February 2010
14 posts
A cat named Clarissa
She’s 10.
January 2010
32 posts
Beyond Monopoly: The 15 Greatest Board Games Of... →
Here are fifteen of the greatest board games of all time; while they aren’t all flawless we feel like they are vastly superior to traditional board games.
Flickr: The The Astonishing Power of Flickr Pool →
Collective intelligence on display. Via @bruces
PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework →
PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.
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Workspace adventure
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Smart organic windows: MIT CROMA
MIT’s CROMA group brings together researchers from media arts, architecture, and chemical engineering. The group “aims at developing technologies and use case scenarios for building responsive, programmable, and energy-smart architectural components.” Their “smart organic window” project proposes the use of electrochromic organic polymers to enable touch- and motion-sensitive brise-soleil...
iMAP cake
Mini-celebration on the occasion of the first iMAP cohort completing their exams. Cake courtesy Jen Stein.
Crossroads: the Reality Games Engine →
On this edge between reality and fiction there are games to be played. Stories to be told. Crossroads is a toolbox for exploring this new direction in urban entertainment, where the player is…
CLOUD MIRROR
I met Eric Gradman at a meeting of the recently-formed Transmedia LA group; his enthusiasm and sense of humor are as infectious in person as they are in his work. Gradman’s “uncomfortably augmented reality” project, CLOUD MIRROR, is currently on show at the Sundance festival. The CLOUD MIRROR is an interactive augmented reality art installation… Live video captured by a camera and is...
Ambient storytelling resources
Precedents and origins Ergodic Literature: (ergon + hodos = “work” + “path”) “In ergodic literature, nontrivial effort is required to allow the reader to traverse the text. If ergodic literature is to make sense as a concept, there must also be nonergodic literature, where the effort to traverse the text is trivial, with no extranoematic responsibilities placed on the reader except (for example)...
A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing... →
LiveJournal and the shape of fannish discourse →
Busker, Rebecca Lucy. 2008. On symposia: LiveJournal and the shape of fannish discourse.
Engineering Man for Space: NASA's cyborg study
From NASw-512, “Engineering Man for Space”; May 15th, 1963 (abstract). More: Cyborg bibliography. via @caseorganic http://remotedevice.net/blog/engineering-man-for-space-nasas-cyborg-study/
paulicio.us | Paul Bennett →
Outstanding experimental Wordpress design.
Unthinkingly.com →
Nonprofit interaction design by Chris Blow
Pico Projector →
The Pico Projector projects big, bright, and colorful images that are always in focus, yet it is small enough to fit in your pocket.
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Immersive Media 360-degree video of Port-au-Prince...
Use mouse to click and pan. Source: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index.html?hpt=C1
Bruce Mau Design Manifesto →
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau’s beliefs, strategies and motivations. Collectively, they are how we approach every project.
MOBYLIVES →
News and Commentary about Books and Writers
Bestiario - interactive information spaces,...
Bestiario is a Barcelona/Lisbon-based Flash-based info visualization group whose projects “permit the treatment of abundant amounts of diverse relational information of all kinds.” Portfolio site: http://www.bestiario.org/ Blog: http://blog.bestiario.org/about/
Anatomy of an ARG →
Flow/asset chart for a recent ARG project (via @vpisteve)
Grey Area - Mobile Alternate Reality Gaming →
A pervasive, location aware, multiplayer experience. Play wherever you are. A brave new world. Cities as playing fields, neighborhoods as front lines.
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Winter via the I-15
Some pics from the drive back to LA from Alberta See and download the full gallery on posterous
NYC LCD billboard graffiti
The magic of cardboard. The mythos of Star Fox. More info: http://www.bladediary.com/ (via Urban Prankster)
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Vic Chesnutt: Flirted With You All My Life
James Victor “Vic” Chesnutt (November 12, 1964 – December 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter living in Athens, Georgia. His first album, Little, was released in 1990, but his breakthrough to commercial success didn’t come until 1996 with the release of Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation, a tribute album of mainstream artists covering his songs. ...
“I didn’t give up writing poetry, I like to say; poetry gave up on me. Through...”
– Goodbye to All Them by Daniel Nester - The Morning News (via @jaybushman)
“Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are...”
– U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes
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“…what does it mean for a cybertext to be experienced via a mobile device?...”
– Knifeandfork - Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling