What shall we do next? by Julien Prévieux.
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An interesting book by Marc Vallée about...
Why do I blog this? An interesting book by Marc Vallée about defensive space, covering anti-skateboard devices. Interestingly, this is the topic that led to the largest number of comments on my blog. I find it relevant to see the type of “solutions” presented here. It would be funny to document how skaters ingeniously manage to get rid of them.
Read MoreWorking on a paper about the design space of gameful apps,...
Working on a paper about the design space of gameful apps, it’s relevant to get back to seminal papers such as “A Morphological Analysis of the Design Space of Input Devices” by Card et al., 1991.
Read More"Media archaeology can be understood as a heterogeneous set of theories and methods that investigate..."
“Media archaeology can be understood as a heterogeneous set of theories and methods that investigate media history through its alternative roots, forgotten paths, neglected ideas and machines. It explicitly challenges the supposed newness of digital culture. Media archaeology gives new ideas to understand media cultural temporality. The definitions have ranged from emphasising the recurring nature of media cultural discourses (Huhtamo) to media archaeology as an-archaeology, or variantology (Zielinski) which in its excavation of the deep time layers of our means of seeing tries to find an alternative route to dismantle the fallacy of linear development.”
- What is “media archaeology”, by Jussi Parrika
Probably a crapject… found at Fort escroto.
Brain-Computer Interface (Muse): “head-bands are cool...
in brain
From James Auger’s PhD defense. This quote also sums up...
From James Auger’s PhD defense. This quote also sums up his perspective:
Read MoreSpeculative design effectively facilitates the creation of high-resolution imaginaries of possible destinations - these can then be used to encourage contemplation and analysis on whether this is improved or not. Significantly this can be used to engage a broad variety of audiences.
新しい言葉 (New Words) by Alex Dodge: A method for generating...
新しい言葉 (New Words) by Alex Dodge: A method for generating phonetically unique words from a corpus of existing words in the Japanese language. —resulting in words that are statistically similar to Japanese.
Read More"“Farewell To The Feminine Hand” “It was the day before my daughter’s high school graduation and I..."
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“Farewell To The Feminine Hand”
“It was the day before my daughter’s high school graduation and I thought I’d treat her to a manicure at ___’s so she could pick up her summa cum laude diploma with pride. Imagine her mortification when the manicurist commented on her OUTSIZE THUMBS, and declared that painting such monster digits would cost double. Whysoever could this be? I had to investigate. It turned out that my daughter – the most popular girl in her class – had been sending up to 300 text messages – short notices on the mobile phone – per day. While glad she was so very socially-engaged and supportive of her friends, this one-handed work-out had quite destroyed the elegance of her former elegant pianist’s hand…”
” Jay @hautepop 2:51 pm on December 8, 2012. Intriguing irony here.
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A patent for an “Internet refrigerator and operating...
A patent for an “Internet refrigerator and operating method thereof” by peeps at LG Electronics: The Internet refrigerator includes a modem for performing a data communication with remote communication devices through the Internet, a first contr...
Read More"Motor cells that respond to the sight of other people moving are intriguing, there’s no doubt. It’s..."
“Motor cells that respond to the sight of other people moving are intriguing, there’s no doubt. It’s likely they play a role in important social cognitions. But to claim that they make us empathic, and to raise them up as neuroscience’s holy gr...
Read MorePierre la Police, So Foot (2012): “In 2050, soccer will be...
Pierre la Police, So Foot (2012):“In 2050, soccer will be totally different / First: we will not call it “le foot” but ‘spetnos’” “Every game will be played at the Olympa [a concert hall in Paris]” “It will look like a “yes/no game...
Read MoreFootbrawl Quest: a turn based football game featuring the...
Footbrawl Quest: a turn based football game featuring the Knights vs the Undead.
Read More"The project has five main points: 1. Opposition to dead media. Media never dies, it decays and rots,..."
“The project has five main points:1. Opposition to dead media. Media never dies, it decays and rots, and is reformed and remixed but always “stays as a residue in the soil”. 2. Opposition to planned obsolescence, which is an “unsupportable dea...
Read More"The New Aesthetic has been repeatedly and roundly criticised for not stating itself clearly in a way..."
“The New Aesthetic has been repeatedly and roundly criticised for not stating itself clearly in a way that old frameworks, artistic and academic, may get their heads around; but also for romanticising “robots”, a fundamental misunderstanding of t...
Read More"Two major issues appeared yesterday. One is the sustainability and durability of research projects..."
“Two major issues appeared yesterday. One is the sustainability and durability of research projects originated as “just-in-time” ones. Rapid response papers are necessarily imperfect or incomplete, precisely because they need to be put together i...
Read MoreSMB Pastel, made with Alien Skin’s Snap Art photoshop plugin.
SMB Pastel, made with Alien Skin’s Snap Art photoshop plugin.
Read More"Odds are that your imagination will be adding things to the present world. I am sorry, but this..."
“Odds are that your imagination will be adding things to the present world. I am sorry, but this approach is exactly backward: the way to do it rigorously is to take away from the future, reduce from it, simply, things that do not belong to the comin...
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