A finished look by Ms. Ellis incorporates a neon print based on screen grabs taken from Skype conversations at moments when her computer froze. The images had gone “pixilated and weird,” she said. “I like the moment when technology breaks down and something isn’t quite right.

. A couple of years ago, Wired Magazine published a cover story on push media. It argued that push was the future of online publishing: instead of having to go somewhere and pull content down, these media platforms push content to you, keeping you engaged and involved. Most of the various push media plays that were being hyped at that time have died. But email lists - the original, low-tech push media - continue to thrive. Email lists are better for building online community than Web-based threaded discussion or chat systems because they reach out to you and ask for your attention. Until you unsubscribe, the email keeps appearing in your in box. In an attention-deficit economy, proactive media are particularly effective.

via thessaly

We're in a transitional world right now, if you're in any kind of artistic field, because the nature of distribution is changing, the models by which creators got their work out into the world, and got to keep a roof over their heads and buy sandwiches while they did that, are all changing. I've talked to people at the top of the food chain in publishing, in bookselling, in all those areas, and nobody knows what the landscape will look like two years from now, let alone a decade away. The distribution channels that people had built over the last century or so are in flux for print, for visual artists, for musicians, for creative people of all kinds.-Neil Gaiman

kashmir finally made it!!!

darpa at markerfaire etc...

woah, worst social media piece i've read in a while. via changist

via adam harvey

This is an experiment where the mise en scene of the comic strip is done directly to film. It's bizarre and hilarious and apparently the website that hosted it is no more. So if you're the owner, step up and put this on Youtube in a HD format. It deserves the attention because it is awesome.

e Near Future (0-50 years from the time the work came out), Middle Future (51-500 years from the time the work came out) and Far Future (501+ years from the time the work came out).

wow, epic trolling

what?

via @spitzenprodukte

2001-ish posts

Welcome to DanKam, a $3 app being released today on iPhone and Android (ISSUES WITH CHECKOUT RESOLVED!  THIS CODE IS LIVE!).  DanKam is an augmented reality application, designed to one of several unique and configurable filters to images and video such that colors — and differences between colors — are more visible to the color blind.

model pictures billboards defaces with photoshop gradient graffiti.

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Our obsession with heritage is creating an artificial re-engineered version of our memory.

preach!

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes. We can put a stop to this. Please retweet.

not sure whether to laugh or cry

In many children, though, the signs are subtler. Callous-unemotional children tend to be highly manipulative, Frick notes. They also lie frequently — not just to avoid punishment, as all children will, but for any reason, or none... Callous-unemotional children are unrepentant. “They don’t care if someone is mad at them,” Frick says. “They don’t care if they hurt someone’s feelings.” Like adult psychopaths, they can seem to lack humanity. “If they can get what they want without being cruel, that’s often easier,” Frick observes. “But at the end of the day, they’ll do whatever works best.”

“This isn’t like autism, where the child and parents will find support,” Edens observes. “Even if accurate, it’s a ruinous diagnosis. No one is sympathetic to the mother of a psychopath.”

“I wish I had known about Steampunk sooner,” the Waltham resident said. “I hope they have it every year.”

via bruces (15k people to waltham???)

Bits was a computer game show on 4 later presented by Aleks Krotoski, Emily 'Bouff' Booth and Emily Newton Dunn, Don't know which series or episode it is as i recently found the tape that i recorded it on many moons ago.
Reviews include :- Black and White, Herdy Gerdy, Malice, MTV Music Generator, C-12 : Final Resistance, Star Trek : Away Team, Quake III Revolution And many more.

Emboldened, I sought to eliminate “sorry” and “thank you” from my spoken workplace interactions as well, sometimes literally covering my mouth (passing it off as a “thoughtful” pose) during meetings to keep from uttering them. I found myself smiling less and bargaining harder.

A New Jersey company, Hibernia Atlantic, is spending $300 million to run a new cable across the Atlantic Ocean so that information can travel 5.2 milliseconds faster between New York and London.

nice counter to "clicktavism"

"if you came from mars, you'd think all we did was worship the screen"-russell davies