Amazone: http://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Communication-Foreign-Agents/dp/0936756365
PDF (extract): http://iris.nyit.edu/~rcody/Thesis/Readings/The%20Ecstacy%20of%20Communication%20-%20Baudrillard.pdf
mercredi 16 février 2011
The ecstasy of communication – Baudrillard
Amazone: http://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Communication-Foreign-Agents/dp/0936756365
PDF (extract): http://iris.nyit.edu/~rcody/Thesis/Readings/The%20Ecstacy%20of%20Communication%20-%20Baudrillard.pdf
l33t 5p34k – LeetSpeak
Leet, also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet. It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t
More : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Molehill 3D Api – Flash
“"Molehill" is the code name for a new set of low-level, GPU-accelerated 3D APIs that will enable advanced 3D experiences across screens through the Adobe® Flash® Platform runtimes. These new low-level APIs will provide advanced 3D and 3D engine developers the flexibility to leverage GPU hardware acceleration for significant performance gains. Today, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, renders thousands of non z-buffered triangles at approximately 30 Hz. With the new 3D APIs, developers can expect hundreds of thousands of z-buffered triangles to be rendered at HD resolution in full screen at around 60 Hz. Using the new 3D APIs in Flash Player and AIR will make it possible to deliver sophisticated 3D experiences across almost every computer and device connected to the Internet.
The 3D capabilities enabled by the new APIs will also be available to the broader developer community through popular ActionScript® 3D frameworks, such as Alternativa3D, Away3d, Flare3D, Sophie3D or Yogurt3D.”
More (including video demo): http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash/molehill/
Low-Cost Video Chat Robot
Another example of telepresence robot (kind of skype robot)
By jcl5m (on youtube) who has an interesting channel to follow up: http://www.youtube.com/user/jcl5m
Sparky Jr - Make a DIY Mobile Videochat Telepresence Robot
Weird and interesting DIY artefact of telepresence
Typographic foundries – memo
A bunch of famous and less famous typographic foundries just for the record.
http://www.fontfont.com
http://www.lucasfonts.com/
http://www.optimo.ch/home.php
Festival Riam – aix en provence
http://riam.info/08/ – Festival in Aix en provence
Directly copy pasted from: http://riam.info/08/a-propos/
It is undeniable that performance art as an artistic expression is experiencing an important renaissance at this turn of the decade. Newly asked questions demand various new forms of artwork. It is this fertile moment that asks for some reflection and takes us directly to the 2011 “Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimédia” edition. The encounter has no intention of revisiting history neither of the “happening” nor of performance art in general, but to explore the outline of this ongoing transformation.
This year’s festival likes to think of the potential performances might have in art; how it could reinvent objects, instruments or scenic devices in order to bring the artwork meanings into motion. Nowadays the idea of performance crosses more or less all domains of the creation of art, going from music to paintings. There is a sense of mergence between art and everyday life, therefore performance art dares to cross borders by using new contexts, both spatial and intellectual. Instead of having a “moment of truth” this reflection is more about pointing out the combination of norms and rules that define our society. This in turn is illustrated through the artistic reconstruction of situations that restage and test our reality.
Also auditory art in its performative dimensions plays an important role in this year’s festival. There is a struggle to question the spatialization and the habit of listening to sound, while encouraging personal reflection on voices and acoustics, across all environments, whether vocal performances or contemporary poetry.
This year’s artistic, poetic and acoustic selections of the RIAM use not only stages but also other kind of exhibition places as their playground. Presenters don’t hesitate to integrate theatrical elements, question the functionality of space and to simply use them as backdrop, to do role-plays. Their proper identities are reinvented and artistic boundaries are redefined
ushahidi.com – open source data visualization
http://www.ushahidi.com/
We are a non-profit tech company that develops free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.
As a user says:
We wanted to create a platform that allowed geospatial visualization of where major groups/resources exist on [human] trafficking, as well as overlay information about latest cases, news on trafficking and risk areas. Ushahidi allows us to do just that.
dimanche 30 janvier 2011
|| ThePlaylist OfTheDay ||
|| ThePlaylist OfTheDay ||
Contains extract of: sweetness, calm, jazz, groove, sun
• Dimanche matin – Reveil
La playlist qui fait entrer le soleil rasant dans ton salon et chatouille doucement tes pieds pour qu'ils sortent un jour du lit :)
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