Month: October 2012

  • nevver: Four color process

  • for the curious, my office is about 200 yards/meters from the stage. I will be watching the debate on tv from my home, 5 miles (~10km?) south.

  • thisistheverge: Frog’s Mark Rolston: the ‘Minority Report’ interface is a ‘terrible idea’ I hate that model. On one hand, it’s been great for a user interface to have become so recognizable by the general public. But really, it’s a terrible idea. Few people are going to stand up and wave their arms around like that…

  • pritheworld: Our story on the “Coup De Tete”: http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/zidanes-soccer-headbutt-sculpture-on-display-in-paris-2/ studiomuseum: The piece is called ‘Coup De Tête’ by Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed (also featured in Flow (2008) and is a sixteen foot-high bronze statue portraying the French soccer player Zinedine Zidane’s head-butting incident against Italian Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final. Read more.

  • Young kids think and learn about their surroundings much the way that scientists think and learn in advanced experiments, a new study says. They form hypotheses, test them, analyze their findings and learn from their actions and the actions of others — all in child’s play. A growing body of evidence about this style of…

  • uncrate: HotTug

  • thisistheverge: More human than human: how Philip K. Dick can change your life Jesse Hicks talks to Jonathan Lethem, John Alan Simon, and other ‘Dickheads’ about PKD’s enduring legacy. In Dick’s worlds, people could be shits and robots could be more human than human. It all came down to whether they could find within themselves…

  • “Regardless to what extent you expect your art to change you, there always is that act of submission to it and to its maker.”

    “Regardless to what extent you expect your art to change you, there always is that act of submission to it and to its maker.” claytoncubitt: “One of the crucial aspects of this sharing is that that other person has to be willing to subject her or himself to the rules of the artist. That is…