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Rovio Entertainment has said it will open its first retail outlet this year. Bloomberg has reported that the firm is aiming to hit $100 million in retail sales in the country in its first year of trading. The chief marketing officer, Peter Vesterbacka said at the Techcrunch conference in Beijing: “China is our fastest-growing market,…
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Digital art offers new hope for art at a time when the traditional media seem to have exhausted their potential. Gilles Beloeil, on digital art and the new Renaissance (via notgames)
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Technology always has its festive upsides… (via How to Creepify Your Photos for Halloween) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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I always forget how to fold this balloon. Evil Mad Scientist has a great project that embeds an LED, flexible circuit traces, and a battery to make a delightful lamp.
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The National Association of Theatre Owners estimates that 35-mm. projectors will be gone from American cinemas by the end of 2013. Emily Eakin discussing the work of Tacita Dean whose art work and practice celebrates — and depends upon — film stocks that are no longer being manufactured. Eakin’s essay can be found in The…
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Ian McEwan’s recent comic novel “Solar” includes, as a minor character, a conceptual artist whose latest work, constructed for Tate Modern, is a gargantuan Monopoly board with dice two metres high and houses that viewers can enter. The work—"an indictment, it was supposed, of a money-obsessed culture"—is a media sensation. What’s less clear is whether…
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http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-3857739359956666768&hl=en&fs=true Google Tech Talks April 30, 2007 ABSTRACT World-renowned Science Fiction writer and futurist Bruce Sterling will outline his ideas for SPIMES, a form of ubiquitous computing that gives smarts and ‘searchabiliity’ to even the most mundane of physical products. Imagine losing your car keys and being able to search for them with Google Earth.…
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Profile: Eric Zimmerman Ladies and gentlemen, people of the moving image, you are history. We are history. We’ll be replaced by people like Eric Zimmerman. Reason: the world is moving into an age that is characterized by Play, or, as Zimmerman puts it: The Ludic Century. Submarine Channel talked to the prominent game designer during…
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emergentdigitalpractices: Off Book: Video Games | PBS Arts (by PBS) –Originally got this from Kotaku. If you still don’t think games can be art, I’ve got a 7 minute video for you. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)