- UNDER TOMORROWS SKY
‘Under tomorrows sky is a fictional, future city. Speculative architect Liam Young of the London based Tomorrows Thoughts Today has assembled a think tank of scientists, technologists, futurists, illustrators, science fiction authors and special effects artists to collectively develop this imaginary place, the landscapes that surround it and the stories it contains.’
- Boring Conference: A dispatch from James Ward’s annual celebration of banality. – Slate Magazine
‘As banal as the individual topics were, the minuscule obscurity of the subjects people can find themselves interested in—and, more importantly, make interesting to others—emerged as the real theme. In fact, despite its tone of jocular irony, the implied message of the conference was actually a pretty earnest one: nothing is boring if you look at it in the right way.’
- MoMA | Video Games: 14 in the Collection, for Starters
MoMA seeds a video game collection with: Pac-Man (1980), Tetris (1984), Another World (1991), Myst (1993), SimCity 2000 (1994), vib-ribbon (1999), The Sims (2000), Katamari Damacy (2004), EVE Online (2003), Dwarf Fortress (2006), Portal (2007), flOw (2006), Passage (2008), Canabalt (2009).
Links for November 30, 2012
Links for November 29, 2012
- How to Be an Entrepreneur – The Bold Italic – San Francisco
‘Learn how to spell the word “entrepreneur” because it is f*cking impossible. You’re going to say it all the time in conversations at coffee shops in the middle of the day when you’re giving a vague definition of your app or company to other entrepreneurs who oddly also have the time to be at a coffee shop in the middle of the day.’
Puddle.
Today’s thing I made: Puddle.
Links for November 24, 2012
- Game Time : Blog : Hide
‘Last week, we spent a bit of time thinking about games and, er, time – the relationship between a game when it’s dormant and when it’s being played, what happens when games you made recede into the difference, what happens if you slow the process of playing a game right down.’
Links for November 23, 2012
- Samplr for iPad · Make music and play with sound by touching it with your fingers.
- Turkeys Away: An Oral History « The Classic TV History Blog
“A lot of times they would find something and I would say, “Augh! Nope, don’t do that!” Then they’d try things and I’d go, “Yeah, that’s great. Thank you very much.” I must say I didn’t write it in the script that Gordon would show up with – Frank and him had makeup put those little feathers on them. When I saw it, I fell down in laughter, so they realized I supported that.”
Links for November 21, 2012
- SOMArts Cultural Center creates interactive fun with ‘Come Out & Play’ exhibition | Golden Gate Xpress
“When we first started, it was before iPhones, before apps, before Foursquare, if you can imagine that, and we had a lot of tech games, but I really like folk games. It’s something that brings people together. I think it’s important to see how differently different people play.”
- Happion Labs GameDevBlog: The new TDD
‘I’m doing something these days that a younger me would have been horrified of. Trailer Driven Development: the feature isn’t done until I’ve made a trailer of it.’
Links for November 15, 2012
- History of the Color Wheel | Part 1
‘All it used to take was a load of brilliant chutzpah, a dogged sense of orderliness, and just a smidgen of actual science to impose your personal order over the color universe.’
- 100,000 Stars
‘An interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the real location of over 100,000 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 individually identified stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist’s rendition.’
Links for November 14, 2012
- The Infinite Jukebox
‘The app works by sending your uploaded track over to The Echo Nest, where it is decomposed into individual beats. Each beat is then analyzed and matched to other similar sounding beats in the song. This information is used to create a detailed song graph of paths though similar sounding beats…. This process of branching to similar sounding beats can continue forever, giving you an infinitely long version of the song.’
Links for November 12, 2012
- ‘Pinch’ Interface Allows Multiple Devices to Combine Into One Contiguous Display – Core77
‘A Tokyo University of Technology research group has developed an interesting way that multiple users could combine their devices’ displays, Voltron-style, for a more communal experience.’
- Home – Sharp Suits
‘Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more have taken time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters.’
Links for November 10, 2012
- The Science of Racism: Radiolab’s Treatment of Hmong Experience | Hyphen magazine – Asian American arts, culture, and politics
‘The day after the show aired, critical feedback began streaming in on the Radiolab website. People from around the world began questioning the segment, particularly Robert’s interrogation of a man who survived a genocidal regime. My cry had awakened something that was “painful,” and made people “uncomfortable.”’