RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • progress report

    feeling frustrated I went back to a simpler project I’ve been having trouble with. about a year ago I set out to recreate/remaster an older game, Seeds of Solitude, in Unity 3D. I started the remastering roughly a year ago and then set it aside. I was able to get the flock of butterflies to…

  • (via Joaquín Torres-Garcia: The Arcadian Modern | PRESS REMARKS – YouTube) timings are approximate:00:08:00 time is not linear00:09:45 small, precarious, constructivist (constructed?) structures in wood… intentionally precarious…00:11:05 small wood constructures are a laboratory for formal invention and structural composition00:11:52 he comes to New York and there is this Ludic Laboratory of toys, and the importance…

  • Raffi Khatchadourian, The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker

    Raffi Khatchadourian, The Doomsday Invention – The New Yorker stoweboyd: via Stowe Boyd “Superintelligence” is not intended as a treatise of deep originality; Bostrom’s contribution is to impose the rigors of analytic philosophy on a messy corpus of ideas that emerged at the margins of academic thought. Perhaps because the field of A.I. has recently…

  • dataandme: Made me smile: Fig diagram by @gemmacorrell https://t.co/1Zw5UUWjjr via @flowingdata https://t.co/DJRUtIScJD

  • Dear John (Green), You wrote an entire essay online about how groundbreaking it is for a teenage girl to kiss a teenage boy in a tragic movie about being white and pretty and dying. Meanwhile, the only times I see girls like me getting kissed on screen is when they’re being felt up by some…

  • You won’t live to see the final Star Wars movie

    jkottke: Someone on Twitter said this is the best piece about the upcoming Star Wars movie, and I think he’s right. But it’s not so much about Star Wars specifically as it is about how Hollywood studios are trying to build infinite series of movies. These new movies won’t just be sequels. That’s not the…

  • progress report

    progress report

    feeling frustrated I went back to a simpler project I’ve been having trouble with. about a year ago I set out to recreate/remaster an older game, Seeds of Solitude, in Unity 3D. I started the remastering roughly a year ago and then set it aside. I was able to get the flock of butterflies to…

  • hyperallergic: Say you’re one of the countless artists in New York City struggling to find an affordable studio space. The options are pretty limited: You could Bushwick-ify an unsuspecting neighborhood in the outer boroughs, or you could move to the greener, cheaper pastures of Detroit. Or, you could take the James Powers route: buy a…

  • progress report

    I watched some Unity 3D tutorials that helped me get past a mental block. it’s not apparent from the structures visible in the editor that one should create a game object to hold a script that controls the whole game. this could be a an empty gameObject, or – confusingly – could be one that’s…

  • alfiusdebux: Willem Sandberg  Experimenta Typografica 2 by Bas van Vuurde on Flickr.