Month: July 2014

  • brianmichaelbendis: Chris Ware’s Poster For East London Comic Art Festival

  • Avant-garde Videogames | The MIT Press

    Avant-garde Videogames | The MIT Press to get and to read

  • Denver Street Arcade Attracts Gamers Of All Ages : NPR

    Denver Street Arcade Attracts Gamers Of All Ages : NPR cool project with some @uofdenver alums on the team!

  • caldean: Shape194 – Cal Dean

  • Blue Ants

    warrenellis: Morning, Computer: Blue Ants – A friend said to me, the other month, “What we need is for Blue Ant to pay for all the things we want to do.” Without even thinking, I replied, “I want to BE Blue Ant.” Which is an absurd thing to say. Or even think. Why would you…

  • The arts are so money-oriented and heavily contingent upon market and market share. Poetry is the only place in the arts where all the money in the world can’t do anything — it can’t make a better book, it can’t make a better poet; poets keep writing regardless of money. Unalienated Uncreativity: An interview with…

  • Facebook provided the context in which this “ridiculous” narrative was cultured and incubated; it also provided the environment where it was able to flourish. The countless followup stories from this weekend, advancing but mostly rehashing the narrative created by Animal and perfected by The A.V. Club, are even more a product of their environment. A…

  • Eno is widely known for coining the term “ambient music,” and he produced a clutch of critically revered albums in the nineteen-seventies and eighties—by the Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2, among others—but if I had to choose his greatest contribution to popular music it would be the idea that musicians do their best work…

  • fastcompany: Most of us see algorithms as just numbers. Mathematicians and physicists see them as elaborate systems that can contain whole worlds. Read More>

  • Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right,…