January 2012
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Coding - the new Latin →
(via the BBC News)
Lego, geeks grab the brick
Lego, les geeks s’emparent de la brique (via Nouvo)
Realtime face cloning technology by Arturo Castro (via The Next Web)
Feist on Black Cab Sessions (via The Fox is Black)
Milton Glaser has a new website
Miltonglaser.com designed by Ludlow Kingsley
On mobile, the ideal app is one where the icon and the name of the app tells you...
– Phil Libin, CEO Evernote (via jxnblk)
Fetishizing Modern Society’s Objects →
Bughouse’s Future Fossils Series brings into stark relief Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism and Baudrilliard’s exploration of cultural objects as sign systems of identity manufacture.
In Marx’s critique of political economy, commodity fetishism denotes the mystification of human relations said to arise out of the growth of market trade, when social relationships between people are expressed...
A Phytoplankton Bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean... →
Hidden webcam: the reluctance to be observed →
Observed on one of my student’s laptop. He told me that he “did not want to be observed” (nor he wanted his laptop to be controlled from elsewhere). Which is why he he put a (French) stamp (“easy to remove”, he told me) on the camera.
Why do I blog this? This is an interesting example of these little signs of how users try to reclaim a form of control on digital technology. Even if the laptop...
2012: Let’s Go →
Back in June of last year, I made the following draft post entitled “Yearnotes 2011”:
At 6.30 on the evening of Monday the 30th of May, on the beach at Whitstable, I ate an oyster.
We cycled there from London. It was a good day. Many of them were.
I’m a little late for the usual yearnotes, which would be far too verbose in any case, but let it be said that 2011 was brilliant, and 2012 is...
Augmented Reality: Microsoft Edison Lab... →
*That’s messed-up. Gets freaky around 4:00.
LAZY DANCIN’ WIT DIRTY PARAFFIN
(via Stocktown)
December 2011
Music videos from 2011
Memory Tapes - Yes I Know
Caribou - Jamelia
Matthew Dear - Headcage
Björk - Crystalline
EFTERKLANG - Modern Drift (AN ISLAND Outtake)
Yourstru.ly - Little Dragon “Little Man”
Toro Y Moi - How I know
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(via ISO50)
asada's memorandum: The Day I Saw Van Gogh's... →
asada0:
Japanease version
The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in…
It's no biggie is one of my favourite tumblr →