RafaelFajardo

Tag: Emergent Digital Practices

  • But what this “Studio 60” crew is attempting—coordinating a real-time story told between multiple Twitter accounts—is on a whole different level. For each of the past three weeks, the person(s) behind these fake accounts have put on a show pretending to put on a show. From Monday through Thursday evening, the creators voice their creative…

  • I wasn’t going to respond at all to New York Times Executive Editor’s plaintiff, if hyperbolic, critique of all social media, “The Twitter Trap,” but I’m hearing Carville-like yelling in my ear and realize I have to. Far, far too many powerful, brilliant, important people who should know a lot better are blaming technology for…

  • What is it about John Conway’s work that caught your imagination? WW: It’s so extraordinary, because the rules behind it are so simple. It’s like the game Go. A lot of people I know lost major chunks of their life from both of these endeavors. From an outside person’s point of view, it might seem…

  • 5. Messing with Tumblr themes is one of the best ways to learn web design. The Tangential Where else on the web can you get thousands of users overnight? Thousands of people distributing something with your name on it. It taught me how to make scalable designs and how to handle support. (via petervidani)

  • Do you wonder why our economy is in such a mess? Do you wonder why the world you grew up with and thought you knew doesn’t seem to be the world you live in? Do you feel less safe today than you did 10 years ago? Do you wonder why the most powerful nation in…

  • bashford: “Tags look like stickers but are much smarter. They contain useful information that can be read by your phone. For example, you can even add personalised information to the Orange Travel tag. Stock it by the door and grab the latest updates for your journey on the way out.” Would you like to know…

  • Ryoji Ikeda: The Transfinite

    Ryoji Ikeda: The Transfinite If you’re fortunate enough to be in New York anytime between now and June 11, 2011 you should make every effort to see Ryoji Ikeda’s “The Transfinite” installation at the Park Avenue Armory. It’s a massive audiovisual experience in two parts which should convince the most sceptical of audiences that maybe this whole…

  • bashford: A 12m x 1.5m (14,400 x 1,800 pixels) real time generative video wall installation for Deutsche Bank by Universal Everything. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • (via It Might Get Loud: The Edge Shows Off His Effects | GuitarWorld) click through for 30 second video. it’s amazing how much of the sound is electric, electronic, live effects.

  • tedfromtheinternet: merlin: Sometimes There’s a Man (Part III) MP3 Download As heard on Back to Work s01e17, here’s the third part1 of my rock opera about Dan Benjamin (here’s parts one and two). Graciously commissioned by our friends at MailChimp—so, many thanks to them. Tune in each week for the next part of the album.…