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kchayka: artstech: Noog is a new platform by nnfenren, who bill themselves on their website as “New Aesthetic Airlines.” It’s a creative office (?) led by Kim Asendorf, Martin Bottger, and Joel Baumann. Noog itself is a collection of pre-made and user generated digital collectible objects that look like they’re being made by augmented reality and triggers…
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theatlantic: The 19th Century Technology Behind Coachella’s Tupac Hologram That Tupac hologram that wowed Coachella crowds Sunday evening and will maybe go on tour wasn’t actually a hologram. It was a technology that dates all the way back to 1862 called Pepper’s Ghost, said The Wall Street Journal’s Ethan Smith on The News Hub. “It’s not a hologram. It’s very, very…
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kqedscience: “Yo Hologram Tupac, I’m real happy for you and I’mmma let you finish but Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of the best holograms of all time!” (via @kanye)
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jenlindblad: Really like the following bits from therearepeoplewho’s post on the…
jenlindblad: Really like the following bits from therearepeoplewho’s post on the… jenlindblad: Really like the following bits from therearepeoplewho’s post on the new aesthetic (thx for sending my way tapw!). My emphasis, not author’s: “Bridle, clearly, is encouraging us to commune with machines not because he truly believes that they are friendly and trying to…
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If the point of going to a concert isn’t to see the artist in question, but instead to feel a rush that can only be experienced when many other people are feeling the exact same way, is there anything wrong with having holograms or dancers or past projections of a performer serve as the headlining…
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youmightfindyourself: Michael Fassbender as David, a character in the film “Prometheus” An advanced android designed to be indistinguishable from humans, that begins to develop “its own ego, insecurities, jealousy and envy”. He is the ship’s butler and maintenance man. Writer Damon Lindelof stated that the character provides a non-human perspective on the film’s events, saying…
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But I digress. Last year Bridle released a book called “Where the F**k Was I?”, which accurately sums up the mentality of the movement. The really interesting element of the new aesthetic is that it presents genuinely interesting stuff, but Bridle’s delivery strategy is set to ‘gushing disorientation’. At present, it’s the victim of the…
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To be clear, Valve hasn’t magically repealed the realities of developing and shipping products. We’re all human, so teams sometimes argue (and sometimes passionately) about what to do and how to do it, but people are respectful of each other, and eventually get to a consensus that works. There are stresses and more rigid processes…
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To be clear, Valve hasn’t magically repealed the realities of developing and shipping products. We’re all human, so teams sometimes argue (and sometimes passionately) about what to do and how to do it, but people are respectful of each other, and eventually get to a consensus that works. There are stresses and more rigid processes…
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My observation is that it takes new hires about six months before they fully accept that no one is going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although…