Month: August 2012

  • Millennials… also wanted the option of leaving the office at 2 p.m. and continuing their work at a Starbucks.

    Millennials… also wanted the option of leaving the office at 2 p.m. and continuing their work at a Starbucks.

  • protoslacker: R.U.R. Wikipedia R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. Young Rossum invented a worker with the minimum amount of requirements. He had to simplify him.  He rejected everything that did not contribute directly to the progress of work.  He rejected everything that makes man more expensive.  In fact, he rejected man and made the Robot.  Link

  • bashford: WebCamMesh by Felix Turner is an HTML5 demo that projects webcam video onto a WebGL 3D Mesh. It creates a ‘fake’ 3D depth map by mapping pixel brightness to mesh vertex Z positions. Perlin noise is used to create the ripple effect by modifying the Z positions based on a 2D noise field. CSS3 filters are…

  • theatlantic: The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses? What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most…

  • fckyeahnetart: “One of the game designers I admire the most, Steph Thirion, used to teach classes on creative coding. This particular video was using footage of the results from a 6 hour crash course with students who had no programming experience.” “Creative coding; discovery and joy” by Bryan (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • choking back bittersweet tears of sadness and pride.

  • notational: Cycling74 Perspectives: Robert Henke on Max (by cycling74com) His observations at the end about keeping the tool building more primitive so that the actual desire to use it is still strong rings very true to me. Seems to point towards a particular type of cybernetic feedback. Patterns in chunks. Looking into adding MaxMSP and…

  • artandsciencejournal: Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was one of the first video artists. The two works above focus on our human relation to the television. With the first, Paik uses magnets to make organic shapes out of the televisions’ characteristics. He uses the “ugly” television to make something rather beautiful. The television, something society…

  • I will be in Los Angeles tomorrow and be returning the day after. I am dropping my son off for his first year at college.

  • The Walt Disney Company [is] building a chain of language schools in China big enough to enroll more than 150,000 children annually. The schools, which weave Disney characters into the curriculum, are not going to move the profit needle at a company with $41 billion in annual revenue. But they could play a vital role…