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Bullshit links
- deathtobullshit.com by Brad Frost (via @futurefabric)
- The Triumph of Bullshit by T.S. Eliot
- Sway, a design magazine/blog/podcast that tends to get to the point
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Using Metadata to find Paul Revere by Kieran Healy. See also Data Visualisation in Sociology, coauthored by Healy and James Moody.
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Surfing w/ coffee #2. Order of exploration:
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Google search “web worker” paper.js jerky (trying to sort out animation+ajax issues) → Paper.js issue #634 “Allow using paperjs without canvas” → Paper.js issue #561 “Add Font and Glyph types from plumin.js” (↓B) → Plumin.js (↓C) → Louis-Rémi Babé @louis_remi → Surge, static web publishing
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Opentype.js → Frederik De Bleser (↓D) → NodeBox, tools for generative design
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Yannick Mathey @_____________y → USA, limited edition typographic print
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Overtone, collaborative programmable music → Meta-eX, “Live coding. Live synths. Live music.”
See previous surf sesh.
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Discussion regarding Canvas vs SVG
Running in to problems with SVG animation, will probably have to rethink it with canvas. See discussion at link above for reference. Ah well, wanted to do more with canvas anyways.
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Touch kiosk ref: Walker Media Lab post about creating their multitouch kiosks; The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection Wall
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On Dead Writer Besties, by Alexandra Molotkow from The Hairpin
It’s like realizing that there’s a garden when you’d only been shown one rose.
See also: Hazlitt Magazine, “a home for writers and artists to tell the best stories about the things that matter most to them” (Molotkow is a senior editor); The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (free on Google Books and Girlebooks); Those Who Write for Immortality by Heather Jackson (available via Yale University Press).
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Read “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace (via Some weekend reading post on kottke.org).
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Surfing w/ coffee. Order of exploration:
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Google image search “knyttan blanket scarves” → Today and Tomorrow post about a scarf (↓B) → Nicolas Sassoon (↓C) → Computers Club → Alexandria McCrosky → Alexandria McCrosky in i want you magazine (↓D) → Google image search Alexandria McCrosky
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Emoji Portraits by Yung Jake on Today and Tomorrow
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artnet interview w/ Sassoon → Opening Times – Digital Art Comissions (↓E) → How Do We Write When We Write Online by Orit Gat → Gat’s review of The People’s Platform, “Was the internet intended for you?” (↓F) → The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
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Jordan Tate → Trevor Paglen exhibition at Altman Siegel → Trevor Paglen → Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror)
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“You Alright” by Nicholas O’Brien → “In The Hollow of the Valley” by Nicholas O’Brien → NewHive
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Customisable merino wool scarves, blanket scarves are 190×80cm. Looks like they occasionally collaborate with Studio Moniker.
EDIT 23/5/15 – A few more links