Month: October 2013

  • (via Engineering toys for girls)

  • (via Engineering toys for girls)

  • During another session, “Data Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century,” Mr. Reed argued that “data scientist as a profession is largely a fad.” Asked a question about undergraduate education, Mr. Reed struggled to answer. When it comes to hiring, he said, undergraduate education generally “does not matter.” “I usually hire people who have…

  • eightcookies: above: Traitor, you left Fluxus!, a postcard sent by George Maciunas to Nam June Paik, c late 1964, after the latter’s involvement with Stockhausen’s Originale below: Traitor, you left punk! Punxus by Yuri Stone

  • systemsapproach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VH9taO5Y1Y

  • newyorker: Can an Argentine animated film rival Hollywood blockbusters? Ian Mount writes about “Metegol,” a film whose success would represent the latest step toward relevance for animated features made outside the U.S.: http://nyr.kr/1dKo1no “The question, now, is whether audiences outside of Argentina will get it. The combination of high technical quality with cultural specificity could…

  • Every single major publisher does not support artists in this space well and it’s not even close. Yet today, more than ever the needs of the software artist are greater than they have ever been. Joseph Kimhttp://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JosephKim/20131025/203263/Emergence_of_the_quotSoftware_Artistquot.php (via notgames)

  • I’m Batman

  •  In the early days of the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and John Cale had a day job playing Batman and Robin at birthday parties.

  • ‘Street View Adventures’ Converts Google Maps Street View to Gameplay

    playistic: When the iPhone 3G was released and GPS started to become a thing on smartphones, developers everywhere tried to figure out how in the world to turn this functionality into a neat gameplay angle. Tons of real world games have subsequently been released over the years, but I’ve really yet to see one reach…