RafaelFajardo

Coming up with a word like neuromancer is something that would earn you a really fine vacation if you worked in an ad agency. It was a kind of booby-trapped portmanteau that contained considerable potential for cognitive dissonance, that pleasurable buzz of feeling slightly unsettled. Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 211, William…

November 3, 2011

Bester had been doing it in the fifties—a Madison Avenue hepcat who had come into science fiction with a bunch of Joyce under his belt. He built his space-opera future out of what it felt like to be young and happening in New York, in the creative end of the business world in 1955. Paris…

November 3, 2011

Tiny Wings is pretty. Just look at it! I can’t play it. I’m no good at it. But the visual work draws me back to try, and try again. At first I thought that Andreas Illiger had made or commissioned watercolor art/illustrations for the game. I recently discovered that he is actually procedurally generating the…

November 3, 2011

A great article about making things with examples from one of my favorite authors… This is so relevant to our discussions in our foundations classes, it’s not even funny (via MAKE | Zen and the Art of Making)

November 3, 2011

Incentivising exercise? how many miles should you have to run to get an achievement badge? (via Girl, Apple’s gonna make you sweat with a treadmill patent – Engadget)

November 3, 2011

I’ve been trying out Scribus for typesetting of small books. I can’t get the justification right yet. Imposition of pages is through a PDF plug-in.

November 2, 2011

C3 – Google Maps on Steroids… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

November 2, 2011

Russell, associate professor of digital media studies and co-director of DU’s Institute for Digital Humanities, says she saw the news-media revolution coming as a graduate student in the listserv activity that surrounded the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. “I knew things were changing in 1995. I saw the strength of the information network built by the…

November 2, 2011

Design Envy · Music for Shuffle: Matthew Irvine Brown

Design Envy · Music for Shuffle: Matthew Irvine Brown My third post for Design Envy embraces the beauty of the digital, musical, glitch.

November 2, 2011

Who: Teachers of grade 5 and up who are interested in game design and learning more about the National STEM Video Game Challenge What: A Free One-Day Professional Development Session on Game Design in the Classroom From the National STEM Video Game Challenge to ed tech conferences around the country, you’ve heard the buzz about…

November 2, 2011