Apr
5th
Fri
5th
2013
Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.
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Apr
1st
Mon
1st
2013
Charlie Haughey was drafted into the US Army in October of 1967. He was 24, and had been in college in Michigan before running out of money and quitting school to work in a sheet metal factory. The draft notice meant that he was to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam, designated a rifleman, the basic field position in the Army. After 63 days in Vietnam, he was made a photographer, shooting photographs for the Army and US newspapers…He shot nearly 2,000 images between March 1968 and May 1969 before taking the negatives home. And there they sat, out of sight, but not out of mind, for 45 years, until a chance meeting brought them out of dormancy and into a digital scanner. At first, it was very difficult for Haughey to view the images and talk about them, especially not knowing the fates of many of the subjects of his photos.
When the digitization hit 1,700 negative scans, Haughey put them on a slideshow and viewed them all at once, and didn’t sleep for three days after.
A soldier’s eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam - The Big Picture - Boston.com
did you know how hilarious the patch notes to the sims are
- A faint line is no longer visible on the heads of babies.
- Fish are no longer duplicated in the fridge when moving homes.
- Sims can no longer “Try for Baby” with the Grim Reaper.
- Sims who are on fire will no longer be forced to attend graduation before they can put themselves out.
- Children and Teens can no longer die from motive failure while on a Time Out.
- Pianists will no longer continue playing pianos that have been detonated.
- Sims will no longer receive a wish to “Skinny Dip” with Mummies.
- Pregnant Sims can no longer “Brawl.”
- Sims can no longer WooHoo in the Elevator with a Sim who is on a different floor.
- Fixed an issue that caused Sims to leave their Toddler inside a bar at closing time.
- The Grim Reaper will no longer be prevented from reaping souls due to band affiliation.
- Kleptomaniac Sims can no longer steal Subway stations from lots.
- Fixed a tuning issue so that Sims now vomit at acceptable levels.
- The magical laundry bear Abracadabra will no longer block Sims from moving after disappearing
- Tourist NPCs can now be impregnated.
Modeling & simulation is hard because Reality is messy.
(Source: thesims3.com, via notgames)
Mar
31st
Sun
31st
2013
…days of beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers…
(via Lawrence Harley)
Mar
30th
Sat
30th
2013
BETWEEN THE MOON AND THE SEA 2010
Wooden dock, reflecting pool, and artificial moon, Dimensions Variable.
This work creates an environment for viewing the reflection of an artificial moon.
Installation at Frac des Pays de la Loire.
Mar
29th
Fri
29th
2013
What we didn’t know was that there were other, more distant planets that we could not even see. And those planets couldn’t see us, either.
In 12th grade, my friend Ryan and I were finalists for the Silver State Scholars, a competition to identify the “Top 100” seniors in Nevada. The finalists were flown to Lake Tahoe for two days of interviews. On the plane, Ryan and I met a boy from Las Vegas. Looking to size up the competition, we asked what high school he went to. He said a name we didn’t recognize and added, “It’s a magnet school.” Ryan asked what a magnet school was, and spent the remaining hour incredulously demanding a detailed account of the young man’s educational history: his time abroad, his after-school robotics club, his tutors, his college prep courses.
All educations, we realized then, are not created equal. For Ryan and me, of Pahrump, Nev., just an hour from the city, the Vegas boy was a citizen of a planet we would never visit.
Elite Colleges Are as Foreign as Mars - NYTimes.com
True story: When I applied to Dartmouth, all I knew about the school was the BASIC programming language was invented there, and I had noticed the dartmouth.edu domain at the end of several mailing lists I participated in.
When I took a campus tour, the guide joked that the university’s internal email system was so popular, students only used their post office boxes to get their J.Crew catalogues. Weird, I thought. No one I know shops at J.Crew.
(I also toured Penn, but declined to apply because I thought it was a branch of Penn State.)
Mar
24th
Sun
24th
2013
-LUNAR
2011 11’4” x 16’8” x 11’6”
This sculpture harnesses the power of the sun, gathering energy during the day and releasing that energy as moonlight after dark. The exact temperature of the light emitted from this work is based on measurements taken during the July 2011 full moon. Installation at Storm King Art Center, NY. Photography by Jerry L. Thompson.
Mar
19th
Tue
19th
2013
David Byrne made a doll of himself for the artwork of his 1997 album Feelings, and he told a 21-year-old me about it in an interview that year, while I sat with him backstage at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre, starstruck blind and watching him eat soup:
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, “I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.” First, I tried doing it as a computer thing where I went and had my whole head scanned with a laser. It went all around my head— it was kind of like having a CAT scan— and it takes about ten seconds for the laser to go around. It’s really slow. But then you can look at a monitor and there’s a wire frame of your head on it. The guys there encouraged me to try some other expressions other than just a straight, blank look.
Somewhere along the line, it was discovered that it was going to be too hard to make the wire frame not look like a computer rendering. I wanted it to really look like a doll and not like a computer thing. So we kind of scrapped that whole thing and went to a guy in Brooklyn who actually makes plastic models of giant shaving razors and giant chocolate bars… giant pieces of asparagus for commercials. It’s a great studio. Everything looks 100% real. It’s kind of uncanny. I just had some mugshots done. He did one doll and four heads.
(Previously.)
Mar
18th
Mon
18th
2013
…it suddenly dawned on me that actually, for whatever fucking reason, people… were prepared to tolerate us expressing ourselves.
I know that sounds really stupid, really basic. But since we signed on the dotted line, it’s not been like that, you know? We’ve never genuinely felt 100 percent that we were allowed to express ourselves in a way that we saw fit.
And then suddenly, there it was, as well as that feeling that we won’t be blackmailed into being that again… because you give up all the other things in your life, and then to have that given up for you as well…
Blue (One Second Brainwave Transmitted to the Star Rigel), 1993
Dimensions variable, Mixed mediums
Microwave signal at 44mHz, 1 inch x 186,000 miles; brainwave generated while looking at Hawaii Five-O, transmitted at the speed of light to the bluest star in the night sky, where it will arrive in about 960 years.
(Previously / previously.)
Mar
7th
Thu
7th
2013
Who wants to be PERFECT?
Loop some drums in Garageband - auto color balance your photos - PERFECT!
Perfection is professional - transparent - inhuman. Perfect means GOOD but it’s never meant WORTHWHILE.
Perfect is EASY - IMPERFECT is the new desirable!
We live in a time of ragged edges. Welcome our new aesthetic overlords!
If you need me I will be listening to tape hiss in my room.
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