November 2007

The Archives

UI
Grand Un-unification Theory
11.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

In Bolter and Grusin’s book Remediation: Understanding New Media, in a chapter devoted partially to The Logic of Hypermediacy, they state that graphical user interfaces are unique in their demand to not become transparent. Unlike a perspective painting or three-dimensional computer graphic, this windowed interface does not attempt to unify the space around any one point of view. [...]
Amusement
Lookie here! A picture book from Lookybook.
11.26.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

The Other Side written and illustrated by Istvan Banyai
Location
Blog in the Bog
11.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

This is a photo of the Ocean Spray Cranberry Bog guy (the funny one, vs. the old one). He’s currently on a tour of the United States promoting Thanksgiving or something. He made me crawl in there with him to take this photo, thus the smile. Go see him if he comes to your town and give [...]
Location
Ahoy Chitown
11.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ll be in Chicago until Saturday, working a little, playing a little more – and on Thursday: listening to the musical stylings of Caribou and Battles. If I’m in your hood give me a shout.