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Frind’s online dating company, Plenty of Fish, is newly located on the 26th floor of a downtown skyscraper with a revolving restaurant on the roof. The gleaming space could easily house 30 employees, but as Frind strides in, it is eerily quiet – just a room with new carpets, freshly painted walls, and eight flat-screen…
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uuiuu: http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_fall_03/4dcube/4dcube.gif
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SCR is a creative label intended to serve as a platform for artworks and projects emerging from the recent digital/network media movements. Here we produce, develop, and sell various interactive art / software / motion-based projects, and lots more. As designers and artists taking part in the digital media industry, we have always wondered about…
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*Nothing too new in this attractive Tech Review article, except for that porous fabbed cement, which is the awesome. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/37218/?a=f *I’d like to see an article on how to repair and upgrade printed buildings. Every boutique building-printer device ought to come with a free printed copy of Stewart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn.” (via Architecture Fiction:…
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So here is the kicker. Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is…
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The NETLab Toolkit is a system for tangible interaction sketching and production. It enables novices and experts to quickly integrate hardware, media and interactive behaviors for products, installations, and research. The NETLab Toolkit (which we often abbreviate as NLTK) is a project of The New Ecology of Things Lab. (via NETLab Toolkit)
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‘The creations they were working on were all over the map, crazy stuff. It was always very experimental, material that the world is not quite ready for…’ (via Apple’s Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its design genius? | Mail Online)
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Jan van Toorn Q&A – The relationship between form and technology (by D&AD) (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, in October 1966. The artists included are John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay,…
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you may enjoy an iPhone app called “Situationist,” which gives a location-based techno-twist to ideas borrowed from Situationist International, a gang of French artists who (in the words of the latter-day app developers) “sought to transform everyday life and the world through experimental forms of behaviour.” Instead of rewarding you with meaningless badges for vaporous…