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(via 8-bit Fashion. Anrealage F/W 2011 | Tokyo Fashion Diaries) celebrate the pixel!
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crookedindifference: It is so strange to me that there is a growing contingent of computer users that have never physically handled one of these.
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In this essay, we begin with a theoretical articulation the worked example as a form of invitational scholarship that provides new media scholars, in particular, an important outlet for their work. A worked example leverages purposively-selected instances and multiple modes of discourse (e.g., videos, pictures, expositions, games, quotes, etc.) to establish an invitation, in response…
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Pop culture now tends to stress production and not just consumption, as well as expertise certified and earned within digital communities and not only via professional forms of degrees and certification. The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy: The Hero of Timelines | James Paul Gee
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mythofechelon: Hypercube. Oh yeahhh. 4th dimensional objects for the win!
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Ever wondered just how much coffee you drank last year, or which movies you saw, and when? New Web and mobile apps make it possible to track, and visualize, this personal information graphically, and the trend could be set to expand dramatically. This is because Facebook recently acquired one of the leading personal-data-tracking mobile apps…
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See, the games community has it backwards: the point is not to “legitimize” games as art, whatever that would mean. The point is not to shoehorn games into some received, stable, agreed upon notion of what art is, as if there is such a notion. The point is to ask the question, what do videogames…
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Back in March, we told you about Artsicle, essentially “Neflix for art,” wherein subscribers in the New York area would pay $50 per month, per piece, to have something interesting to hang on their walls, made by an up-and-coming artist. Now another instant-art-for-hire service has popped up: Framed. For a fee, you’ll receive a 40″…
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Most of the ads on Facebook today—little rectangles running down the right side of the page, each holding a tiny image and up to 160 characters of text—barely hint at the huge bet Sandberg and Fischer are making. Facebook aims to be not just a place to advertise but an entirely new way to advertise—one…
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The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects
The New Ecology of Things: slabs, sofducts, and bespoke objects Several major trends are emerging that affect interaction design. With the advent of post-PC devices like the iPad, cheap sensors and microcontrollers like the Arduino, and services like Kindle Wispersync, we’re in the middle of a shift towards ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction, and cloud services.…