit: Brandon Shigeta.
Discuss Brendan Monroe here.

No one does body horror quite like the Japanese. The genre is, by definition, deeply disturbing already, offering up mutations, sickeningly visceral takes on monsters, and fates worth than death. But the Japanese version of it is just somehow…more, in all respects, and more unsettling than its American and European […]

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Welcome to a Point-of-Entry for Transhumanity.net‘s March 2018 Game Event. The following piece is FRActal MEtafiction (FRAME); a Futurist Arts & Culture paradigm explained at the bottom of this page.   # Culture Mining A Weird Future The text below… Continue Reading →

Activating “Sabbath Mode” on a GE refrigerator disables interior lights, display panels, alarms and beeps as well as ice and water dispensers. In that mode, opening the door triggers no changes, including normal cooling processes to compensate for temperature loss. So why would anyone want to disable such key functionality on a home appliance? “The

Eindhoven-based designer Lucas Muñoz has combined industrial steel ventilation pipes with a copper seat taken from a scrap yard to create this bulbous chair. Read more

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This exhibition brings together four artists who have been working with sound, acoustics and architecture for many years and found a common subject in the exploration of resonance. The works interlinks and resonates with not only the environment of het Glazen Huis but also with each other to focus on the experience of resonance in nature.

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