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mylistofthangs: The Veiling, Bill Viola. Images of a man& a woman moving through a series of nocturnal landscapes are projected into parallel layers of loosely suspended translucent cloth. They each appear on separate opposing video channels, and are seen gradually moving from dark areas of shadow into areas of bright light. The cloth material diffuses the…
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Up to that point, all commercial video game products had been based on discrete, dedicated logic circuitry to generate on-screen gameplay. None in commercial production used a computer as the heart of its architecture. The Odyssey, developed by a team of engineers at defense contractor Sanders Associates, utilized mid-1960s technology that precluded the used of…
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Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California.
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protoslacker: Star Spangled Banner – Jose Feliciano (story and 1968 video) Jose Feliciano I’m 59 and goofy. I was 13 in 1968 and I’m sure I was goofy then. In 1968 I might have known who The Doors were, but I certainly knew who Jose Feliciano from his rendition of Light My Fire on the radio.…
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Visiting Artist Talk (virtual) by LaTurbo Avedon (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Does the Uncanny Valley exist? [2010]
mostlysignssomeportents: According to all of the roboticists and computer scientists we interviewed, the uncanny is in short supply during face-to-face contact with robots. Two of the robots that inspire the most terror—and accompanying YouTube comments—are Osaka University’s CB2, a child-like, gray-skinned robot, and KOBIAN, Waseda University’s hyper-expressive humanoid. In person, no one rejected the robots.…
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it8bit: Monument Valley in Numbers (via:adoublep)
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Friendly reminder
reclaimingthelatinatag: There is no way to look ‘Latino’. You can be black, brown, white, you can have Blue eyes, brown eyes, blonde hair, brown, red etc. If you’re Latin@, no one can take that away from you, and certainly not based on how you look. Love yourself. -Gabi