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new-aesthetic: Son Finds His Late Dad’s ‘Ghost’ In A Racing Video Game This is lovely, strange, and wrenching all at the same time. A teenager whose father passed away when he was just six had pulled out an old Xbox game that he and his dad used to play together, only to discover a part…
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tedfromtheinternet: Savvy Influencer
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slavin: “… when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together – until he died, when i was just 6. i couldnt touch that console for 10 years. but once…
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Startup Makes a New Kind of Flexible, Printed Battery | MIT Technology Review
Startup Makes a New Kind of Flexible, Printed Battery | MIT Technology Review Imprint Energy is developing a long-lasting, bendable, and rechargeable battery.
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fororchestra: This isn’t a blog post about how autotune is ruining music (it’s not). It’s a post about how much higher the bar is, and how that bar is not human. Above is Ricky Martin’s amazing Grammy performance from 1999. If you read the video comments you’ll notice some people feel that it’s horrible when…
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midwest-monster: jemandthediazepams: Little Richard being completely serious (x) It’s worth mentioning that this is Little Richard with David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
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Like much of the collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Dwarf Fortress is a baffling, inscrutable mess. But with proper interpretation, even the most intimidating forms can provide for moments of admiration. Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress, Tarn Adams, to talk about his work. We wanted to…
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hyperallergic: (via Early High-Speed Photographs Offer Incredible Details of Motion) Back in the 1930s, an electrical engineer from Nebraska, working at MIT, developed the first “strobe” flash for photography, changing the way motion is documented. Dr. Harold Edgerton took thousands of high-speed photographs during his career, and some from his estate are on public display…
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todaysdocument: It’s #BatmanDay! todaysdocument: Happy 75th Birthday, Batman! On March 30, 1939, Detective Comics #27 hit newsstands, introducing evil-doers and comic book lovers everywhere to the Caped Crusader. Batman Comic Book,No. 1 Spring Issue, 1940 From the series: Series : Civil Case Files, compiled 1938 – 1983, Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 – 2009.…
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Kickstarting a doc about making a living in the arts
mostlysignssomeportents: Olga writes, “Director and photographer Allan Amato is making a documentary film about how creative people wake up in the morning and persevere at being inspired and choosing to make art their living.” Read more…