January 2012
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“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow...”
– Paul Auster
[via human-voices]
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“To seduce is to appear weak. To seduce is to render weak. We seduce with our...”
– Baudrillard
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Why Designers Still Can't Think →
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HTML5 Canvas & Processing JS →
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“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer...”
– J.G. Ballard
[via mothorchid]
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“Some are so fastidious they have no furniture at all, being allergic to the...”
– NYT
[via magnificentruin]
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“It provides a sort of parallax. If you only have one eye, you don’t have depth...”
– William Gibson on perspective through time… obliqueness: Interview with William Gibson (The Verge)
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“He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is...”
– Franz Kafka
[via kafkaesque-world]
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Hopefully I’ll be able to get back my scanner today and I’m gonna scan some photographies of Jean Baudrillard, Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama… it’s been a while I meant to do that.
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The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com →
This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion...
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slaapliedje:
Soap&Skin | Boat Turns Toward...
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McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion
multiple35:
McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion Gary Genosko’s timely study traces McLuhan’s influence on the work of Jean Baudrillard, arguing that McLuhan’s ideas have been far more influential than hitherto imagined in the development of postmodern theory. Genosko explores how McLuhan’s ideas persist and are distorted through Baudrillard’s work. He argues that it is through...
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Following Borges' Map
martinmcgagh:
(Caution: long article ahead.)
A few months back I posted about the Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘On Exactitude in Science’, where the Argentine writer imagined a map so large and detailed that it eclipsed the very land it was charting. It’s a lyrical take on the ‘map-territory relation’ - an idea first proposed by Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski in...
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25 life-saving tips for Processing « Amnon P5 →
1. frameCount, millis(), modulo % and noise 2. math, logical and relational operator shortcuts 3. math with ints 4. frameRate 5. loading specific files from an external input directory 6. timestamp 7. fast image sequence saving 8. slow fade & simulated motion blur 9. combining 2D and 3D drawing 10. change the transparency of an image 11. mirror images vertically or horizontally 12. take full...
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“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka
[via kafkaesque-world]
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Anyone knows of a Web TV, or something, that would stream Generative Art videos? (I’d like to try to dedicate a screen to that kind of thing…)
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WatchGlyph is a projection sculpture
[via Glyph « DEPART]
The installation runs in realtime – the video shows a random segment recorded at schmiede 2011.
Glyph is a projection sculpture with references to ritual monuments such as obelisks or stelas. It deals with cyclic change and constantly regenerates itself. An alphabet based on fundamental geometric shapes (rectangle, circle and...
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WatchTemple (01/12)
by subBlue
One of twelve looping 3D fractal animations created for a 147 screen installation at L’Eclaireur in Paris in the summer of 2011. No audio. See the full set at subblue.com/blog/2012/01/06/leclaireur
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Processing_layers →
senceablemoscow:
Layers library in processing allows to use layers in your sketch pretty similar to how you do it in photoshop
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zewarehouse.tumblr.com →
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http://www.pocode.org/ →
pocode is an open-source C library designed by Potion for the production of interactive media across multiple platforms. pocode provides a robust, high-performance software infrastructure that allows for the creation of all types of software, from simple visual sketches to elegant mobile apps to entire software applications.
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“Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited...”
– Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com by William Gibson
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“Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the...”
– An interview with William Gibson | The Verge
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“La Lisbeth Salander de Fincher est donc à la fois machine et humaine, programme...”
– Chronicart.com | Cinéma - En Salles : Millenium : les hommes qui n’aimaient pas les femmes
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popnarrative:
The engineer invents machines, guided by people’s daily needs — he wants to make labour, and thus life, easier for them. However, not by bread alone… The artist could be said to extend his range in order to further communication, to enable people to understand one another on the highest intellectual, emotional, psychological and philosophical level. Thus the artist’s efforts,...
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“Dans la prophétie de Huxley, Big Brother ne cherche pas à nous surveiller. C’est...”
– Neil Postman - Se distraire à en mourir
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