Month: May 2014

  • elmerseason: kontam: Caetano Veloso wearing one of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés Parangolé is a slang Portuguese term which translates into a spectrum of ideas and events related to “idleness, a sudden agitation, an unexpected situation, or a dance party.”(1) Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) created textile based structures designed to be worn and activated by the wearer.…

  • emergentfutures: “The concept of habit enfolds an enormous richness and diversity of meanings. According to Husserl, habit, along with association, memory, and so on, belongs to the very essence of the psychic. Husserl even speaks of an overall genetic “phenomenology of habitualities”.In this paper, as an initial attempt to explicate the complexity of phenomenological treatments…

  • Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Marshall MuLuhan (via ryanpanos)

  • centuria: Isolation room (“rubber room”), US Customs and Border ProtectionSan Ysidro, California 2006 | Architecture of Authority, Richard Ross

  • He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

    He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. gibsonian: blue-ant: Welcome new followers! I’m happy you found your way here. Thanks to piraterob for getting us on the radar of @greatdismal himself. In case you hadn’t figured it out, this is a blog about the real concepts behind the novels of William Gibson.…

  • Open call for Artworks! Videogame inspired art wanted for Games Britannia exhibition … . Games Britannia is an exciting educational videogames festival that brings creativity and technology together. Through a range of activities, industry experts encourage schools and teachers to practice and celebrate the wonderful world of video game development. As part of this dynamic…

  • CHI PLAY is a new international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”. The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in games and HCI as foundations for the…

  • merlin: “Ethereal mummy.” I’m so gonna start using that.

  • rissalady: sailorp00n: jackhawksmoor: onlylolgifs: Fish on Wheels OH MY GOD HE’S OFF TO SEE THE WORLD HE’S LIKE A FISH ASTRONAUT LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE omfg I seriously cannot stop laughing at this.