The Artist is Present is a Sierra-style literal recreation of the famed performance piece of the same name by artist Marina Abramovic at the Museum of … [Read more...]
The Museum of Obsolete Objects
The MOOO makes an interesting use of YouTube, in order to provide informations on our immediate past. A walk down memory lane on things replaced by … [Read more...]
NASA’s 1976 identity guidelines
Four pages of an original copy of NASA’s identity guidelines, from when they re-branded to the ‘worm’ logo, dated January … [Read more...]
Bookmarks: dpr-barcelona | beyond books | between art, science and architecture
Thanks to the friends at DPR Barcelona for thrice-linking Socks on their Facebook page, during our hiatus while visiting Venice's Art Biennale. We'll … [Read more...]
Randomly collected images and diagrams about “Life, a User’s Manual”, George Perec
George Perec, La Vie, Mode d'Emploi. Read more on Ivar Hagendoorn's article "Georges Perec: Life a User's … [Read more...]
Random magazine: the book!
New-media art Random magazine quits, but it is still online. Ten years of publications have been condensed in a book you can buy or freely … [Read more...]
DON’T DO THIS AT WORK – 25
Well here you got it all: Pica-Pic collection of fully playable 1970's and 1980's handheld games. Via: Things Magazine. … [Read more...]
Criterion package for 1991 Richard Linklater’s Slacker
"...Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of … [Read more...]
Reminds Me of Remind Me
Reminds you of what? Remind me, of course! It's Brandt Brauer Frick's music video for "Caffeine", by Patricia Luna and Danae … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 24
There are movies. There are objects in movies. There are games which let you guess which classic movie a particular object is from, among more than 70 … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 23
Waiting for Godot, the Video Game. As good as it gets. In all its 8-bit glory. Via: Phonkmeister … [Read more...]
Copy paste character
Copypastecharacter.com, a website which does exactly what is supposed to. … [Read more...]
The pain of everyday life
A Gordan Savicic's "old" (2007) work "Costraint City - The Pain of Everyday life", which I recently discovered, thanks to Régine Debatty. An … [Read more...]
The fine art of goofing off by Henry Jacobs
In 1972 television and audio pioneer Henry Jacobs, among whose works you can file the invention of surround sound (Vortex: Experiments in Sound and … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 22
Isle of tune is a a musical sequencer whose chords, notes and drum blips are represented by little roads with houses, trees, streetlights. As the … [Read more...]
James Whitney, pioneer of visual music
Early (50's to 70's) attempts of illustrating music with motion patterns, caleidoscopic textures, dots and grids: James Whitney, visual composer, … [Read more...]
And other fake science
The desk – L studio
An interesting documentary about creative people and their nearest workplaces. In this first episode "The Desk," we talked to experts Alice … [Read more...]
Back from Ars Electronica / Linz: “It’s too late to be a pessimist” *
We are back from Linz and so, so impressed. Despite still being overwhelmed by ideas, imagination and people from this edition of the world's most … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 21
Don't think this as another puzzle game with animals. Do think this as an hard struggle for life in a two dimensional world of complex … [Read more...]
Internet timeline
Via: MBA Online … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 20
Pulsus is an eye pleasing online game developed in Flash, Actionscript and Pure Data by Anthony Mattox, taking inspiration by his previous work with … [Read more...]
Obrist interviews Maeda
On Klat > interviews. More on John Maeda. … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 19
Too proud to have resurrected even the "Don't do this at work" game section of Socks. Thanks to Roberto, who's suggested this beautiful online game … [Read more...]
