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Metafilter Ask MeFi: Seeking documentaries about digital art I am looking for some good documentaries about digital art. What do you recommend? Biographical movies about artists that make art with PhotoShop would be great. Movies about…

May 12 2013, 4:17pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: GIANT GOD WARRIOR APPEARS IN TOKYO Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)

April 24 2013, 5:41pm | Comments

Metafilter Use of The City as a metaphor for the… I am looking for examinations of the Internet and World Wide Web that use the structure and/or history of the city as a metaphor. I'm afraid I have…

April 12 2013, 10:19am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: My Little Pony Wife The Internet finally reaches its apex as man marrying My Little Pony character writes angry email to erotic pony artist.

March 22 2013, 8:04pm | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Christian Marclay's The Clock. List of films? For my next viewing project, I was thinking of watching everything which appears in Christian Marclay's The Clock in order. Very slowly, obviously. Does anyone have a definitive…

March 1 2013, 2:35am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: A literary character with the actual power to… How To Write Drone Fiction: "One can easily and self-righteously claim the merits of writing non-fiction about drones by asserting a primacy of fact over “false fiction”. The…

February 20 2013, 12:15pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: How appropriate. You fight like a cow. The insult swordfighting from LucasArts' Monkey Island series is now available as a standalone browser game.

January 15 2013, 11:24am | Comments

Metafilter Critical Contexts for Writing : a reading list I've been asked to put together a longish reading list for a BA Art/Literature module, and I'd love some ideas for texts outside my current knowledge. The list…

December 14 2012, 6:55am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: what tools and models do we have… what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration?

November 26 2012, 7:11am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Modern doublethink? What are some actual (non-fictional) modern, Orwellian / dystopian phrases?

November 12 2012, 1:03pm | Comments

Metafilter The Library of Babel in 140 characters (or fewer) The universe (which others call The Twitter) is composed of every word in the English language; Shakespeare's folios, line-by-line-by-line; the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, exploded; Constantine XI,…

October 27 2012, 9:15am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm In 1968, William Greaves conducted a filmmaking experiment in Central Park, wherein a film crew (directed by himself) filmed the non-existent movie "Over The Cliff", while a documentary…

October 13 2012, 7:08pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Million Short: A different way to search the… "Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100)…

September 20 2012, 1:07pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: John Peel - The scope of music on… A user on Soundcloud has posted 458 full John Peel shows. The shows range from 2004 BBC episodes all the way back to several 1967 Radio London shows.…

September 11 2012, 6:04pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Time for Teletubbies: Resistance is Futile Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction - how the BBC children's show reveals our posthuman future.

September 5 2012, 12:58pm | Comments

Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments

Metafilter The Pantone Merkel Chart A Pantone chart of German chancellor Angela Merkel's many coloured jackets

July 17 2012, 2:52pm | Comments

Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments

Metafilter Sloppy MicroChips: Can a fair comparison be made between… Was reading about microchips that are designed to allow a few mistakes (known as 'Sloppy Chips'), and pondering equivalent kinds of 'coding' errors and entropy in biological systems.…

June 5 2012, 10:05am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: How can I take advantage of the… I want to make a music video straight to VHS. How can I maximize the glitches and poor quality associated with the medium?

May 18 2012, 10:32pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: "It didn’t bother you to see the world… In a recent episode of Mad Men titled "Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were…

May 11 2012, 12:03am | Comments

Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was…

April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments

Metafilter A Database of Metaphor The Mind is a Metaphor. A database of thousands of metaphors organized by category, like 18th century, Liquid, or Jacobite. It's maintained by University of Virginia English Professor…

March 27 2012, 7:06pm | Comments

Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort… "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20…

March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments

Metafilter Would an alien radio pick up a cacophony or… If an alien located on a planet 100 light years from here was to switch on a big, multi-frequency radio receiver, and record all the noises coming from…

February 23 2012, 5:09am | Comments

Metafilter Digital Images are SomeThing to aspire to? (A reflection… Artist and film-maker, Hito Steyerl, asks us to stand shoulder to shoulder with our digital equivalents. Digital images are Things (like you and me) - a plethora of…

February 16 2012, 5:13am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: You've been living in a dream world, Ginger. "As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate." It's the Matrix. For chickens.

February 15 2012, 3:34pm | Comments

Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

January 22 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Keep my iPod display from lighting when… How can I keep my iPod display from lighting up with notifications?

January 22 2012, 2:48am | Comments

Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what…

January 13 2012, 8:20am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Classical vs statistical entropy Can someone explain to me in layman's terms the relation between classical entropy (heat over temperature) and statistical entropy (-k \sum p_i ln p_i)? More specifically, how do…

December 12 2011, 1:24am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Dominoes, move over. This is a stick bomb. This is an AWESOME STICK BOMB. This is an awesome kid showing you how to make your own stick bomb. This is another…

October 5 2011, 11:17am | Comments

Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe…

September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

Metafilter Innovative websites as template for MFA research community I'm looking for examples of websites that have successfully enhanced a research community (academic or artistic) with a dynamic online/social/mutual-portfolio presence. Blog and social media based hubs, perhaps,…

September 16 2011, 7:26am | Comments

Metafilter F**k Statistics Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations: Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today Christians and Atheists…

August 31 2011, 6:05am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Intriguing analysis for the lead up to and… Was Child's Infected? (Part1) (Part 2) An in depth analysis of John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing, focusing on the alien assimilation timeline, and, perhaps more intriguingly, an…

August 21 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

Metafilter New 'Solaris' translation locked in Limbo Solaris, Stanislaw Lem's 1961 masterpiece, has finally been translated directly into English. The current print version, in circulation for over 4 decades, was the result of a double-translation.…

June 19 2011, 5:29am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: How do I repair corrupted JPEGs? How do I repair corrupted JPEGs?

June 14 2011, 11:46pm | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: How long can they last? In the novel, The Road, the people are slowly starving to death due to a nuclear (assumption) winter. What is the reality of this situation?

May 19 2011, 4:26pm | Comments

Metafilter GIF Archaeology I'm writing a paper on (animated) GIFs and am trying to track down some of the most (in)famous. I suppose I am talking memes, but I'm more interested…

May 16 2011, 8:17am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: Jorge Borges Jorge Luis Borges delivers the Norton lectures at Harvard, 1968: The Riddle of Poetry :: The Metaphor :: A Poet's Creed

April 28 2011, 2:47pm | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Why is entropy necessary for there to… In the From Eternity to Here episode of the Science Talk podcast, Sean Carroll says that without entropy there could be no memory. Could you provide an explanation…

April 21 2011, 3:06pm | Comments

Metafilter (Contemporary) Japanese karaoke hits Karaoke in Japanese. Am looking for tracks with a karaoke version on YouTube for an event. This old post has some great ideas, but sadly half of them…

April 1 2011, 3:41am | Comments

Metafilter Projects: GLTI.CH Karaoke is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing…

March 25 2011, 11:17am | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: All Your Art Are Belong To Us All your art are belong to us. Previously, Rogert Ebert said that video games can never be art. And previously, some disagreed. In a recent opinion piece, game…

March 16 2011, 10:12am | Comments

Metafilter Webcam Karaoke I would like to display Karaoke lyrics over a live webcam feed. This means I might need a skype (or equivalent) plugin that plays the music & lyrics,…

March 10 2011, 5:05am | Comments

Metafilter The Soul Niche Swimming around in a mixture of language and matter, humans occupy a particular evolutionary niche mediated by something we call 'consciousness'. To Professor Nicholas Humphrey we're made up…

February 4 2011, 2:46am | Comments

Metafilter Using a Facebook 'page' as University Research Hub My university department (art postgrad) wants to use Facebook as a community and research hub. What is the best way to go about this? In a perfect world…

November 18 2010, 9:12am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: What techniques do you use to make… What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

October 11 2010, 8:24pm | Comments

Metafilter Going (London) Underground The London Underground. Every Londoner has used it, but has everyone really seen it? The old map is looking a bit dusty. Perhaps its time for Geographic precision…

August 13 2010, 5:47am | Comments

Metafilter Ask MeFi: Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm. Recommend me music without pulse or rhythm.

June 1 2010, 7:11pm | Comments

Metafilter MeFi: If the past is a palimpsest, what are… Ten days ago, Slate Magazine conducted an experiment modeled on the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984: they asked readers to look at eight photographs of notable…

May 28 2010, 1:12am | Comments

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