Year: 2015

  • It sounds obvious, but when people ask for advice I just tell them to make games,” he concludes. “It’s the biggest factor for me – you just get better by making more and more games. Going to university has definitely given me formal experience with programming, but the I’d say the biggest factor is analysing…

  • The Museum of Latin American Art is Showing Chicano Artists For the First Time in 20 Years

    The Museum of Latin American Art is Showing Chicano Artists For the First Time in 20 Years In 2014 Ashman, Board member Rose Ann Djelmane and others – including Cheech Marin – convinced the Board to hear a presentation on Chicano art by collector Armando Duron. Duron’s presentation persuaded the Board to change the policy,…

  • brucesterling: *Long before Lolcats there were LAL Cats. http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/5201 Felixocene

  • If we are not articulate about what these games are and do, then we undermine the work of the artists behind them. When a crowd of gamers is able to collectively introduce and popularize the term “walking simulator” as a term of derision before this movement can find a broader voice, then the medium suffers…

  • The Librarian of Congress has issued new exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as part of a triennial review, and one of them grants people access to parts of the computer software running their cars. While you’ve always been allowed to tinker with your car’s engine or change the oil and rotate the…

  • This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport

    This Is Not a Game: How SXSW Turned GamerGate Abuse Into a Spectator Sport to read…

  • Ai Weiwei accepts Lego donations after company refuses his order

    Ai Weiwei accepts Lego donations after company refuses his order I’m disappointed in LEGO.

  • The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company

    The smart home’s problem is its best product is terrible and made by a bankrupt company

  • Milton and the Machine

    Milton and the Machine “I wanted to measure Milton’s surprise: his wrong-way cyclists. But in order to do that, I needed to know his structure. We know what people see when they look at a video: light, colors, motion. But what do we hear when we listen to Milton? Far, far more—the words, yes, their…

  • Near-future Ikea catalog: the Internet of Things’ flat-pack as a service

    mostlysignssomeportents: Julian Bleeker and his Near Future Laboratory have followed up on theiramazing Skymall-of-the-future catalog with an imaginary near-future Ikea catalog that jam an insane amount of witty futuristic speculation into elegantly presented, arresting images. The whole catalog is a brilliant exploration of the way that the Internet of Things will change our economic and…