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This is a brilliant design fiction. Did you know that the Post Office invented Skype in 1969? This is the direct equivalent of Microsoft’s future visions done forty years early. It’s brilliant for one particular line. When he rings through on the video phone it doesn’t work. The first thing that happens when we see…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: “Abstract Painting, No. 34”, from 1964, is the third of my week’s worth of Pics devoted to the Black Paintings of Ad Reinhardt, now on view in his centennial show at David Zwirner in New York. Compared to the others in the series, this almost-blue painting is so garish you might even…
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DIY Kindle Scanner, E-Books Loops Creator | Neural
DIY Kindle Scanner, E-Books Loops Creator | Neural Deep in the core of the Kindle (Amazon’s e-book reader) terms and conditions there is one clear sentence concerning the ownership of digital content: “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider”. This means that every Kindle owner only has a license for…
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(via Contours – “Breathing life into a textile skin”) Commissioned by MAK Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna, this project is a collaboration between Bare Conductive, Fabio Antinori and Alicja Pytlewska to create an installation that combines screenprinting, capacitive sensing, interactive tapestries and generative soundscape, as a large-scale metaphor for the idea…
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Valve joins the Linux Foundation ahead of SteamOS launch | Ars Technica
Valve joins the Linux Foundation ahead of SteamOS launch | Ars Technica Following the official unveiling of its Linux-based SteamOS back in September, Valve has announced that it is joining The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit group of companies and individuals devoted to promoting and advancing the open source community. The membership comes with some benefits…
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Tides is pleased to announce that applications and nominations for the 2014 Pizzigati Prize are now being accepted. The DEADLINE to apply or nominate is December 6, 2013. Click on Application & Timeline for more details. ABOUT THE PRIZE The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards a $10,000 cash grant…