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Link Love for May 19

by admin on May 19, 2010

After missing footage was found in Argentina, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has been restored and its narrative better understood (above). Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines. How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal. Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0. New Alarm Bells About [...]

The lost culture of New Island is 43,500 years old (above). Flaunt: Designing effective, compelling and memorable portfolios of creative work. Buy the book or PDF. The doormat, the jerk and the lizard brain. Livid Instruments’ new Builder is a line of DIY parts that make it easy for users to design their own USB [...]

Sync/Lost (above) is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. Philip K. Dick: A ‘plastic’ paradox. Sneak peek at an upcoming Philip K. Dick film, Radio Free Albemuth. Steven Frank of Panic Software fame, on the next phase of computing. Quieting the lizard brain. The “My” water bottle from Stelton. Researchers in [...]

A.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above) We are all mutants say scientists. Books to read now, from Seed magazine. Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking. Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO. Spirograph, spirographs, spirography. Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library [...]

Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video) Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined. Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y. The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone. The [...]

Link love 2009-04-24

by Jeffrey Melton on April 24, 2009

Babushka (above) is a modern, lit version of the classic Russian Doll. Turn Babushka on and off by pushing down on the top of the light, and watch it faze through its cycle revealing varied colors as it goes. Field is an open source framework that combines code and visual views for creating dynamic media [...]