February 2012
53 posts
“Code can speak literature, logic, maths. It contains different layers of...”
– code {poems}
“Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to...”
– Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writers - GalleyCat (via new-aesthetic)
Good Listeners | visualizing the (forced)... →
Good Listeners is a browser plugin that exposes the secret ways in which our browsing habits are shared with and mined by 3rd party web trackers (like Google Analytics and Facebook “Like”) without our consent or knowledge. Whenever a site exposes the visitor’s data to a third party service a confessional booth window is opened and the priest in the window offers words of...
“Object elicitation can provide insights into the functional relationships...”
– Evocative Objects: the case for object elicitation: Menticulture Blog
“One objection to world-as-narrative (even before we get to what we mean by...”
– World / Text: Menticulture Blog
WatchWoW (by aram bartholl)
Zen-Like Artist Creates Intricate Pencil Tip... →
WatchIn Your Voice (by Machine Libertine)
The Curious Assemblages of J. Shea | Colossal →
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops I-IV →
It’s impossible: no one could create a script this contrived. Yet, apparently, it happened. William Basinski’s four-disk epic, The Disintegration Loops, was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. These loops held some personal significance to Basinski, a significance he only touches on in the liner notes and we can only guess at. Originally, he just wanted to...
“Every world is a sort of disclosing, a way of rendering itself intelligible....”
– Clearing: Menticulture Blog
Farming the Unconscious - we make money not art →
As long as their brain stem is intact, the homeostatic functions of the chicken will continue to operate. By removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken, its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.
The feet will also be removed so the body of the chicken can be packed together in a dense volume.
Food, water and air are...
Gorgeous Macro Photographs of Snowflakes by... →
“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino (via stoweboyd)
“Users, it’s time to wise up. It’s not just about being open,...”
– Scripting News: Glad I don’t use Path
World / Nowhere: Menticulture Blog →
The world is a whole one, continuous if uneven. This wholeness can’t very well be broken into parts without the kind of effort that pushes the parts out of joint, like cracking a rock to expose the fossil: what wonder to see the shell that has lurked for a million years bound up in the bonds of the rock! But also something is now over and done in that hammer blow, a deliberate stroke, over...
Warren Ellis » DARPA’s Half-Smart Robot Packhorse →
Louis Vuitton Fall 2011 →
new-aesthetic:
“There are objects, and space and time flow from them. So to move is not to float...”
– ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Walking, Stumbling, Falling
World: Menticulture Blog →
The world I mean is the one which allows me to say of myself or others, that we are worldly, or that we are men of the world, or that we know something of the way of the world. It is a world that has mood and colour, it has a certain underlying sort of flavour - a complexity below the many notes which is nevertheless its own. It is the sort of world that one could imagine being otherwise, if one...
DAILY SERVING » Here Be Dragons: Google Earth As... →
North Korea is a starving nation. It has been reported that in 2011, authorities reduced the daily caloric intake for each individual to 700, or one Venti Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino from Starbucks. The average official salary for workers is $2 per month. The country is wracked by poverty and oppression, but Google Earth provides scant acknowledgement of this. To the uninformed, the...
Scientists use brain activity analysis to... →
When the electrodes’ data was applied to a computational model, the computer was able to actually reproduce the sounds that had been heard - sort of. Although the noises made by the computer were somewhat garbled, they were close enough to the original words that the scientists were better able to identify those words than would be possible otherwise.
Computer Algorithm Used To Make Movie For Sundance... →
The film, titled “whiteonwhite:algorithnoir,” is centered on a geophysicist named Holz (played by Wood) who’s stuck in a gloomy, 1970’s-looking city operated by the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company. Distinct scenes such as wire tapped conversations or a job interview for Mr. Holz are (hopefully) woven together by distinct voiceovers and dialogues. When the scenes and audio are entered into...
Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com →
Also: Facebook is a ‘man in the middle’ attack
BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers →
“Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn’t face-to-face, but...”
– The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans - Ken Gaebler - Business - The Atlantic
“In the 1970s, a professor of communication studies at Northwestern University...”
– Facebook Is Using You - NYTimes.com
WatchFlight of the Fireflies – Trailer (by Woolly Robot)
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Transmediale 2K+12
Eliminate!: Menticulture Blog →
The fear lies in the elimination of meaning. There are eliminitavists out there. They stalk the land like stilt-walkers crossing fens, hunting, herding and eradicating fauna, extirpating significance, annihilating secrets, exterminating superstitions, banishing all magic, colour and purpose.
