What does play look like in the twenty first century?
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Why are we so obsessed with how children play? It is a rich topic certainly; the mind’s ear resonates with the innocent delight of shrieks and
On being the Other
There are many aspects of 'identity'.
It has always felt odd that people are allowed to 'identify' as all sorts of things as long as it doesn'
in defence of shame.
A letter to my American cousins in (partial) defence of the UK’s farcical, shambolic, yet honourable (‘ish) democratic humiliation (and how…
About intersections (not the road kind).
A smart friend once said to another smart friend: "when people talk about straight white men it’s essentializing and dehumanising and I don’t think it’s fair."
The friend replied.. "Well, exactly - that’s what happens to us all of the time; it’s just you guys aren’t used to it."
When Mashable asked me about transphobia.
In an elegant piece by Rachel Thompson for Mashable I was given the chance to think a little more deeply about my trans activism. The article is great. This is the less edited, less elegant, directors cut.
Why Diversity Can Be Nonsensical
Profile by Emily Gosling at AIGA
We probably don’t need to give Tea Uglow much of an introduction. She’s the creative director of Google Creative Lab in Sydney, after working
More posts: http://opinions.page
The WHY of ‘We Kiss the Screens’.
Another of our kooky new ‘digital’ books about old ideas via Editions at Play. The old idea is that we all see truth in our stories in many different ways. To recast
A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
A digital book owned with Blockchain? And how can you ‘own’ a book, if anyone can read it? Well…
[hey.. we invented NFTs... lol]
pBooks, eBooks, & dBooks: why we are hooked on books and bookness.
I wanted to write an essay about books: physical, electronic and the new kinds of digital books. It is a subject that preoccupies me…
The WHY of RSC's Midsummer Night's Dreaming [#Dream40]
Great storytellers have always experimented with new formats, from Homer to Orson Welles to James Cameron; from the birth of the soap opera to 3D cinema. The ambition behind the Royal Shakespeare
FutureBooks? - Smories & Stories
Books are not bits of paper - here are two wonderful projects from the internet that to me are the future of books.
Jonathan Harris's Cowbird.com that allows people
The Joy of Books
This wonderful short reminded me so much of a great animation I saw earlier this year... (Shouldn't have been surprised to find out it's the same team)
Book
More posts: http://editions.digital
Donna Tartt on “The writhing loathsomeness of the biological order”
I haven't enjoyed the Goldfinch - however this 321 words made the other 400k words feel worthwhile:
“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow
My unconsious sexism
Something happened at the very brilliant and wonderful Semi-Permanent Auckland last weekend.
I realised to my horror that I had only quoted me, 17 white men. So I called myself out on
Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid
a play with digital at the core at the 2016 Adelaide Fringe where we’ve teamed up with Sandpit to deliver theatre (again).
When an audience revolts
In Dec 2014, The Griffin Theatre and Google’s creative lab witnessed a one-day culmination of a conceptual project called 'The Next Stage’. The final output was a play written with
#dream40 the Epilogue [2013]
September 3, 2013 - 25 Things I learnt from Midsummer Night's Dreaming with the RSC
> No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no excuse.
- Theseus
Introduction
Reality in slices
Three different slit-scan artists.
A camera that takes a very thin photograph - and then another - and then places those photos next to each other. So you are looking at the
More posts: http://mean.reviews
"Show us the kids who have lost their arms and their legs. Show us the suffering."
The US campus protests over Gaza might be more about the generational media gap than raw belief. About TikTok vs CNN. About what people see, not what they think?
The power of mangluage.
This isn’t political. It’s lexical. In Time’s interview, Trump uses civilians instead of citizens in arguing that the US military could be employed against immigrants who aren’t ‘civilians’
Gasoline, meet fire.
It's now basically impossible to talk about Black Lives Matter. And that's a disaster. So.. social injustice. Constructs, Inequality. Labels.
Labels are good for identity, but bad for people. There's no power in labels. They don't ‘empower’, they ‘other’.
Emanuel School Speech Night.
It was a school speech. Like in a book about public schools from the 1950's and I got to play that person: the pompous self-important grandee. And it was joyous in so many ways.
One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder online
One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder onlineClaire is based in First Draft’s New York bureau and leads strategy and research.First DraftClaire Wardle
Important
When Is Speech Violence?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech — at least certain
More posts: http://normal.events
Any given weekday
Any given weekday the mean streets of inner-city life are populated by distinct demographic sub-genres that might correspond for didactic purposes with naturally occurring phenomena in physics:
1. Stochastic children, in school
How quantum superposition could unravel the ‘grandfather paradox’
A fun animation from aeon
Acoustic Barcodes
Acoustic Barcodes can use sound waves to create a binary ID on most surfaces
Acoustic Barcodes can use sound waves to create a binary ID on most surfacesThe Verge is about technology
Quantum Levitation video
. 5m views in one week means science is COOL.
And the music.... dude. the. music. rocks!
nb: I have no idea what is going on here...
SO - you can read about
Vi Hart - Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
Am having a massive Vi Hart moment...
She's like a one-woman Khan academy armed with attitude and felt-tips. (and channeling Thora Birch circa GhostWorld)
and she's not afraid
KNITTING :: Dr. Daina Taimina and her Amazing Crocheted Hyperbolic Spaces.
via theiff.org
In 1997 Cornell University mathematician Daina Taimina finally worked out how to make a physical model of hyperbolic space that allows us to feel, and to tactilely explore, the
More posts: http://punk.science
Mike Figgis on Timecode and Hotel
I love Mike Figgis. Especially Timecode [2000] and Hotel [2001] which had so much influence on the Cube Project that we did in 2016.
Revolution. 3 projects to change the world.
I'm really lucky. I get to work with some of the most brilliant people and ideas.
Sometimes they are just good ideas. Sometimes they are just marketing. And sometimes they
Alison Gopnik at TED: What do babies think?
I think this was a brilliant talk... and the book was fabulous. Completely opened my head up:
The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us A…For most of us, having
'Simple Harmonic Motion' @ Roundhouse
Watch this video by Memo Akten:
It is probably what my mother would describe as "plinky plonky" music - but it is fascinating - and there is a brilliant blog
Christian Laesser - SMS to Paper Airplanes
SMS to Paper AirplanesA data visualization about of a long distance relationship through the form of paper airplanes.Christian LaesserChristian Laesser
Used texts with his girlfirend to create a visual or audio
Jordi Parra's Spotify "radio"
Sweet!! Spotify player using RFID tags as physical objects to store Spotify playlists that the "radio" can then play... is Jordi Parra’s degree project.
Final pictures and display testsTomorrow
More posts: http://sofucking.ninja
Python Cheat Sheets for Neural Networks & Machine Learning from 2016
I love history. And when I first picked up this document it didn't feel like history [in 2017] it felt like something from space. I laughed out loud. (Because we
Live Twitter Feeds Into Powerpoint [2009]
Twitter plugins for PPT slides so you can have a slide with a live feed of twitter action as you present....
OMG - can you even imagine the horror?
And, at the
In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History
In just 4 hours, Google’s AI mastered all the chess knowledge in historyThis system didn’t even have to watch humans to learn how to play.FuturismScience Alert
"Chess isn&
Analytics in Real Life.
Playing up to our common failings online. Anything you recognise? Advanced Search?
I have moved to plus...
I am spending 2012 experimenting with Google Plus.
You can find my Plus Page here: http://tomux.me
It's pretty good. Frustrating occasionally but on the whole I like it.
Microsoft - The Kinect Effect
elegant nod to the power of a good hack. Wonderful video.
Pretty bizarre to hear The Pixies in a Microsoft Ad though... I mean, these are the people that gave us Songsmith
More posts: http://early.computer
Happiness rituals
New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy - Barking Up The Wrong TreeThere’s a lot of stuff about happiness on the internet, but what do neuroscientists say can
Can We Quantify Machine Consciousness?
Artificial intelligence might endow some computers with self-awareness. Here’s how we’d know
https://spectrum.ieee.org/can-we-quantify-machine-consciousness
Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. - The New York Times
Artificial Intelligence is colossally hyped these days, but the dirty little secret is that it still has a long, long way to go. Sure, A.I. systems have mastered an array of
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never UnderstandArtificial intelligence is making the limits of human knowledge painfully obvious.WIREDCondé Nast
What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon Essays
What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot) | Aeon EssaysHow much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns outAeon Magazine
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference | Aeon Essays
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of inference | Aeon EssaysThe special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futuresAeon Magazine
The long wait.
The UK's review into the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria may be well intended. The consequences are going to be awful.
Making the personal mechanical.
I'm finding myself defending opinions where I try to explain why objecting to the #fraud era is as much a waste of time as welcoming it. It's tiresome.
Happy Trans Visibility Day. Also, can we stop doing this now?
No one should be celebrating trans woman today. Celebrate us as women, celebrate our achievements, everyday, any day but not one day dedicated to making the atypical quality of our foetal gestation visible.
This day is the worst.
Why does Twitter view transphobia as free speech?
Frustrated shouting into a bleak void..
Machine Learning and Human Bias - according to Google.
For those paying attention - the "shoe story" had been a staple of my talks for at least a couple of years by this point - so I took some
Ford and the key to the future.
So Ford have a key that lets you unlock your car based on your proximity. Which is cool. And (it appears) their marketing agency decided to promote this by applying the same
More posts: http://throw.rocks
Big Picture: Music
http://research.google.com/bigpicture/music/
I really love this visualisation of music history by the research.google team - they allow you to see the progress of genres of music in
Multi-Touch Finger Paintings
Evan Roth - touchscreen smears as portraits of iphone apps.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90186030/artist-turns-iphone-swipes-into-fancy-finger-paintings
This is a collection of smears from when you use an app presented as a portrait
MIT - Ambient Furniture
Some ideas from MIT's tangible media team (favourite team name ever) on future furniture.
http://postscapes.com/ambient-furniture-from-mit
Calligrams :: Word as Image.
The awesome Ji Lee made a book, and a video of the book, about calligrams,
Buy it on Amazon: http://goo.gl/TS26X
We miss you Ji!
Calligraphic HTML5 music video meets platform game
www.androp.jp/bell/
It's another music video in a browser - this time taking your message or tweet, transforming it into a calligram and allowing you to guide it
Composite - an app for 'collecting' and collaging images.
THis is really kind of cool. Or it should be. Although it looks like it needs to be incredibly simple and clean and comes across as rather complicated and ornate in the
High Altitude: Stock market landscapes
Michael NajjarMichael Najjar
The series visualizes the development of the leading global stock market indices over the past 20-30 years. The virtual data mountains of the stock market charts are resublimated in
The Art of Clean Up :: OCD aesthetics
via jeanniejeannie.com
For lots of images and commentary: http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2011/08/29/the-art-of-clean-up-sorting-and-stacking-everyday-objects/#
A new book with fantastic imagery by artists Ursus Wehrli -- The Art of Clean
moviebarcodes
AUDITION / ÔDISHON (2000) via moviebarcode.tumblr.com
Movie Barcode. What happens if you take one thing (a film) and convert it into the form of another thing (barcode). How much cultural interpretation
Satellite Collections - Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell trawls Google Earth and then captures and cuts out urban elements to make really interesting works.
jenny odell • satellite collectionsparking lots, swimming pools, silos and more
104 Airplanes via jennyodell.
James Bridle - Rorschmaps
Happen to know James Bridle who is a fabulous thinker and designer and writer in London.
He hangs about with those Berg boys as well.
So not really that surprised to discover
0to255.com a simple colour palette builder in hex
A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
More posts: http://uh.cool
