Month: November 2013

  • We used to have a map of a frontier that could be anything. The web isn’t young anymore, though. It’s settled. It’s been prospected and picked through. Increasingly, it feels like we decided to pave the wilderness, turn it into a suburb, and build a mall. And I hate this map of the web, because…

  • Karin in front of an Imperial sign at Uno Mas. Cerveza de Costa Rica

  • dinosaurparty: (via Modern Loss – Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome.) I was literally JUST wondering why there were no “cool” sites about grief. There are a lot of communities of grievers, but they’re often visually meh, riddled with typos and they can feel pretty disorganized. And I think that’s so odd, because sooner or…

  • chicagoif: A tea set was created by purchasing non-matching tea set components, scanning them with a Z-corporation 3D scanner and roughly repairing the digital mesh files. The mesh files are then 3D printed to create an instance of this tea-set data that inherits the glitches from the analogue-to-digital-to-analogue translation. ( via 3D Printing)

  • Curing Insomnia to Treat Depression

    Curing Insomnia to Treat Depression Studies yield highly promising results from therapy for sleeplessness.

  • prostheticknowledge: WAVES Installation art piece by T.E. Raijmakers where circles are projected to visualize any sound produced within it’s space – video embedded below: [Link] Light and sound are two types of waves. Like radio and the waves that our cell phones make to communicate with each other. We are continuously surrounded by waves, but…

  • laughingsquid: Circuit Stickers, Electronic Stickers That Combine to Build Circuits

  • code drawing 16

    code drawing 16

    code drawing 16, two states, created on 2013-11-27, between 00:12 – 00:15. increased line weights. I never know, as a drawing starts, if a drawing will be any good. I also can’t predict the moment when a drawing will become overworked.

  • code drawing 15

    code drawing 15

    code drawing 15, various states, created 2013-11-27 between 00:01 – 00:10. added rust colored line to the composition.

  • The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we…