These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Gate&Guard Dog

  This image pleases me

  pho­tog­ra­phy sym­bol­ism art

• Work/​life/​work bal­ance | Parlour

  ‘Arguably the most per­va­sive ele­ment enabling exploita­tive office cul­ture is the post­mod­ern trick­ery of the con­tem­po­rary work­ing envi­ron­ment. Slavoj Žižek argues that mod­ern employ­ment tac­tics cre­ate the illu­sion that our employer is our friend. This fab­ri­ca­tion empow­ers the employer while deny­ing the employed the right to vocalise and protest dis­sat­is­fac­tion of their work­ing con­di­tions. “You’re not going to stick around and help out? I thought we were a team? I thought we were friends?”’

  work­life communities-​​of-​​practice archi­tec­ture hier­ar­chies val­ues exploita­tion academic-​​culture

• Depix­eliz­ing Pixel Art

  “We describe a novel algo­rithm for extract­ing a resolution-​​independent vec­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tion from pixel art images, which enables mag­ni­fy­ing the results by an arbi­trary amount with­out image degra­da­tion. Our algo­rithm resolves pixel-​​scale fea­tures in the input and con­verts them into regions with smoothly vary­ing shad­ing that are crisply sep­a­rated by piecewise-​​smooth con­tour curves.…”

  algo­rithms inverse-​​problems graph­ics nudge-​​targets measures-​​of-​​success