Month: March 2012

  • The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand. Jonah Lehrer in Imagine: How Creativity Works. (via explore-blog) Tibor Kalman also preached this sermon when he stated his studio would only ever do a kind of…

  • CodeBook: an interactive programming environment

    danielhooper: CodeBook is an interactive programming environment I developed to make coding a little more fun by improving feedback and interactivity.  It was originally developed in 24 hours for the HackU programming competition. The idea was inspired/stolen from a fantastic talk by Bret Victor titled “Inventing on Principle”. You can play with Codebook, or check out its source on Github; please help make it…

  • Greetings, human. My name is Robot Tin, and I am a curious and loyal droid who wants to sit on your mantle, bookshelf or nightstand. I am unapologetically sci-fi in nature, and was created out of recycled materials such as cardboard, bolts and bottle caps. I know you want to fill the robot-sized hole in…

  • Greetings, master. My name is Robot Toto and I was crafted out of reclaimed materials such as cardboard and bottlecaps. I exist solely to serve your home décor needs—and to add a retro-futuristic accent to your mantle, bookshelf or nightstand. I am a resolutely friendly, low maintenance android who is looking for a home. Please…

  • I come in peace. My name is Robot Tita and I am a high-strung, slightly hysterical fem-bot who desires to add a lively blast of retro sci-fi flair to your mantle, bookshelf or nightstand. I have been handcrafted out of cardboard, bottlecaps and hardware, and want a loving home to nurture my pulsating antennae and…

  • How’s it going, carbon-based lifeform? They call me Robot Tito, and I’m kind-of a big deal on Planet ∏&Ò3Ř´†Â˚. I am constructed out of recycled Earthling materials such as cardboard, bolts and bottle-caps, and have come from the farthest reaches of outer space ISO a place on your mantle, dresser, bookshelf or nightstand. You need…

  • Greetings, human. My name is Robot Tin, and I am a curious and loyal droid who wants to sit on your mantle, bookshelf or nightstand. I am unapologetically sci-fi in nature, and was created out of recycled materials such as cardboard, bolts and bottle caps. I know you want to fill the robot-sized hole in…

  • curiositycounts: I love everything about the design of this poster for the film, Ray & Charles Eames: The Architect and the Painter. But I love that PBS has the entire film available to watch here even more. 

  • dcwomenkickingass: So Lois Lane (remember her – used to be married to Superman on one Earth; dead on another?) got a shout out on 30 Rock last night. And because it is 30 Rock it made me laugh. But it also made me think of all the times I’ve heard that Lois Lane is just…

  • PhD Thesis: Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts « Alex McLean

    PhD Thesis: Artist-Programmers and Programming Languages for the Arts « Alex McLean We consider the artist-programmer, who creates work through its description as source code. The artist-programmer grandstands computer language, giving unique vantage over human-computer interaction in a creative context. We focus on the human in this relationship, noting that humans use an amalgam of…