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Brilliant Mort Meskin work up recently from The Fabuleous...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:32:02 -0500

Brilliant Mort Meskin work up recently from The Fabuleous Fifties.

“Wait, a simple game where the player is encouraged to...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:18:00 -0500

“Wait, a simple game where the player is encouraged to refrain from acting on the world. As the player moves the world disappears, but when the player waits, the world becomes more interesting. The majesty is found in the slow, controlled effort. Players are awarded points when the little things in life reveal themselves.”

2010 IGF Main Competition entrant Wait by Critical Gameplay.

"This said, the basic idea presented here is that there are two “principles” that art may..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:06:06 -0500

“This said, the basic idea presented here is that there are two “principles” that art may exist in, the autonomous (prestige is accorded to artists by other artists) and heteronomous (where quality is judged by sales or performance within the market). The comics Beaty is looking at are more-or-less governed by the autonomous principle. This seems like a really old, really trivial idea, and not particularly interesting. It’s the difference between art-for-arts-sake and selling out, between integrity and stardom, between being an artists’ artist and being a people’s artist. But when combined with the notion mentioned above—that editors and agents and publishers are the determiners of value—the difference becomes more complex. Because as soon as an editor (or gallery owner) decides to take a chance on you, success in the market starts coming into play.”

- The Great God Pan Is Dead: Comics As Art in Europe

Merle Haggard, “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down”,...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:54:16 -0500

Merle Haggard, “Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down”, 1968. Seen first at Bear Family Records.

"Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:34:03 -0500

““Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. “In fact,” he says, “for the most part people completely ignore contrary information. “The study demonstrates voters’ ability to develop elaborate rationalizations based on faulty information,” he explains.”

- How We Support Our False Beliefs seen first at Naked Capitalism.

batlle and roig architects: cages for macaws at the barcelona...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:28:01 -0500

batlle and roig architects: cages for macaws at the barcelona zoo, 2009 Design Award winners at the World Architecture Festival. via designboom.

Bustler: Australian Institute of Architects 2009 National...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:25:00 -0500

Bustler: Australian Institute of Architects 2009 National Architecture Awards. Pictured above: Freshwater House by Chenchow Little Architects.

Jaws, the Manga. Via An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla,...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:47:00 -0500

Jaws, the Manga. Via An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla, seen first at Toronto J-Film Pow Wow.

Architecture of Blurred Borders: Poland’s Shanghai Pavilion via...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:34:14 -0500

Architecture of Blurred Borders: Poland’s Shanghai Pavilion via Blueprint UK.

Hugo Pratt, genius. Via Comic Historietas, Tebeos.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:19:11 -0500

Hugo Pratt, genius. Via Comic Historietas, Tebeos.

“A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:44:40 -0500

“A new agrarian revolution has occured in China, but only in the virtual worlds of social games. Social farm games now dominate all major Chinese social networking sites — RenRen (formerly Xiaonei), Kaixin001, 51.com, and QQ’s QZone. The May launch and 2H 2009 adoption of QQ Farm — a version of China’s already popular Happy Farm game built to run on Tencent’s estimated 228 million active-user QZone platform — may very well have transformed China into the leading country of online farmers.”

via China’s growing addiction: online farming games | VentureBeat

"I think many gamers would rather take a beating if they think that they are accomplishing something,..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:36:19 -0500

“I think many gamers would rather take a beating if they think that they are accomplishing something, then have some pointless fun. That’s a real shame because, lets be clear, you don’t accomplish anything when you play games. There is nothing wrong with that, we don’t have to accomplish things all the time, it should be OK to just have fun every now and then. That’s why I’m not so sure I’m OK with is trying to fooling you in to thinking you did accomplish something when you played my game.”

- “I like your dress, its too bad you have fat legs” via Quelsolaar.

“This supermarket is the real application of the oblique...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:11:01 -0500

“This supermarket is the real application of the oblique function theories worked out by the architect Claude Parent. By protecting it we safeguard one of the most significant works of the modern and contemporary architecture. This work belongs to all of us”. The GEM supermarket is in Sens, France, and was built in 1970. Just as much of the contemporary anti-charming architecture, it runs the risk to be destroyed or tampered.”

via ROLU

“Dutch architects van Bergen Kolpa (with research...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:06:58 -0500

“Dutch architects van Bergen Kolpa (with research ecologists Alterra) propose a “Park Supermarket” for the Randstad, transforming polders — historically landscapes of food production, now pressured by both development and rising waters — into a park subdivided into new climate zones (”moderate, Mediterranean, and tropical”) and constructed hydrological conditions (basins for the cultivation of tilapia, or terraces for Pandan-en Risotto), accomodating the program and contents of the contemporary supermarket within an agrarian park.”

via park supermarket - mammoth // building nothing out of something

Sebastopol Residence by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:08 -0500

Sebastopol Residence by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects » CONTEMPORIST

Hand-Cut Street Maps of World Cities - information aesthetics

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:59:51 -0500

Hand-Cut Street Maps of World Cities - information aesthetics

Amazing post of Dutch covers via BibliOdyssey. Check it out,...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:06 -0500

Amazing post of Dutch covers via BibliOdyssey. Check it out, seriously.

Great Dan Gordon work today over at The Big Blog of Kids’...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:25 -0500

Great Dan Gordon work today over at The Big Blog of Kids’ Comics!

"The fence is long gone, and the no-man’s land where it stood now is part of Europe’s..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:47:19 -0500

“The fence is long gone, and the no-man’s land where it stood now is part of Europe’s biggest nature preserve. The once-deadly border area is alive with songbirds nesting in crumbling watchtowers, foxes hiding in weedy fortifications and animals not seen here for years, such as elk and lynx. But one species is boycotting the reunified animal kingdom: red deer. Herds of them roam both sides of the old NATO-Warsaw Pact border here but mysteriously turn around when they approach it. This although the deer alive today have no memory of the ominous fence.”

- Deep in the Forest, Bambi Remains The Cold War’s Last Prisoner - WSJ.com

“Michael Fotoohi doesn’t know how the result of his three...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:19:13 -0500

“Michael Fotoohi doesn’t know how the result of his three years spent world building will be received – or how it will evolve. But the co-founder and MD of developer Micazook says uncertainty is part of the programme. “We want to see how people behave,” Fotoohi explains. “We want to see how they claim property, build houses and attach data. It’s a learning curve.”

via A Brave New World | Edge Online.