Wired's Chris Kohler writes today about "Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's conviction that what consumers really wanted out of video games was simpler, more accessible entertainment -- not the photorealistic graphics and massive online worlds that the company's competitors were chasing," ...Read More
One of the greatest drummers, and musical explorers of our age died Monday of cancer at the age of 54. As one of the Sun City Girls, Charlie was the first drummer that I really got into watching. It sounds late-blooming ...Read More
"The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today." Some ...Read More
Here's a keynote speech I made October 27th at the Mobility 2006 conference at Rangsit University in Bangkok, Thailand. - - - - - - - I want to thank the organizers and Rangsit University for hosting us in such a nice ...Read More
User-submitted video art for the Museum of Modern Art's upcoming Residents show. View and vote for the top eleven submissions on YouTube. (via picturephoning.com) Read More
As an amateur photographer and a soon-to-be-published collaborator on a photobook, I have an interest in photos used on book covers. Professor Karl Baden of Boston College has assembled a collection fed by his interest in how photography is used ...Read More
The music is great, plus it features green and red images of people doing exciting things like jumping around! via Scorebaby Annex Read More
“We’re trying to start a death cult, and for that you really need a lot volunteers.†So explained the fresh-faced etoy spokesman Zai as he led a tour of new recruits through a container built to house the remains—both physical and ...Read More
A broadcast-to-mobile offering in Korea has been embraced by consumers to the tune of one million devices, according to this story in Digital World Tokyo. Of course whether anyone is actually watching is not said. It's easy to believe many are, ...Read More
At CommunicAsia, Masaaki Fukumoto, director of the biological signal-processing laboratory at NTT DoCoMo's multimedia laboratories shows off a prototype phone interface that works by sticking one's finger in the ear. Worn on the finger, the Bluetooth-enabled terminal converts voice to vibration ...Read More
