Month: October 2011

  • Snaapshot | SNAAP: Strategic National Arts Alumni Project

    Snaapshot | SNAAP: Strategic National Arts Alumni Project I just took this survey from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)… these are the national results in a nice interactive format. This is relevant to anyone who is pursuing a career in or outside of the arts…

  • Your Internet data: more like Redcoats living in your home or black gold in the ground?

    Your Internet data: more like Redcoats living in your home or black gold in the ground? Interesting reading about how lawmakers feel about your Internet usage and data.

  • How does it change the dynamics of a video game when your characters die and don’t come back to life? (via Aliens: Infestation is the Metroid-style, 2D Aliens game we’ve always wanted)

  • Knowing that it could be risky to accept such a designer’s descriptions of his own works at face value, author Rick Poynor chose a more effective way to describe Jan van Toorn’s work: instead of describing its appearance or speculating about the rationale behind it, Poynor looks in detail at JvT’s reading list. The idea…

  • games is a 12-hour game dev event where participants build games from scratch in a defined time period.. | CreativeApplications.Net

    games is a 12-hour game dev event where participants build games from scratch in a defined time period.. | CreativeApplications.Net Looks interesting for all you game developers out there…

  • bmdesign: Kerning Game Saw this yesterday. I made a prototype of something similar in grad school, in hypercard.

  • Adobe MAX 2011 – Photoshop Image Deblurring sneak (by peterelst) Calculates motion trajectory of camera when shutter was open. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Awesome art made with ‘for’ loops. (via Create Digital Motion) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Reminds me of the discussion tonight about people creating better, cheaper, and more accessible technology.  (via Student spends summer turning a tablet into a Braille writer, says mowing lawns is for chumps – Engadget) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Attracting these consumers is itself a new challenge. Most of us will no longer tolerate interruptions, meaningless pitches, garish pop-ups, Las Vegas-style skyscraper ads or junk email. We are looking for real meaning, solid relevance, timeliness, and yes, transparency and truthfulness The View – Looking To The Future Of Media | Raedar (via mediafuturist)