Archive: September 1st, 2013
Shinseungback Kimyonghun: Portrait
Beautiful amalgamations of film characters:
A custom software detects faces from every 24 frames of a movie, and creates an average face of all found faces. The composite image reflects the centric figure(s) and the visual mood of the movie.
Omni Reboot | THE LANDLINE
Omni returns with a Bruce Sterling short story that marries alternative history and satire with a dash of digital preservation.
Go ahead, just wait a year, or two years, or maybe five years. Then try to find this, later. There will be no sign of this website, because it’s just made of pixels. No remains of the machine that you read it with, either.
-… ..- .-. .-. .. – — .— ..- … – .. -.-. . | Burrito Justice
A little sojourn around the Victorian internet.
Inspiring Tech Quotes
Some of the more idiotic, harmful, stupid and nasty things said by the thought leaders of Silicon Valley.
Planetary: collecting and preserving code as a living object | Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York
Aaron Straup-Cope and Seb Chan on the challenges of adding (and keeping) code to the Cooper-Hewitt collection:
The distinction between preservation and access is increasingly blurred. This is especially true for digital objects.