Author: Marcus Trimble
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2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
Bruce Sterling: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic. “…a delusion that lasts for decades is not a delusion. It’s an institution. And these, our institutions, are what now fail us.” and “Insurance underlies the building and construction trades. If those rates skyrocket, that system must keel over. Once people lose faith in the institution…
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Closure
Closure. A flash puzzle game where the playing area is generated by a light source that you carry around.
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Lebbeus Woods on Alien3
I can’t resist posting a few images from a recent blog post by Lebbeus Woods on his short stint as conceptual artist on Alien3 when it was to be directed by Vincent Ward prior to David Fincher taking over. “The story of the Ward movie was radically different, though it deployed the same basic characters,…
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Superbowl Twitter Visualisation
An excellent visualisation of Twitter messages during the Superbowl. The ‘Emoticons’ and ‘People saying Go’ tabs are cute, while the ‘Talking about ads’ tab reveals the true purpose of the game.
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We ♥ I Lego NY
Christoph Niemann’s renderings of New York City — I Lego N.Y. — seem to have appeared in every blog the world over this morning. I am quite fond of the depiction of the Whitney and New Museums, which seem particularly suited to miniature lego models: And this unfolded facade elevation of the Flatiron Building: Many…
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Wormholes
Russian photographer Sergei Larenkov photomatches images from WWII era Stalingrad with present day photos, resulting in ghostly wormholes into the past.