Month: January 2011

  • Game Over – today and tomorrow on imgfave

  • Visualizing visualizations

    Visualizing visualizations

  • MIT Press releases new book, Non Object, as an iPad App simultaneous to the paper edition. Claims levels of interaction with subject not available to hardbound book. What happens when we think beyond the object… think beyond the business plan…think beyond what we think we know about design? In Nonobject, award-winning designer Branko Lukic takes…

  • Visual 6502 in JavaScript

    Visual 6502 in JavaScript amazing

  • I’d seen this Graph that Eric Roberts has put together, based on current enrollment and 10 year trends from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This suggests that Engineering is just slightly over-subscribed (which Eric says is fine — you don’t want the lowest quartile students building your bridges), physical sciences is okay, and biological sciences…

  • January 21, 2011, 1:30 PM At Wesleyan, a Program for Performance Art Curators By PATRICIA COHEN As the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University says, performance art “is first and foremost a social experience that happens on a person-to-person level.” That has not stopped the institute from creating a new professional certificate…

  • Barbie and Ken in one doll

    pipedija: An investigation in Vilnius, Lithuania into the distribution of transgender children’s toys – female dolls that had anatomically correct male genitals – has been declared a manufacturing error by Child Protection Ombudsman Edita Ziobiene. The dolls were produced by Newsun Toys based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Six of the dolls were found before the…

  • Dangerous Minds | Kraftwerk sheet music for Casio VL-80 pocket calculator (1981)

  • The creation of the Digital Game Canon recognizes the importance of digital game culture. The Canon provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S. National Film Registry has played for film culture and history. (Our scope is international.) Our argument: We could do worse…

  • PROFILE of John Baldessari. Andy Warhol’s shadow hangs heavy over the international art world, but not in L.A., where the most relevant artist of the moment, the seventy-nine-year-old John Baldessari, said recently that he “hadn’t thought about Warhol in forty years.” Baldessari’s endlessly surprising retrospective, which was on view all summer at the Los Angeles…