RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • ¡Peligro! Rio Bravo, sketch circa 1998, El Paso, Texas USA. rafaelfajardo. Sketch for a proposed work to be deployed along the US-Mexico border in response to the continued engineering of the northern bank of the <i>Rio Bravo Del Norte</i> in order to create turbulent currents and undertows. In the US the river is known as…

  • Design fiction’s efforts to create imaginative realisations of technology, which consciously try to evoke discussion that avoids polarising opinion, have a key ingredient, I think. Unlike the new worlds of sci-fi novels, or the ultra-detailed visuals of futuristic cinema, their stories are unfinished. Minority Report is not about critical design because its narrative is closed.…

  • The ties between scientific speculation, technological imagination and sci-fi are close, and complex, even if genuinely new ideas most often come up in the tech arena first. Arthur C Clarke is often cited as a techno-visionary for his ideas about geostationary communication satellites, but these were first outlined in 1945 in a technical essay, not…

  • “Game makers don’t have established tools for hitting those emotional notes,” he continues. “We don’t think about our work from an emotional place, which limits us so much. The hole is an emotional mechanic, fundamentally… more importantly, the hole is magnetic. It’s enigmatic, it’s simple. It’s so elemental it cannot be ignored. It asks questions…

  • An interview with Juliana Cuervo!

    wallpaprapp: Juliana is an illustrator and animator from Colombia. She’s a huge fan of graphic design, crafts, comics, popcorn & banana cheesecake. Read More

  • The Unicode Consortium has launched a very controversial project known as Han Unification: an attempt to create a limited set of characters that will be shared by these so-called “CJK languages.” Instead of recognizing these languages as having their own writing systems that share some common ancestry, the Han unification process views them as mere…

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  • spodiddly: lovelytreknote: The Naked Time♪ Riley ♪ : and now, crew, one more time! #I love this exchange so much #they both check their anger and frustration and consciously stop taking it out on each other #and they both forgive each other for snapping #and I like to imagine a few days later on the bridge Uhura starts subtly…

  • The Kitchen: Anicka Yi: You Can Call Me F

    The Kitchen: Anicka Yi: You Can Call Me F iandeleonarts: For You Can Call Me F, The Kitchen’s gallery will function as a forensic site in which the artist aligns society’s growing paranoia around contagion and hygiene (both public and private) with the enduring patriarchal fear of feminism and potency of female networks. Anicka Yi’s…

  • technoccult: Lighten Up by Ronald Wimberly