Month: February 2014

  • FEED: We’re clearly still a few steps away from games where spontaneous behavior really starts to happen and you have real learning going on with the virtual characters. But were there cases with The Sims where you pressed play and the characters really surprised you with their behavior? WRIGHT: A lot of stuff, yeah. Probably…

  • mattfractionblog: mmesurly: literally me on the list of Shit I Lost In The Crash was my favorite write-up for projects/commercials/videos we never got to make at MK12 (99% of the time because the idea horrified the client).  My favorite music video idea we could never get traction for would’ve been a sequel to ROCK IT…

  • laughingsquid: Pop Culture Action Figures Captured in Twisted Real Life Situations by VSE OK

  • bashford: Calling all creative coders. Technology is your canvas. What will you create?  Be awarded a commission by Google and the Barbican London as part of their Digital Revolution exhibition, alongside some of the world’s finest interactive artists. Entries close 28 March 2014. DEVART – Art Made with Code | More on the Google Blog (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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  • msg: slavin: I’m hating Secret in ways I haven’t hated software. It’s so close to what I care about, which is connecting strangers in new and thoughtful ways. But the use of “friends” in some posts without even fucking knowing who is on it makes it about supposition rather than curiosity, a halfass compromise between…

  • Marriott Wants Moxy to Deliver the Millennial Customer, With Help From Ikea – Greg Oates

    Marriott Wants Moxy to Deliver the Millennial Customer, With Help From Ikea – Greg Oates stoweboyd: I think that hotels are a great reflection of the future workplace: they are a leading indicator of what businesses will be trying to achieve (except with less sleeping space and less drinking booze). Here’s Greg Oates writing about…

  • Notes from “The Penelopiad” by Margaret Atwood

    I was very interested in the invention of the light bulb, for instance, and in the matter-into-energy theories of the twentieth century. More recently, some of us have been able to infiltrate the new ethereal-wave system that now encircles the globe, and to travel around that way, looking out at the world through the flat,…

  • design-is-fine: Western Electrics, the end of the rotary dial, 1965.

  • we’ve got to fight for our right to poetry