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The New Inquiry: Stalker/Zona
The New Inquiry: Stalker/Zona thenewinquiry: Geoff Dyer has “broken” America, as they say in Britain. This year’s National Book Critics’ Circle award for his collection of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, capped his rise from the occasional introducer of republished classics to a regular columnist in the New York Times
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Sketching and Experience Design (by StanfordUniversity) I’m looking/thinking/sketching with Bill Buxton in mind as I prepare for my class called Rapid Physical Game Design & Prototyping. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. Researcher-storyteller Brené Brown, author of The Gifts of Imperfection,at TED 2012. Get a taste for her fascinating work on vulnerability with her 2010 TEDxHouston talk. (via explore-blog) I will explore this thought.
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explore-blog: “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change,” researcher-storyteller Brené Brown famously said. In her absolutely fantastic TED 2012 talk, a complement to her equally eloquent 2010 talk on vulnerability, she digs deep into the unspoken epidemic of shame and the spectrum of broken behavior it engenders. Brown’s book, The Gifts of Imperfection, is a must-read. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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dinosaurparty: (via SFMOMA | Exhibitions Events | Calendar | Museum As Game Board) I’m on a panel at the SF MOMA on April 19th, talking about game design, gaming culture, gamification, and the rise of so-called ‘serious games.’” I’m looking forward to it! Wish I could be in the audience for this.
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explore-blog: The Three Astronauts – lovely vintage semiotic children’s book by beloved novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco teaches the child to draw connections between text and image through recurring symbols. It tells the inspired and irreverent story of space exploration and world peace as a Martian shows concern for a frightened bird and teaches three astronauts — an…
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That “famous scientist” was a Hungarian émigré mathematician called John von Neumann, and the electronic machine he was developing at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was, of course, the computer, the central product of today’s networked society. And it’s this story, of von Neumann’s attempt to assemble a team of the world’s most brilliant…
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(via LinkedIn Industry Trends | The Big Picture)
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If big, elaborate paintings (and reproductions thereof) are something that everyone can enjoy, why should the only people funding them be the rich collectors who can buy them outright? If the tastes of rich collectors dictate what sort of art gets made and acknowledged, isn’t that pretty limiting for everyone? Plus, galleries scared me. I…
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Music For Shuffle
Music For Shuffle notational: This is an ongoing project exploring how to make music specifically for shuffle mode. Each piece is made from small, interlocking phrases (each formatted as an individual MP3) which can be played in any order and still (hopefully) make musical sense. At the minute, these are just sketches and ideas in…