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Fantastic auction of mid-century modern stuff, starting shortly....

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:42:22 -0500

Fantastic auction of mid-century modern stuff, starting shortly. Pictured: sofa by George Nelson.

Cooking Mama, the Arcade Game. Via Arcade Heroes, who has lots...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:29:00 -0500

Cooking Mama, the Arcade Game. Via Arcade Heroes, who has lots of other video (with shaky audio) from IAAPA 2009.

“one philosophy that I try to abide by in game-design is...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:40:00 -0500

“one philosophy that I try to abide by in game-design is that there are no bad players–only bad designers. If a player feels stupid, cheated, or frustrated, it shouldn’t be the player’s fault. It should be the designer’s responsibility to prevent the player from feeling this way, and to do this, there exists the much beloved activity of play-testing. There are many problems that arise out of a good play-test, but I’m going to focus on the aforementioned one of “visual direction,” to guide the player a specific way.”

via Visually Directing the Player » A Hardy Developer’s Journal by Joshua Nuernberger, developer of Boryokudan Rue a 2010 IGF Student Award entrant.

Bailter Ray, an Unreal Tournament mod submitted for the 2010...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:30:01 -0500

Bailter Ray, an Unreal Tournament mod submitted for the 2010 IGF Student Competition.

Attack of the 50 foot Robot, 2010 IGF Student Award Entrant.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:57:09 -0500

Attack of the 50 foot Robot, 2010 IGF Student Award Entrant.

Curbed NY: The Best New Buildings of the Decade! c/o Coolboom.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:42:14 -0500

Curbed NY: The Best New Buildings of the Decade! c/o Coolboom.

Inhabitat » Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St....

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:22:03 -0500

Inhabitat » Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St. Louis Zoo

“Architects: read, study and learn from Ballard’s writing....

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:00 -0500

“Architects: read, study and learn from Ballard’s writing. Because it should not be the job of the architect to build worlds and indulge the luxury of allowing them to fail at our expense, but that of the writer, the constructor of virtual worlds that live, breathe and, indeed, die in virtuality so that we, in the actual, do not have to expire to prove a point. Only then should we overlay the virtual with the actual to create a stereoscopic representation, a truly interstitial process that places the user at the centre with the power to inform, direct, stage and manage the terms of his or her movement through time and space, perhaps nudging us one step closer to a read/write city in which we are free to ‘tune’ the built environment, free to contribute to the conditions of our cohabitation.”

via Ballardian » Stereoscopic Urbanism: JG Ballard and the Built Environment.

Sometimes I Wish I Lived in New York: Design USA: Contemporary...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:35:04 -0500

Sometimes I Wish I Lived in New York: Design USA: Contemporary Innovation On view October 16, 2009–April 4, 2010.

via Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

MUJI & LEGO - today and tomorrow

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:48:59 -0500

MUJI & LEGO - today and tomorrow

3D Dot Game Heroes, May 2010 N.A. Sold, American!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:42:00 -0500

3D Dot Game Heroes, May 2010 N.A. Sold, American!

BLDGBLOG: Photographs by Richard Mosse.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:36:43 -0500

BLDGBLOG: Photographs by Richard Mosse.

12 Hot New Eurocomics for 2010: via Paul Gravett.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:13:00 -0500

12 Hot New Eurocomics for 2010: via Paul Gravett.

ArtJournal - Downloading Optimism, seen first at Journalista!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:11:15 -0500

ArtJournal - Downloading Optimism, seen first at Journalista!

“In A Dandy’s Gesture (1977), one of Farber’s two...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:35:00 -0500

“In A Dandy’s Gesture (1977), one of Farber’s two “auteur” paintings focused on Hawks, he glances at––often through toys and miniatures––images from the director’s films: a plane crashed into a chocolate candy mountain, from Only Angels Have Wings; a tiger, from Bringing Up Baby; an elephant, from Hatari; a boat, from To Have and Have Not; and newspaper layout pages, from His Girl Friday, with gangster Johnny Lovo (from Scarface) in the headline. But following the train careering down the track on the left of the painting to a notebook, we discover Farber slyly inserting himself into the painting. A little reporter’s pad quotes his own notes for his film class on Hawks at UC San Diego. What might be the lines connecting a director at work in the Hollywood studio system and a painter at work in a university––here, cramming for a lecture; or, perhaps, not cramming, but painting A Dandy’s Gesture instead? Who is the gestural dandy of the title? Howard Hawks? Or Farber himself?”

via Farber on Film: Introduction, Part 4 (After Negative Space).

architechnophilia: on the boards: Łódź Public Library

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:33:03 -0500

architechnophilia: on the boards: Łódź Public Library

Mechani-Kong and Dr. Who’s secret pyramid base ::: Pink Tentacle

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:30:03 -0500

Mechani-Kong and Dr. Who’s secret pyramid base ::: Pink Tentacle

“Watching “The Jetsons” as a kid, I thought that the idea...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:16:59 -0500

“Watching “The Jetsons” as a kid, I thought that the idea of having helper robots around the house seemed plausible, but the specifics of how this would happen never seemed to make sense. Other than the way she talked, it was hard to see how Rosie the Robot was different from the other characters. But smart interactive robots do not need to look like our mechanical humanoid cousins. Interactive architecture—a burgeoning collaboration across diverse scientific and design communities—has ushered in advancements in manufacturing, behavioral logic, and biologically inspired materials and introduced new ways robotics can enhance our lives. Our spaces and environments—buildings themselves—are becoming the robots, Rosie is becoming the architecture around us, and unprecedented levels of responsiveness and environmental interactivity are becoming a reality.”

Our Adapting Future, via Seed Magazine.

CÓMIC, historietas, tebeos…: FRANK ROBBINS: LAS AVENTURAS...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:12:50 -0500

CÓMIC, historietas, tebeos…: FRANK ROBBINS: LAS AVENTURAS DOMINICALES DE JOHNNY HAZARD.

Volumetric heat diffusion skinning - Wolfire Blog

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:06:16 -0500

Volumetric heat diffusion skinning - Wolfire Blog