Category Archives: Blog

The Long Awaited

Posted on Nov 30, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Patricia Piccinini’s The Long Awaited. H/T: whatshisname the stranger

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Interactive Video Object Manipulation

Posted on Nov 28, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Looks like Adobe is cooking up some pretty cool tools for everyday video manipulation and animation… This demo illustrates our research to bring interactivity to video editing: Our system analyzes videos using computer vision techniques, enabling interactive annotation, browsing, and … Continue reading →

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David Shrigley

Posted on Nov 27, 2008 by Jeff Watson

David Shrigley is a writer and illustrator from Glasgow. Check out samples from his sometimes unsettling (and often hilarious) books at his website, davidshrigley.com. H/T: Ms. B

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EBR: How to Do Words with Things

Posted on Nov 12, 2008 by Jeff Watson

A review of Ira Lingston’s Between Science and Literature, by Stephen Dougherty: Or is it more like that which Karen Barad has been crafting and clarifying for nearly a decade? If performativity theory shall ever succeed at “meeting the universe … Continue reading →

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Sticky Tape Makes X-Rays

Posted on Oct 26, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Via nature.com

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Geograph British Isles

Posted on Oct 15, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Geograph British Isles is a crowdsourcing project that “…aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland.” They just got their 1,000,000th photograph today. It’s called, “Minor road near Aberuchill.” Here it … Continue reading →

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I Wish I were the Moon

Posted on Oct 2, 2008 by Jeff Watson

I Wish I were the Moon is an evocative minigame by Daniel Benmergui:

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Flash Robber

Posted on Oct 2, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Tuesday, in Washington state: …a brazen crook apparently used a Craigslist ad to hire a dozen unsuspecting decoys to help him make his getaway following a robbery outside a bank on Tuesday… [Apparently,] the robber had planned ahead. In case … Continue reading →

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Rephotographing Atget

Posted on Sep 27, 2008 by Jeff Watson

Christopher Rauschenberg writes: Eugene Atget documented Paris from 1888 until his death in 1927. Like many people, I consider him to have been the greatest photographer of all time. Atget straightforwardly documented the city with photographs that give you the … Continue reading →

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Strategic Questions #2

Posted on Sep 27, 2008 by Jeff Watson

The Strategic Questions series published by Book Works is "…an ongoing project to develop forty projects related to forty questions written by R. Buckminster Fuller. Each project is an artwork or a combination of artworks, developed in response to one … Continue reading →

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