March 2009
72 posts
DIY Freaks Flock to 'Hacker Spaces' Worldwide →
Noisebridge’s members have filled this small space with an enviable collection of shared tools, parts and works in progress.
Game-design lessons from Disneyland →
Today at the Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco, I saw an outstanding talk on the lessons for level design to be had in the design of Disneyland. It was presented by Scott Rogers…
"San Diego and the Origins of Conceptual Art in... →
San Diego is a sleeper in the art world, always overshadowed by that rather larger cultural engine 120 miles to the north. If institutional and commercial infrastructure has often been the city’s…
Booka Shade's "Body Language" sound →
Don't stop being my Scarygirl →
Today’s best art/toy/game crossover (and a nice snack before tomorrow’s Game Over/Continue? show), Australia’s Touch My Pixel has sent over the latest trailer for their forthcoming web…
The Periodic Table of Controllers →
“The Periodic Table of Controllers” by Pixel Fantasy.
How-to: Hacking RjDj with PD →
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RjDj is a sound application for the Apple iPhone that allows users to access “scenes” that transform sound that comes in through the microphone and allows additional tweakage via the the…
Mind Machine Museum →
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~hl/mmm.html
GDC - The Game - Part 1, Tuesday: 'Fear of... →
I loved Petri Purho’s graphs yesterday. His candid post-mortem on Crayon Physics Deluxe detailed how he used player testing to fine-tune the difficulty between the levels, after having…
Indie Games Summit: Polytron debut new Fez trailer →
If you weren’t in Kyle Gabler and Phil Fish’s early morning indie games promotion session, a special treat for you: Polytron’s second Fez trailer showing off its newly updated mechanics…
Twitch, Chrome Experiments Launch →
The Chrome Experiments site was launched today to feature the JavaScript potential of the new Google Chrome Web browser. A few of the projects, including my contribution called Twitch…
The CR Taxi →
For any design-aware visitor, Mumbai’s yellow and black taxis, which constitute a major part of the city’s horrendous traffic, are a wondrous sight. The majority are richly decorated with…
New Musical Instruments Battle →
“It was like a low-stakes X Prize for music as musicians, inventors and hobbyists competed against each other in the first annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech for cash…
PING))) Ultrasonic Sensor →
“Parallax’s PING))) ultrasonic sensor provides a very low-cost and easy method of distance measurement. This sensor is perfect for any number of applications that require you to perform measurements…
Bat For Lashes - Daniel →
Bookmarks in ANSI →
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Unkle, Heaven - Directed by Spike Jonze →
The world’s eyes →
From the Senseable City Lab of MIT comes this interactive visualization displaying geotagged Flickr photos on a map.
Los ojos del mundo (the world’s eyes) illustrates the photos…
The Astronomer’s Dream by Malcolm Sutherland →
Check out this trailer for The Astronomer’s Dream - a great new animated film by Montreal animator, Malcolm Sutherland.
Also of interest:
Previously: Malcolm Sutherland …
Roll Your Own Multitouch Screens, Tables: Max... →
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Ever feel like you’ve found the seam dividing past and future?
The past: restrictive UI frameworks requiring pages and pages of code to produce dated-look 2D displays. Proprietary…
Bike accessory leaves a trail of chalk behind you →
Contrail is a device that applies chalk to the rear tire of your bike, leaving a trail behind you. It leaves trails for motorists and other cyclists to see, enabling bikers to…
Wilkinson Residence in Portland, Oregon →
This residential property in Portland took seven years to complete and was focused on realizing the passion of its owner, a music lover, who ‘wanted a house that not only became a part of the…
glitchNES by No Carrier released →
glitchNES is an open source software project for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This software causes graphical glitches similar to hardware circuit-bending. The current version is 0.1…
The Seed →
The Seed from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.
DATAFLUX 0.1 →
DATAFLUX 0.1 is an installation by Kit Webster, a sound and strobe light synchronisation are mapped onto pillars. It is very similar to the work of Pablo Valbuena, WHITEvoid or …
Checkin' In: Artist and scientist Natalie... →
Environmentalist, artist, scientist, activist, and engineer are just a few of the hats that maker Natalie Jeremijenko wears, and she always seems to devise projects that blend her many…
Review: "West Side Story" on Broadway →
The further we get in time from when “West Side Story” was written, the more the musical’s mythic dimension come into focus. This beloved 1957 classic earns its timeless status not…
Molestown →
An exercise in the disgustingly cute
Daniel Eric Wilsons’ Sketchbook Project →
Daniel Eric Wilsons 30 page moleskin sketchbook project at hosergraphics.com
Kate Moross rocks! →
A cross between psychedelia 70s laced with an apparent obsession with Sargent Peppers’s record sleeve making and post-punk eras, most of her gigs are entertainment and music industry related. Kate Moross is a 22 year old London based creative practicing as an illustrator and graphic designer.
She also runs ISO & Isomorph Records which you can read about here. She claims having “a fascination...
Opinion: How Indie Video Games Helped Bridge The... →
The evolution of all forms of creative culture inevitably means the establishment of an initial niche, and a gradual leaking out of that medium until it permeates popular knowledge, almost…
iPhone Game Pick: Eliss (Steph Thirion) →
Eliss is a multi-touch based action game for the iPhone/iPod Touch developed by Steph Thirion with innovation written all over it. Lots of different coloured planets pop onto the…
Watching the Street (Navigator) / citySCENE →
Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE has just launched. As editor Greg J. Smith writes:
This issue of Vague Terrain is founded on two notions - that the city is a stage set for intervention and an engine for representation.
The collection expands out from this premise in multiple directions: carto-mashups, projection-bombing, sound walks, psychogeographic imaging and ubicomp experiments. Early highlights...
Ordos Hilton Hotel by VMX Architects →
Amsterdam office VMX Architects have won a competition to design a new Hilton Hotel in Inner Mongolia, China. (more…)