Category: Blog

Another comic about to be released as a film. Good storyboards are low hanging fruit. Thanks to Rosa for the tip.

Jonte is the man behind Beyonces moves.

Reunion Tower Digital Installations from Stimulant.

Creativity is just annoying.

Via Tak Fung. The Brck:

“It’s the easiest, most reliable way to connect to the Internet…We designed the BRCK for the changing way we connect to the web around the world, from cafes-hoppers in San Francisco to struggling coders in Nairobi.”

Julia Kagansky has left Vice/Virtue and started at the New Museum. More here. An interesting development – Museums as Incubators/Studios. Has this happened in artistic practise before? In institutions?

“NEW YORK, NY…Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, announced today the appointment of Julia Kaganskiy as Director of the institution’s new incubator for art, technology, and design. Opening in summer 2014 in the Museum’s adjacent building at 231 Bowery, this not-for-profit initiative will create a hybrid educational and professional workspace—a dynamic 24/7 center where creative start-up entrepreneurs and artists will form a vibrant interdisciplinary community geared toward collaboration and innovation. The initiative is a first for the museum field.

As the director of the incubator, Kaganskiy will oversee a community of over sixty full-time and part-time members working in close proximity with anchor member Studio-X, part of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She will be responsible for member recruitment, partnerships, and programs, and will report to the New Museum’s Director Lisa Phillips and Deputy Director Karen Wong, the incubator’s founders.”

The Void from TUNDRA – via Create Digital Motion. I remember when I was in Manchester with Kyle Mcdonald and Joanie Lemarcier and at ScreenLab – the effects of being in a CAVE are even greater than those depicted above.

The link between scale and perception is interesting – I remember when I was younger walking around fields in Wales with a camcorder to one eye almost exactly zoomed to my normal field of vision – alternating between nausea and euphoria. Playing with the Oculus Rift earlier in the year echoed that experience.

An interesting legal precedent for the UK and EU – reverse engineering is legal via manuals.

All three videos below came from this brilliant thread on Reddit.

Steve Hughes on Being Offended.

Bill Burr on Jobs and other things.

Stewart Lee on Only Fools and Horses and everything.

“Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code”

Brilliant Article by Cecily Carver.

Automated video looping with progressive dynamism from Microsoft Research. Where is Apple Research?

Detecting pulse rate from head movement. Thanks to Lucy Campbell for the tip.

The Mabinogion.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

The Book of the Law.

Ecclesiastes.

All via Cicada 3301. Which reminds me of the Quizmasters in “The Long Earth” novel by Pratchett and Baxter.

“COMPUTER GRAPHICS & ART is a new international quarterly of interdisciplinary computer graphics for graphics people and computer artists. This new periodical is aimed at students, teachers, people from undergraduate and graduate institutions, researchers, and individuals working professionally in graphics. Its topical coverage is broad, embracing a variety of fields. It is useful, informative, entertaining, and current.“

Great post on a fascinating magazine from the 70’s on the always ace Triangulation Blog.

Insane article on what cheap plastic surgery is doing to Venezuelan mannequin design.

I really want a Hovding airbag for cyclists. Definitely better for Dyspraxics.