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*The corporate masters of publishing houses can’t afford literature. They seem to have worked themselves into a corner as dire as that of real estate. Their industry got financialized and it hyper-evolved to the point of collapse. *Unfortunately, since they’re simply culture rather than banking, they can’t expect a bailout. The risk here is a…
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Sterling: I think Ballard knows a great deal about the work of the surrealists in the 20s and 30s. So much so, that he is almost a surrealist writer. He quite frequently chose surrealist canvases for his own work, and they make a lot of sense. I think he also has a deep knowledge of…
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Subtraction.com: Pixar’s “Day & Night” in Hardcover
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“Famous sounds” are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status. I’d like to open this section of Synth Mania utilizing as a starting point portions of an article appeared in the October 1995 issue of Keyboard magazine, titled “20 Sounds…
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Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Design Fiction Workshop: Failures It was a relatively short workshop — a couple of hours in total. Initially I was nervous that there would be not enough guidance to allow the participants to grab onto the material enthusiastically. That proved to be wrong. After an initial presentation that…
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Peyton Lindley Executive Director, UX Design and Technology – EffectiveUI
Peyton Lindley Executive Director, UX Design and Technology – EffectiveUI
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Meet Erik VanBragt, Dir. of Technology at Zynga (via bestjobsever) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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New Gorillaz Album Recorded Entirely on an iPad
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Bunnie “Chumby” Huang, whose Hacking the Xbox is a reverse-engineer’s bible, has been asked to testify at the trial of Anaheim’s Matthew Crippen, who faces three years in prison for jailbreaking Xbox 360s (that is, modding them so that they could run software that Microsoft hadn’t authorized). But federal prosecutors have asked the judge to…
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Fast Company plans to put a woman on the cover sometime in 2011. Unlike women on the covers of other tech magazines under recent fire, she will be a technology executive and she will be wearing a shirt. (thanks Maggie) Fast Company seeks “Most Influential Women in Tech” nominations – Boing Boing