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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: history
Trionfi.com: a massive, rambling archive of playing and fortune cards
Trionfi.com has got to be one of the most confusing and messy websites on the whole internet. It’s also a pretty amazing archive of thousands of playing and fortune card scans dating back to the 14th century. If you can … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, card decks, cards, history, web design
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The Lion Man of the Hohlenstein Stadel is 32,000 years old
Everything that has happened since the time of Augustus Caesar takes up only 6.25% of the time that has passed since the Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel was made. A lion headed figure, first called the lion man (German: … Continue reading
Futurity Now: Bruce Sterling on Atemporality
Bruce Sterling’s keynote from the Transmediale Festival (6 Feb 2010) delivers some brilliant and provocative ideas about the role of the creative artist in the context of an increasingly atemporal culture. Continue reading
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Tagged atemporality, bruce sterling, history, knowledge production, richard feynman, transmediale
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Los Angeles 2106
As the second phase of The City of the Future challenge, IBM and The History Channel, in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), challenged engineering students in NYC, Chicago and LA to propose innovative engineering solutions that … Continue reading