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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…
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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…
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code drawing 2019 02 09 a
the order and labeling of these is a bit jumbled. The original documentary images had commas in the file-names. I’ve renamed copies for uploading here. these continue my novitiate with P5.js.
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code drawing 2019 02 05
with this drawing I begin to adapt methods to P5.js in anticipation of Processing Community Day, Denver
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code drawing 2019 01 01 a
This is the first code drawing of 2019. I forgot to update the text on the title page and so the drawing contains a typo mis-attributing it to 2018:
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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)