Month: July 2013

  • meme-meme: The man who coined the term “meme" explains it beautifully just for you and a few surprises at the end. You gotta watch this. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • tumblr_mq5molBj411r1io1c thegetty: Getty Villa theater specialist Ralph Flores reads the opening lines of Prometheus Bound. We have arrived at the far limit of the world.These are the Scythian mountains, desolate and vast. Hephaistos, you must carry out the Father’s willand bind the criminal to this steep looming rockwith chains of adamant, unbreakable. It was your…

  • To do

    rafaelfajardo: Read HeideggerGet power supply for Raspberry Pi Buy silicon for casting But wool felt for plush doll updated: Raspberry Pi is up and running. Found that it’s version of the ARM processor isn’t supported by the Unity3D Linux player. Hope still for the Kinect via Freenect.

  • rafaelfajardo: Also on view is a fascinating invented game known as Panajedrez, Panjuego, and Ajedrez criollo – or Panchess, Pangame and Creole chess. The wordplay reflects the multiple facets of the game: a visual, textual, and symbolic lexicon invented by the artist drawing from existing sign systems; a supremely challenging test of strategy made more…

  • emergentdigitalpractices: Your fitness wristband knows when you’re having sex. If it’s sensitive enough to detect minute movements while you’re sleeping, it can certainly pick up on the patterns of intercourse. Plus how else do you explain getting a half hour of exercise late at night without taking a single step. Fast Company’s Michael Grothaus just…

  • Colombian archaeologists have found remains of what they think is the first Spanish settlement in the Americas, the scientists said Saturday. According to the archaeologists, the remains belong to the city of Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien that was discovered on the border with Panama in 2002. “We have found majolica pottery, swords, firearms,…

  • Also on view is a fascinating invented game known as Panajedrez, Panjuego, and Ajedrez criollo – or Panchess, Pangame and Creole chess. The wordplay reflects the multiple facets of the game: a visual, textual, and symbolic lexicon invented by the artist drawing from existing sign systems; a supremely challenging test of strategy made more complex…

  • A Model of Play created by the Dubberly Design Office in collaboration with Satoko Kakihara, Jack Chung, and Paul Pangaro. click through for downloadable PDF. (via A Model of Play // SWEAT)

  • To do

    Read Heidegger Get power supply for Raspberry Pi Buy silicon for casting But wool felt for plush doll

  • I’m interested in how organisms adapt to the Anthropocene, as opposed to the Sierra Club ‘conserve and preserve’ way of thinking. Natalie Jeremijenko, in: ‘The Artist Who Talks With the Fishes’ (2013)