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makegames: Before Spelunky I started a simple little roguelike game. Here’s the tilesheet I made for it – feel free to use these tiles in your own (non-commercial) projects, if you like. No credit necessary, although it would be appreciated!
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you,…
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Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It
emptyage: emptyage: Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going forward,” to borrow…
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I learned last night that the rules of Rugby have been continually modified to retain and increase flow. In this case it is not the psychology of optimal performance, but the fluidity and continuity of uninterrupted play.
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GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding?
GetGoogleOutOfMyHead: What is up with personal branding? hautepop: getgoogleoutofmyhead: hautepop: [Some waffle about why personal branding is an idea that doesn’t quite go away – the return of the repressed, if you will] I think there are three things happening here: 1. Brand production is a spontaneous cultural and psychological phenomenon. That phenomenon is much…
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Lego Mindstorm robot that solves Rubik’s Cube. Animated GIF.
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emergentfutures: “Our sense of time spans two generations back in the past and two generations forward into the future. That’s it. Most people cannot name a single great-grandparent. Few parents can conceive of the possibility of their child someday becoming a grandparent. It’s our historical and future-looking myopia that makes it pretty much impossible to…
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In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can’t afford to do that. Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab (via parkerehret)
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visual-poetry: “quoted (»is that a quotation, i asked…« jorge luis borges)” by joseph kosuth (+) (photographer: susanne ullerich)
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Q. Does the new technology mean the end of art as we know it? A. Yes, it does. It represents a new dimension to the way art will be understood or perceived. It’s a departure from appreciating a singular moment. What that means is … the reason why we can appreciate art is because most…