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Born Digital? Die Young
Born Digital? Die Young “Our cultural heritage is being set down in digital forms as the primary, first record,” says McDonough, an LIS assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rather than being born on stone, paper, film, or some other substratum known to last for millennia, centuries, or at least many decades, today’s…
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Short Note on Books – Creative Leadership
Short Note on Books – Creative Leadership I will have one of my favorite books on display in Tokyo shortly (will post what book that is after the Takeo Paper Show opens), and was asked to write a few sentences on why a real book matters in the digital age: A book bears the evidence…
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My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (by Brian Bennett)
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“The @charliesheen account has highlighted the ability of the Twitter platform to enable individuals to build an owned audience, in real-time, in scale, with a narrative that does not need to pass through the traditional media gatekeepers,” said Kerner, who along with colleague Michael Silverstein, is building one of the first research units on the…
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At first, Ebert seemed willing to discuss his opinion. When a reader from Denver asked, “Are you implying that books and film are better mediums, or just better uses of your time?” Ebert responded, “I believe books and films are better mediums, and better uses of my time. But how can I say that when…
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Jobs and Apple definitely have a better handle on the future of mobile devices and interfaces right now than any other CEO and company and are bold enough to come right out and say it: “Our competitors are looking at this like it’s the next PC market. That is not the right approach to this.”…
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polaraul: Papercraft Self Portrait – 2009 I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe. Software used: 3ds Max 2009Mudbox 2010Photoshop CS3Pepakura
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A Brief History of Distortion
A Brief History of Distortion theatlantic: William Weir explores the origins of fuzz, the sound that defined rock n roll: Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to define the sound of rock guitar, fuzz appeared first in neither…
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A Brief History of Distortion
A Brief History of Distortion theatlantic: William Weir explores the origins of fuzz, the sound that defined rock n roll: Fifty years ago, a faulty connection in a mixing board gave birth to fuzz, which is a term of art. Although it came to define the sound of rock guitar, fuzz appeared first in neither…
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Reichardt, curator of the groundbreaking ICA exhibition “Cybernetic Serendipity” in 1968, considered Computer Art to be a movement in her 1971 book The Computer in Art. She compared it with Concrete Poetry in that it was international and motivated by the use of media, technique and method rather than ideology.[1] However, she had to acknowledge…