Monthly Archives: March 2009

Giant Amoebas Ooze Through Texas

This is both fascinating and terrifying news: an organism that can break down into self-sufficient parts only to re-constitute itself as a massive Blob-like mega-entity. A prime candidate, evolution-wise, to usurp us genetically-varied individualists: Scientists say the discovery is much … Continue reading

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Translating Media

TRANSLATING MEDIA is a Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD (iMAP) Program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. The event is co-sponsored by the USC … Continue reading

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David Lynch on iPhone

…’nuff said.

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Deadmau5 iPhone app

I think the albums-as-applications concept will probably go a lot further than just a simple track-mixing app like this one by electronica artist Deadmau5, but this is definitely a step in the right direction. Deadmau5’s iPhone app ($3 on iTunes) … Continue reading

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Adrian Hon: Turning the Whole World into Disneyland

Adrian Hon’s company, Six to Start, won Best in Show at this week’s SXSW Web Awards for their project, Telling Stories. In an interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick, Hon talks up the nascent potential of ubicomp storytelling: “Soon people will realize … Continue reading

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Book Autopsies

Brian Dettmer creates these fascinating sculptures by carving into books and revealing the illustrations within. A collection of photographs of Brian’s works can be viewed at Centripetal Notion. H/T Cynthia P.

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Pachube

I’ve been researching network-connected buildings and data services for my location-based storytelling project. Along the way, I discovered Pachube, a web service that enables the tagging, linking and sharing of sensor data from real-world objects and environments: The key aim … Continue reading

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