Month: December 2015

  • INTERVIEW/ Yoshikazu Yasuhiko: ‘Gundam’ led to misunderstanding that ‘war is cool’ – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

    INTERVIEW/ Yoshikazu Yasuhiko: ‘Gundam’ led to misunderstanding that ‘war is cool’ – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

  • and now the Share Festival and Casa Jasmina is asking, what if the endpoints look different, if they themselves are also treated as art in the domestic landscape? http://www.toshare.it/tshr/bando-concorso-share-prize-2015-house-guests/?lang=en

  • Get with the times, HasBros. Why are your toys gendered at all any more? Are they sex toys you need certain genitalia to use? And why are the shitty, sexed up, bullshit toys labeled for girls, while the cool Star Wars ones are labeled for boys? You’re literally setting artificial boundaries for the play time…

  • So I want to talk about two questions tonight. The first one is, is art a luxury? Is it only a luxury or does it do something for us beyond that? And the second question is, is there a way that you can create a situation in which the arts flourish. If you think they’re…

  • semillero / incubator

    semillero / incubator

    I recently received news that an incubator I worked on while on sabbatical in Colombia has gotten institutional support from the Universidad Sur Colombiana. this is great news. This means that the “let’s make a game” game can startup in the town where I was born. the first cohort is made up of first-year students…

  • femfreq: “We’re the reason we can’t have nice things on the internet” is a must read article by Whitney Phillips about online harassment with suggestions on how to start solving the problem.  Be sure to also check out her book This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream…

  • Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter

    Traces – Physical programming of freeform folding in soft matter h/t to @notational. The project employs Processing, but could also have been explored without code. Unfortunately, Creative Applications fails to mention why the use of Processing or of the vector drawing program, Adobe Illustrator, offers any unique advantages over India Ink and a ruling pen.…

  • IoOOOT to read list

    IoOOOT to read list today, a google search with the search terms “internet of object oriented ontology things” revealed links to others who have been exploring this mashup. it will be interesting to read the thoughts of these authors to see how they compare to the ones I dreamed up for IoOOT. I’m tagging these as…

  • IoOOOT to read list

    IoOOOT to read list

    today, a google search with the search terms “internet of object oriented ontology things” revealed links to others who have been exploring this mashup. it will be interesting to read the thoughts of these authors to see how they compare to the ones I dreamed up for IoOOT. I’m tagging these as speculations for Casa…