That would be fun to analyse with SSK: It’s as funny as it’s comforting for a researcher. The hesitations, the constant going back-and-forth, the genius moments as well as the gradual dive down towards self-loathing. It’s all there. Found first while checking out Boing Boing. It comes form Paul Vallett’s blog, Electron Cafe, a nifty [...]
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Interview with Ben Fry (Where 2.0 2011)
I found this on Nathan Yau’s excellent blog, Flowing Data. The video link comes from Ben Fry’s firm Fathom Design, and features a talk on data visualization with Mac Slocum, O’Reilly Radar’s editor. One of Fry’s answers will get anyone into media history, media ecology or mediology to watch the whole interview: Q: A point [...]
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Transparence
De tous les idéaux dont nous avons hérité des Lumières, la transparence est peut-être le seul à ne pas avoir été profondément remis en cause à l’époque contemporaine. Tout au contraire, là où d’autres notions utopiques ont prouvé leur incapacité à résister à la récupération totalitaire, l’idéal de la transparence n’en est ressorti que renforcé, [...]
Ben Tolman: “Cognitive transformation”
I found this illustration on Mind Hacks first. It reminded me of Fritz Kahn’s artwork for a moment. That was before I explored Ben Tolman’s gallery, featuring ink drawings which can be viewed with great detail through zoomify. Ben Tolman invites us to a great experience consisting of various wanderings on his website. Mouse scrolls [...]
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Uncanny Valley
Last Saturday, I was reading an article from Le Devoir about a reconstructed carthaginian man who died 2600 about years ago. Journalist Pauline Gravel’s description of dermoplasty was the most interesting thing about it: Une fois la tête posée sur le corps, Élisabeth Daynès a entrepris le moulage de l’ensemble de la sculpture de terre. [...]
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“It’s all language”
I prefer my title to the one the video uploaded was with: “Graphic Design can change your life”. On his blog, Erik Spiekermann comments it with a simple “their words, not mine”. A blog really worth exploring, by the way. This excerpt is taken from an interview with Gestalten.tv (which I’ve just discovered as well). [...]
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Help me, information
Chuck Berry – Memphis, Tennesseeenvoyé par Red_Chuck. – Clip, interview et concert. Chuck Berry performing Memphis, Tennnessee with Trini Lopez. 04-05-1965. The use of the term “information” in the song gets very enjoyable in a media ecologist’s ears.
Circuit Diagram
from XKCD
Close to the machine
The video comes from Matthew Sarnoff’s website and describes one of his projects: Sadly, I was born a couple years too late to grow up with an 8-bit home computer. (though I did use Apple IIs in elementary school.) In an attempt to compensate, and relive a childhood I never had, I’ve decided to design [...]
Dynamics and technology
By the early 1990s, remarkable advancements in two commercial 3–D modeling software packages, Alias/Wavefront and Softimage, offered revolutionary possibilities for architectural design. Alias, the forerunner of todays Maya, was developed for the automobile industry to model complex car parts, and it got architects talking when filmmakers used it to create the 3–D special effects in [...]
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