Month: January 2016

  • The hyperlink was my currency six years ago. It represented the open, interconnected spirit of the world wide web – a vision that started with its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. The hyperlink was a way to abandon centralisation – all the links, lines and hierarchies – and replace them with something more distributed, a system of…

  • Bowie, Eno and serendipity

    mostlysignssomeportents: Tim Harford (previously) writes, “My TED talk just went live – among other things it’s about Bowie and Eno’s creative process on the Berlin albums. It’s rather sadly timed but I hope you like it.” As always, it’s full of fascinating insight. http://boingboing.net/2016/01/11/bowie-eno-and-serendipity.html

  • squinkyhatesvideogames: longstorygame: finnyd: LOOK HOW AWESOME THIS CHARACTER CREATION SCREEN IS LOOK HOW THERE DOESN’T NEED TO BE A MILLION OPTIONS FOR IT STILL TO BE SURPRISINGLY INCLUSIVE LOOK AT HOW EASILY THIS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED INTO GAMES. SO EASILY. LOOK AT IT RIGHT?! 🙂 I’m intrigued. me too

  • artistsbooksandmultiples: David Bowie’s (well used) copy of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies. 

  • cinoh: evencleveland (Source: http://cinoh.tumblr.com/)

  • The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo

    The Mark Flood Experience Kills Painting (Again) | Artinfo The underlying tactic shared among them is at least a partial abandonment of paint in favor of digital-based printing; as a surprisingly catchy song accompanying the animated trailer for this exhibition stresses, “brushstrokes are for snitches, brushstrokes are for bitches.” Chris Bexar’s print-on-canvas works are based…

  • We have to think about inclusion, acceptance and diversity, to start. We need to think deeply about our language and communications, and the way we express what technology does. We need to question the mythologies we build around concepts like “founders” or “inventions” or even “startups”. We need to challenge our definitions of success and…

  • khymeira: glitch-deity: did-you-kno: Shiftwear sneakers contain a flexible, waterproof, HD display that connects to a mobile app and lets you change designs at the touch of a button. Source @khymeira!! Right?! I’ve noticed an emergence in e-ink display integrated into wearable application for some time now. Smartwatches aside, Volvorii has been developing similar projects for…

  • Phantom Public

    Phantom Public azspot: In 1948 Norbert Wiener coined the term “cybernetics,” derived from the Greek term for “steersman.” The appeal of cybernetics, as Turner writes, lay in its “picture of humans and machines as dynamic, collaborating elements in a single, highly fluid, socio-technical system” where “control emerged not from the mind of a commanding officer,…