Month: December 2013

  • blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This is a second of Ad Reinhardt’s Black Paintings in the current Zwirner show, from the week’s worth that I’ll be Daily Pic’ing. If you were looking at it in good lighting, you’d be able to tell that it was different from yesterday’s choice, but it wouldn’t be easy. Among other things,…

  • Apple confirms purchase of Xbox 360’s Kinect’s 3D sensor maker

    Apple confirms purchase of Xbox 360’s Kinect’s 3D sensor maker Apple confirmed that it had acquired Israeli firm PrimeSense, maker of the 3D sensor technology in the Kinect ludo ergo sum

  • senjukannon: gloriousbacon: Cyber-psychologist Berni Goode talking about Flow on Charlie Brooker’s How Videogames Changed the World. Flow is extremely important. So, so important. It’s what keeps some people sane. It’s what drives the world’s most skilled and accomplished athletes, the most intense gamers, the hardcore hobbyists, even many of the most talented artists, musicians and…

  • thingsmagazine: Instant Corbusier

  • Small human beings learn by mimicking and so they learn patience by mimicking patience. Perhaps this means that a larger human being somewhere many thousands of generations back took a long and patient breath as the smaller human being in his or her arms squirmed. Perhaps the smaller human being saw this long and patient…

  • mayhap: https://www.onf.ca/film/sport_et_les_hommes

  • pixelpressgame: “I just wanted to say (and I think my opinion matters since I am the one with the actual money in our house), keep working on your product until you’re happy with it, and then send it out. No worries about delays! We’ll be thrilled to get it when it is ready. Thanks for…

  • blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: If you can barely make out this image, that’s as it should be. It’s one of the black-on-black Black Paintings made by Ad Reinhardt between 1960 and 1966 and now on view in the important survey of them at David Zwirner in New York, where I spent a solid four hours the…

  • Susan Kare print.

  • theimpossiblecool: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”  -Samuel Beckett