Category: words

  • What is it that an art student is learning when she learns to use her own blindness or ignorance as a tool? That blindness can lead to insight is something I was never taught as a philosophy major, and I suspect I would not have learned it if I’d studied chemistry, history or French either.…

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    I wrote a first draft of the essay for the Goethe Institute’s Streaming Egos project on behalf of Inti Romero.

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    https://vimeo.com/145456215 I focused on Aracataca’s animation today. View On WordPress

  • poppies drawn by code in @gethopscotch In Flanders fields….

  • As WIRED’s Scott Dadich said (as he was projected onto the giant screen from his office in New York via Google Hangout), the early plan of “saving” the publishing world with the app didn’t exactly pan out as expected. “It was a moment of real experimentation,” he recalls when discussing WIRED’s iPad app. “We were a…

  • Thus, Settlers of Catan, when played in the U.S., is complicit in continuing to make indigenous communities invisible. Primarily in order to counter this troubling aspect of Settlers of Catan, and to create a game that I feel comfortable playing, I have designed a variant of Settlers of Catan titled First Nations of Catan. The…

  • Pretending at closeness is really the only way forward for anyone who wants to make money on the internet. The New Intimacy Economy — Medium good read

  • …in the late 20th century, minimalism began to take shape as a separate trend within the field of human–computer interaction. In 1983, data-visualization expert Edward Tufte introduced the concept of a data–ink ratio in his work, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In print media, the data–ink ratio is the ratio between (1) the amount…

  • Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Makes Users Less Efficient

    Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Makes Users Less Efficient User Interface and semiotics, made me chuckle.

  • progress report today was a field day. I wish I could talk about it though, but I promised.