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pikeys: Rubik’s Cube for the Blind, 2010 by Konstantin Datz “Konstantin Datz has reimagined the popular Rubik’s Cube for people who cannot see the toy’s original colors. Datz stuck white panels embossed with the Braille words for each color over the squares, transforming the game from a visual puzzle into a tactile one.” – Museum…
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I know this is an old piece but I wanted to let you know I enjoyed it. “Re blogs and content sharing on Tumblr: a personal network analysis”- I am very interested in the “tipping point” of tumblr blogs. ie how many followers to you need before your followers begin to generate exponentially? How do you find the “connectors” and “influencers” on Tumblr? Its all interesting stuff but quite hard to track! thanks- E
hautepop: Digging into my Ask box and responding to very old questions – this one on this post doing a little network analysis of reblogs from Dec 2012 1. How many followers do you need before your followers increase exponentially? That’s a tricky one – mostly because Tumblr doesn’t make follower counts public on people’s…
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brucesterling: *The wife’s new novel is out — in the Italian edition. It’s a magic-realist memoir of her life in the vanished Yugoslavia. *She’s signing and speaking in Torino today. Feltrinelli, Piazza C.L.N, Torino, Mercoledi 7 Maggio, 6 pm http://www.infinitoedizioni.it/contenuto.php?tid=4519 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Placing art in opposition to that kind of functional practicality gives art an important kind of power, the capacity to reveal a world beyond utility – a world we lose sight of all too often in the need to justify everything via claims to usefulness. Chris Bateman, about Oscar Wilde’s notion of the uselessness of…
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futurescope: PaperFold: Foldable Smartphone Shows Shape-Shifting Future for Google Maps PaperFold is a shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up to three flexible electrophoretic displays to provide extra screen real estate when needed. Displays are detachable such that users can fold the device into various shapes that can range from an ultra notebook shape…
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“You must be either a game or art”, the fence demands, “you cannot be both.” Sadly, many of those who claim to passionately defend games have become the greatest obstruction to recognising games as artworks! Chris Batemanhttp://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2014/05/the-value-of-art.htmle (via notgames)
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Anatomy of the Corporate Soldier
Anatomy of the Corporate Soldier azspot: If you were a fictional villain, bent on subjugating the population by coaxing them into inactivity, you couldn’t build a better group than this. They’re smart, they scowl at the unconventional, they are great at their jobs but are functionally neutered outside of work—it’s a tyrant’s dream. It’s a…
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new-aesthetic: You Love Pinterest. Find Out Why The Police Do, Too : All Tech Considered : NPR, via Will W. Eight hours after posting on his department’s Facebook, Twitter — and the Pinterest page the agency launched in February — Stahler received information from not one but three people who helped identify the owner of the bracelet.…