Month: August 2015

  • Video Games Are Utterly Failing Trans Gamers & It’s Time We Did Something About It

    Video Games Are Utterly Failing Trans Gamers & It’s Time We Did Something About It

  • Stealing the Work of People of Color and Racism at Glitch Ci – Pastebin.com

    Stealing the Work of People of Color and Racism at Glitch Ci – Pastebin.com This was (re)moved from the Official GlitchCity LA distribution channels and (re)posted on PasteBin (which sounds unfortunately like dust bin). GlitchCity promises to remain transparent during it’s investigation of the allegations within this initial post. The post was (re)moved because it…

  • Stealing the Work of People of Color and Racism at Glitch City

    glitchcityla: “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. If I where to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity” – Albert Einstein Today a game was release by the Arcane Kids today by the name of Sonic Movie Maker. A project I…

  • Rio Magdalena downstream, for context.

  • In Vitro (2015)

    artandsciencejournal: In Vitro by Aljaž Celarc is a work that explores the cyclical nature of our water resources. Celarc, a recent Masters of Photography graduate from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, created a continuous system where ice melted to water, and then that water was filtered to a freezer where it was reformed within a 3D printed…

  • There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

    There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus processedlives: There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006 Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007 Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007 Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by…

  • Americans have, at this juncture in our history, become accustomed to conducting our most painful reckonings in public. The balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Dealey Plaza, the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, and a forsaken driveway in Mississippi occupy a profane corner in the minds of a generation of Americans. Yet the geography of conflict…

  • Real Windows 3.0 Solitaire deck of cards

    jkottke: Susan Kare, who famously designed the original icons for the Apple Macintosh, has teamed up with Areaware to offer real decks of cards with her artwork from Windows 3.0’s version of Solitaire. Nice example of defictionalization. They’re currently sold out but I’m hoping they restock so I can order a deck. (via subtraction)

  • Usage absolutists are the Scalia-esque Originalists of the language-maven set. Their emphasis on “timeless” grammatical truths, in opposition to most linguists’ view of language as a living, changing thing, is at heart conservative; their fulminations about the grammatical violations perpetrated by the masses mask deeper anxieties about moral relativism and social turbulence. Mark Dery in…

  • wolfliving: http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ Put it all together, and you can get some pretty creative results. Take Chinese toy company Dan Dan Man, which created Mon-Mon (user ID: idandanman), a bluetooth-enabled stuffed animal toy that integrates WeChat with the offline world. Parents can use the Mon-Mon official account in WeChat to send personal voice messages and pre-recorded…