Month: February 2012

  • Asking Questions First: DML 2012, San Francisco, March 1st

    Asking Questions First: DML 2012, San Francisco, March 1st davidcoopermoore: I’ll be presenting an IGNITE! talk on Rebecca Black and implications for media literacy and participatory culture at the Digital Media and Learning conference in San Francisco this Thursday, March 1st, at 4:30-5:45. Ignite Talks use the pecha kucha (p’chaw k’chaw) format, 20 image slides…

  • There is not a trace in us of that humble acceptance displayed by our parents, who were convinced that administrative issues were of utmost importance and who considered interaction with the state as something to be celebrated. We do not feel that respect, rooted in the distance between the lonely citizen and the majestic heights…

  • we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of our childhood, the music that accompanied us ten years ago: in the external memory network these are simply memories. Remembering them, exchanging them, and developing them is to us something as natural as the memory of ‘Casablanca’ is to you.…

  • They were just kids once too

  • 8bitfuture: Engineers build ‘pop-up robots’. Harvard engineers have developed a new technique allowing robotic insects to be mass produced flat on a sheet, and then popped up. Inspired by pop-up books, the system has taken what used to be a painstaking production process to build the robots one at a time by hand, and turn…

  • 1984 was a love story.

    1984 was a love story. austinkleon: Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story, in his Fresh Air interview: When I think of “1984” and “Brave New World,” two brilliant, dystopian books, I remember some of the ideas better in “Brave New World” because I think some of the ideas were stronger and more…

  • theavc: huffpostcomedy: unlikelywords: “It’s a damn travesty that we live in a world where @lindsaylohan gets to host @NBCSNL for the 4th time – but @azizansari remains snubbed.” Kenny Fucking Powers clued me in to this stat and it was obvious people would need graphical evidence of this travesty. As I am inartistic, I got…

  • Lambeaux by Nicolas Boillot | TRIANGULATION BLOG

    Lambeaux by Nicolas Boillot | TRIANGULATION BLOG Lambeaux is a work in progress by Nicolas Boillot, who is studying a Ph.D in audiovisual aesthetic in the LARA, a research laboratory of the university of Toulouse, France. This work is part of his thesis which is focused on the remix in digital art. Nicolas is making real time video…

  • What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why isn’t coding more like drawing a picture? How does it come that traditional tools, like pen and paper, are still the benchmark when it comes to connecting the creator with her piece of work? Emanuels Journal: The Tools We Need…