Month: September 2011

  • laughingsquid: 29 Years Ago, a Smiley Was Born 🙂

  • prostheticknowledge: Warco: an FPS where you hold a camera instead of a gun via Ars Technica Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker…

  • The Magic of Minecraft | Disruption: David Pakman’s Blog

    The Magic of Minecraft | Disruption: David Pakman’s Blog room3d: Another article about Minecraft, from a parent’s perspective.   Last week my 13 year old had 6 friends over for a birthday sleepover.  They all brought laptops and ignored the XBox and the WII as they spent half the night playing Minecraft . Minecraft is…

  • williamlmoore: 100 Frames for Troy Davis–9:47 am Mountain Standard Time-Wednesday, September, 21, 2011 Matt Jenkins, 2011

  • Frieze Magazine | Lauren Cornell | Down the Line

    Frieze Magazine | Lauren Cornell | Down the Line towerofsleep: The last 20 years have seen revolutions in technology that have transformed our lives. How have art and its institutions reacted? In the Nostalgia District Lauren Cornell is executive director of Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum, New York, USA. The 16 May…

  • Moon Life speculates on the possibility that humans will live in space in the future. With this thought in mind, the project is a stimulus for artists, architects and designers to create futuristic, radical, political but humane concepts for an extreme lunar environment. Design Fiction | Beyond The Beyond

  • petervidani: Utility fog is a hypothetical collection of tiny robots that can replicate a physical structure.

  • new-aesthetic: Submarine Cable Map cryptonomicon

  • thenearsightedmonkey: This summer, Lynda Barry wrote a little piece about Chris Ware for the U.K.’s Guardian. They changed it around, but here is the original version. ‘LINT’ is the Near-Sighted Monkey’s first pick for “Most Mind Blowing Comic Book Ever Gave” LYNDA BARRY on CHRIS WARE July 8, 2011 Chris Ware is an American cartoonist…

  • thenearsightedmonkey: This summer, Lynda Barry wrote a little piece about Chris Ware for the U.K.’s Guardian. They changed it around, but here is the original version. ‘LINT’ is the Near-Sighted Monkey’s first pick for “Most Mind Blowing Comic Book Ever Gave” LYNDA BARRY on CHRIS WARE July 8, 2011 Chris Ware is an American cartoonist…