Mar 05
It’s Official: Teens Are Bored With Facebook: It’s about time the Internet got an old-age home. Facebook seems as good a place as any to sequester geezers. The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic: About the teen girls on tumblr: The teen-girl Tumblr aesthetic differentiates itself from the prevalent nostalgia-induced reimagining of the archetypal lusty teenage dream. Rip-offs …
Nov 30
; This TVOntario show from the early 80s, You Can Write Anything, imparts some important lessons about writing. Like writers have beards and are dead. They’re also thieves. But you can use words to write better descriptions when you report them to the police. Words are fun.
Nov 23
On November 17 the New York Times published, How to Live Without Irony, an article by Christie Wampole. Rather than think about the piece –I’m bored of arguments and humans– I outsourced the job to a machine. I used my computer’s ‘find and replace’ function on certain key words in her essay. (Irony to humor, sincere to …
Oct 04
55 years ago, Russia put the first man-made satellite in space. Happy birthday, Sputnik.
Sep 16
This is the computer generated, Japanese popstar, Hatsune Miku. And these are kids reacting to the computer generated, Japanese popstar, Hatsune Miku.
Aug 07
click image for full size This infographic — created by Column Five for Akorn Entertainment — looks at the growingconcern over keeping the Internet as a free and open platform by visualizing the concepts from George Orwell’s book 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; then comparing them to the current Internet censorship techniques of the Iranian government, and the flood …
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
