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Back in March, we told you about Artsicle, essentially “Neflix for art,” wherein subscribers in the New York area would pay $50 per month, per piece, to have something interesting to hang on their walls, made by an up-and-coming artist. Now another instant-art-for-hire service has popped up: Framed. For a fee, you’ll receive a 40″…
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By Steve Delahoyde on May 11, 2011 11:02 AM For anyone who has ever pursued a degree in the arts, known someone who has or is currently enrolled, or heck, ever had a conversation with anyone about higher education, the conventional wisdom is that an arts degree is, in addition to learning about and understanding…
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Most of the ads on Facebook today—little rectangles running down the right side of the page, each holding a tiny image and up to 160 characters of text—barely hint at the huge bet Sandberg and Fischer are making. Facebook aims to be not just a place to advertise but an entirely new way to advertise—one…
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Failure, fail-safe, fail safely, is a part of playing games. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Failure, fail-safe, fail safely, is a part of playing games. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Tinkering
Tinkering essayist: Mark Grief on Walt Disney At an early point in his career, probably no later than 1930, Walt Disney lost the ability to draw what he wanted his cartoon characters to look like or his animations to do. So he began to act his cartoons out. In story meetings with his growing staff…
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The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects
The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects Several major trends are emerging that affect interaction design. With the advent of post-PC devices like the iPad, cheap sensors and microcontrollers like the Arduino, and services like Kindle Wispersync, we’re in the middle of a shift towards ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction, and cloud services.…
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace thedocumentarian: by Adam Curtis,
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The move to do away with grade levels throughout the Adams County School District began three years ago. Standards-based learning, as it’s called, is founded on the belief that every child learns in different ways and at different speeds. With the school district on an academic watch list, educators here were eager to reverse the…