Script Me, Baby
Building in Second Life. Looking for an LSL script that can give an object, change a texture, play a sound, or similarly simple action? It seems easy enough to look these things up in the LSL wiki, even for those…
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
Creatively Distracted
Christen Booth
SynthPond
SynthPond is a sort of audio exploration toy app for iPhone by Zach Gage. It really brings to mind a very complex and highly customizable windchime. I’m not quite sure how else to describe it without getting into a more…
Women’s Olympic Volleyball 1964
I’ve been cruising the internet for video of women’s volleyball and came across this wonderful synopsis of the Japan vs. USSR game during the ’64 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The editing is quite good, and wonderfully conveys the tension of…
Siftables
What an amazing mechanism to interact with information. I really like the math, language and storytelling concepts. More on the project on the Siftables web site.
Sita Sings the Blues
If you haven’t had the pleasure of watching Sita Sings the Blues, then I recommend it highly. It is animated as beautifully as 10,000 lotuses. More importantly, it is being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license by…
Future Virtual Worlds
The concepts for the building tools in the virtual world featured in this film short are quite ingenious.
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
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What NOT to Eat
Yesterday I started following the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Information Office on Twitter (yes, they are Twittering). It’s a good thing too because there have been an alarming number of foods recalled across the country since yesterday afternoon. I…
KERN for Fun
I’m really digging KERN, a game for the iPhone. Despite the rather mundane sounding premise, it is wholly addictive if you’re one of those detail oriented designy types (with a few minutes to kill and an iPhone, of course). Elegant…
Hello, My Name is Mr. Glasses. I’m an Architect
Spotted on A Daily Dose of Architecture as I was surfing through my Google Reader subscriptions, Mr. Glasses is a series by Mitch Magee that tells the story of the tortured ideals of a modernist architect. Dry. Funny. I couldn’t…
Daniel Tammet’s Reflections on Being an Autistic Savant
Scientific American has a wonderfully intriguing interview with autistic savant, Daniel Tammet available on their site. I’m so fascinated by his descriptions of his own mental processes that I can’t wait to read his books – starting with Born on…