Month: May 2013

  • prostheticknowledge: FRACT OSC First person puzzle platformer with a musical focus – the more you complete, the more of a synth studio you develop. FRACT is a musical exploration game. Explore an abstract, broken-down world built on sound, rebuild its forgotten machinery and create your own sounds and music within the world. It draws inspiration…

  • via @notational: ““Artists often possess the skills and temperament that business leaders regularly say are in short supply: creativity, resiliency, flexibility, high tolerance for risk and ambiguity, as well as the courage to fail.”” — Why art school may be the new business school (via fastcompany) Business leaders: Good luck with that. These qualities will…

  • prostheticknowledge: DressCode Programming language created for designing decorative artifacts: Computational design is the practice of using programing to create and modify form, structure and ornamentation. Through computational design it is possible to create unique, beautiful, functional and personal objects and experience a rewarding creative process through programing. Unfortunately, use of programming as a medium for art…

  • electrikmuse: Josef Albers teaching at Black Mountain College (via)

  • Count The Costs

    Count The Costs protoslacker: The war on drugs creates massive costs, resulting from an enforcement-led approach that puts organised crime in control of the trade. It is time to count these costs and explore the alternatives, using the best available evidence, to deliver a safer, healthier and more just world.

  • jenlindblad: ‘Glimpses of our Knowledge,’ a slideshow shown continuously during the original Visioner av Nuet festival in 1966, consisted of “images of space, technical advancements, examples of scientific illustrations from different times, different aspects of our knowledge — from old script and early hypotheses about the planetary system — to modern photographs of stars and…

  • jenlindblad: ‘Glimpses of our Knowledge,’ a slideshow shown continuously during the original Visioner av Nuet festival in 1966, consisted of “images of space, technical advancements, examples of scientific illustrations from different times, different aspects of our knowledge — from old script and early hypotheses about the planetary system — to modern photographs of stars and…

  • prostheticknowledge: Pixels 3D Online WebGL demo to view 3D objects as a point cloud. You can even upload your own 3D files. More Here

  • The rise and rise of civic crowdfundingadigaskell.org Last week I wrote about a novel project being run in Bogo­ta, Colum­bia Colombia that is attempt­ing to crowd­source the fund­ing of a new sky­scraper. The Prodi­gy Net­work, who are run­ning the scheme, offer … Colombia not Columbia

  • Remarks of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Memorial Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania May 30, 1963

    On this hallowed ground, heroic deeds were performed and eloquent words were spoken a century ago. We, the living, have not forgotten—and the world will never forget—the deeds or the words of Gettysburg. We honor them now as we join on this Memorial Day of 1963 in a prayer for permanent peace of the world…