Category: words

  • retrogasm: Charlie Brown and Snoopy

  • Ever wondered if Gaming could address real world problems?At UNESCO MGIEP we recognize the enormous potential of digital Games as a tool for peace education, Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship. UNESCO MGIEP’s Gaming initiative aims to position games as innovative tools for transformative learning by engaging with game developers across genres; and encouraging…

  • 21 small game studios worth watching in 2015

    21 small game studios worth watching in 2015 there are many names I admire on this list, and many that are new to me.

  • Now I’ll have the opportunity to practice these values in a much different venue: As of this week, I’m leaving Adobe and joining True Ventures as Design Partner. Jeffrey Veen announces he is leaving Adobe to become a partner in a VC firm, echoing the move by Jon Maeda when he left the Presidency of…

  • (Not architecture alone but all technology is, at certain stages, evidence of a collective dream.) Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (via heteroglossia)

  • low-sugar-eye-candy: It’s like suddenly there’s a lot of people everywhere.

  • They were new gypsies, young men and women who knew only their own language, handsome specimens with oily skins and intelligent hands, whose dances and music sowed a panic of uproarious joy through the streets, with parrots painted all colors reciting Italian arias, and a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound…

  • nevver: Again

  • Gene Wolfe on my book “Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town”

    mostlysignssomeportents: SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those.  It is more.  It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read. – Gene Wolfe Read the rest… It gave me wonderfully strange dreams. Read it!

  • carryonsimon: This just in: JK Rowling plays Minecraft and I’m crying about it just a lil bit