Category: words

  • Intergenerational Trauma Animation – YouTube

    This video on Intergenerational Trauma was shared with me by a former student upon seeing my post on FB about feeling wrecked by the news of the mass shooting at El Paso Texas yesterday, 2019 08 03. It’s a lovely bit of story telling and it points a direction towards healing. My partner has noted…

  • The Buddhist History of Moveable Type Before Gutenberg – Tricycle.org

    Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable type was named Choe Yun-ui. — Read on tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-history-moveable-type/ Here is an addendum to the western narrative that places Gutenberg and Germany at the center of the invention of moveable type and printing of books. I have been looking for a…

  • A closer look at Microsoft’s new Kinect sensor – The Verge

    developers will be able to use it with or without Azure — Read on www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239860/microsoft-kinect-azure-dk-hands-on-mwc-2019 Microsoft has created a new Kinect sensor. During an invaluable conversation with artist Matthew Keff at the IEEE-GEM 2019 conference at Yale last week I learned about this re-introduction. The Kinect had been declared dead technology upon its notable absence…

  • Ecozon@ Vol 8, No 2 (2017)

    Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment — Read on ecozona.eu/issue/view/124/showToc Bookmarking here so I can find it again later. This issue of the bilingual journal (Spanish and English) is dedicated to Ecocriticism and Computer- and Video- Games. It may be that “ecocriticism” is a particular critical lens. The idea of the greening of games…

  • to watch: Pachamama

    Pachamama looks utterly beautiful and unlike anything aimed at children today. And while it’s not necessarily evident from the trailer, Antin says he hopes to promote an ecological message with the film. Overall, the movie seems to take a complex history – Andean villagers struggling under the dominion of the Incas, who themselves are on the verge…

  • Colombian bot pilots

    The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go. As with other offshoring arrangements, the labor savings are huge. The Colombia workers, who…

  • afrofuturisms many (mis)identifications

    Many Afrofuturist authors are described as sci-fi and Afro-surrealist, magical realist and fantasy, simply because their work links science, nature, and magic as one. Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture (2013)

  • reposado

    despues de los tacos, un poco de añejo y chocolate bien oscuro ya que hace frío https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_PLFRl5bZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p6eofg1t4lfu

  • (via 2018 Design Tools Cost Comparison Sketch – Automattic Design) In this blog post John Maeda investigates the dollar cost of ownership of software tools for drawing, prototyping, and presenting design ideas. He focuses on tools for interaction- and communication- design. His is not an exhaustive list and many of the the Free/Libre Open Source…

  • d-boy is with us again for a short while #jetlagged #timeshifted #arrivedatfiveam #crossedthedateline #fromthefuture