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montesmith: Denver Colorado November 23, 2011. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Occupy Denver demonstrators and members of the free kitchen, The Thunderdome, gather outside the Denver Rescue Mission to feed the hungry and protest against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper who were briefly on site as symbolic hosts of a holiday…
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Twenty years from now is 2031. That year is not Utopia or Oblivion, it’s not made of sci-fi hologrammed tinsel; it’s just another year among many, and most of its working parts are already scattered around. Bruce Sterling (via bashford) both the absurd and the mundane…
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DROP OUT. HANG OUT. SPACE OUT.: Official Master of the Universe y’all
DROP OUT. HANG OUT. SPACE OUT.: Official Master of the Universe y’all dropouthangoutspaceout: Expect my thesis to be popping up here in a day or two. Here is the abstract, to cause anticipation: STATE INTERVENTION, VIDEOGAMES AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: A CRITICAL POLITICAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS This thesis illustrates, using political economy, the ways in which…
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Wallace doesn’t accept the silent social contract between students and professors: He takes apart and analyzes and makes explicit, in a way that is almost painful, all of the tiny conventional unspoken agreements usually made between professors and their students. “Even in a seminar class,” his syllabus states, “it seems a little silly to require…
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austinkleon: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: Kare created a lot of these digital symbols on paper—on cheap, simple paper. Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare…
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All the cows were whisked away. And all that was left were the little shadows where they had been standing. But the game continued to run. And, in fact, the game continues to run to this day. And there are still people clicking on the spot where a cow used to be. NPR | Cow…
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PRESIDENT FOR A DAY: Video games as youth civic education – Information, Communication and Society
PRESIDENT FOR A DAY: Video games as youth civic education – Information, Communication and Society dropouthangoutspaceout: barthel: While I’m mentioning things, I might as well mention that I got my first academic article published. It’s an adaptation of my thesis, in which I designed a video game that simulates the process of determining the federal…
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“Q: So far, we have only talked about access to the Internet. Would you speculate on how other technologies could affect American education? Dr. Papert: I was not talking about access to the Internet. I was talking about something much deeper in which computers serve as materials for construction as well as providing access to…
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new-aesthetic: “The tracking system, called FootPath Technology, works through a series of antennas positioned throughout the shopping center that capture the unique identification number assigned to each phone (similar to a computer’s IP address), and tracks its movement throughout the stores. The system can’t take photos or collect data on what shoppers have purchased. And…
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Wander Through A Digital Amusement Park In XYZT | The Creators Project
Wander Through A Digital Amusement Park In XYZT | The Creators Project A beautiful bag of tricks all brought together under one theme. It may be alot of “dunking the clown” but it is immersive nonetheless.