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Where pixel art celebrates the idiosyncracies of digital, adding a polaroid-esque filter to an iPhone photo subverts digital, tries to hide the digital nature of the photo, harking back to analog photography. If you lump pixel art and Instagram into the same category, the same “New Aesthetic”, you miss this. Enthusiasms: Coming to Terms with…
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I was an altar boy growing up and to answer your question… no, I wasn’t. Mike Birbiglia (via soxiam) Paul Higgins: When we are all thinking the same thing when someone says this and all have the same question it shows how big the issue is and how embedded it is in the public consciousness.…
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Robert Reich: The GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People
Robert Reich: The GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People robertreich: What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help…
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Be kind, be honest, work hard and always be awesome. Wil Wheaton (via moochingwarwidows)
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prostheticknowledge: The Art of Computer Game Design A book from 1982 that examines the art, science and philosophy of game creation at a time when the industry was new. It is particularly interesting when it examines classic arcade games familiar to all. From the introduction: Games are a fundamental part of human existence. The parlance…
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I’m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man, but nonetheless a machine with a tin ear and a wooden tongue. It is one thing to browse the Internet; it is another thing to write for it. […] We’re still playing with toys. The Internet is blessed with…
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dropouthangoutspaceout: dropouthangoutspaceout: But it is the anti-capitalist and anti-regulative impulse of worker initiated games, play and fun that I think is interesting. This is not simply because of my own particular views, but also because it does go to the heart of the political permutations that are taking place in the world of work and…
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Soviet Gamification
Soviet Gamification dropouthangoutspaceout: dropouthangoutspaceout: Phrased that way, it sounds like a problem a certain Vladimir Lenin was facing in 1917: How do we motivate workers, without resorting to paying them based on their work? Part of his answer was a theory of “socialist competition”, in which factories and individuals were to compete against each other…
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Soviet Gamification
Soviet Gamification dropouthangoutspaceout: dropouthangoutspaceout: Phrased that way, it sounds like a problem a certain Vladimir Lenin was facing in 1917: How do we motivate workers, without resorting to paying them based on their work? Part of his answer was a theory of “socialist competition”, in which factories and individuals were to compete against each other…