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Bookmark Hands-on: Sleep Is Death
A lot of game critics you talk to will tell you that, after making a career of playing games, it takes a lot to impress them. But that's not exactly the…

April 6 2010, 9:03am | Comments
Bookmark Manipulating Reality - How Images Redefine the World
Manipulating Reality presents a selection of 23 artistic approaches that work through photography and video to develop possible models of reality. Its aim is not to understand whether photographs can convey…

January 29 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Bookmark The World Question Center 2010: How is the Internet Changing the Way…
Read any newspaper or magazine and you will notice the many flavors of the one big question that everyone is asking today. Or you can just stay on the page and…

January 8 2010, 9:55am | Comments
Bookmark Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the Tabernacle…

January 8 2010, 9:02am | Comments
Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding
A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments
Bookmark The 99 Best Free Games Of 2009
Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009,…

January 5 2010, 7:50am | Comments
Metafilter Arcangel and the future of digi/net art Corey Arcangel is perhaps the internet's most infamous hack, masher-upper, digi/net artist. His work stands for a growing culture of artists who run wildly through animated GIF landscapes populated with corrupted data-compressed bunny rabbits and tinny, MIDI renditions of Savage Garden ballads. As…

December 8 2009, 5:44am | Comments
Portfolio 100% Magenta

November 13 2009, 1:40am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 9:02pm | Comments
Bookmark 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments
Bookmark -R-G-B-
WARNING! THIS LINK HAS BRIGHT FLASHING COLORS. DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES

October 16 2009, 7:59am | Comments
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October 13 2009, 2:59pm | Comments
Bookmark On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark This Is The Only Level
This is the Only Level is a 2D platformer in which you have to guide a boldly unanimated elephant over a series of pits, some of which are filled with spikes,…

August 15 2009, 6:54pm | Comments
Bookmark Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker
I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was…

July 27 2009, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark What do Amnesia, Immortality, and Mind Control have to do with Game…
What breaks your sense of presence in a story? The culture of video game playing has developed a tolerance for the common practices and limitations in designing and producing games. We’ve…

July 11 2009, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark From Book to Anti-Book
by Harry Polkinhorn - To arrive at a theoretical understanding of artists' books, it is perhaps best to begin, as Richard Kostelanetz points out in his essay entitled "Book Art," on…

July 7 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance,…
This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change…

July 6 2009, 9:37am | Comments
Bookmark Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark Maastricht Ceramic Design
Petrus Regout (a name associated with worker exploitation even today) started a modern earthenware production factory in Maastricht, the capital of the far South-Eastern Dutch province of Limburg, in 1836. Sphinx…

June 22 2009, 9:08am | Comments
Bibliography The Open Work

June 8 2009, 1:40am | Comments
Bookmark Grumpy Gamer Stuff and Things and Monkey Island
About a year and a little more ago, as I began designing the uber-awesome DeathSpank at Hothead Games, I played all the way through The Secret of Monkey Island to refresh…

June 6 2009, 9:31am | Comments
Bookmark Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to…
How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Positions in Flux - Panel 3: Open Source - A scheme for…
The open source movement is driven by the idea of collective, process-based, sustainable production and improvement. In software development this strategy has already proven to be valid; however can this model…

May 20 2009, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Evil Lair: On the Architecture of the Enemy in Videogame Worlds
Game developers are unconstrained in their designs for the enemy. Such designers will be punished with poor sales, not death in the gulag, if their designs for the overlord are unpopular.…

May 17 2009, 3:23am | Comments
Bookmark MachineAnimalCollages
Fantastic meat landscapes and animals made of machinery

May 5 2009, 1:02am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments

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