Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Aug 10, 2012 – Aug 19, 2012
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Aug 19, 2012
Two weird examples of photo manipulation that aims at converting an “innocent” image into something erotic or pornographic in nature: (1) The now old “mormon porn” strategy, which consists in adding circular bubbles on an image in order to make people focus on certain aspects, (2) The pixellation technique, that the…
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Aug 16, 2012
Read in Freud’s Civilization and its discontents
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Aug 15, 2012
“Asymmetric gaming” as described here:
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Aug 14, 2012
Found in Jay, Martin. 1993. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth- Century French Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press:
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Aug 13, 2012
A great quote by Craig Stecyk, 1975:
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Aug 13, 2012
Not exactly your über cool high-flying drone, but I find remote-controlled cars like this fascinating. The real-time perspective, via the goggles, might be weird.
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Aug 13, 2012
“Biotic video-game” or more thoroughly described in Design, engineering and utility of biotic games by Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse , Alice M. Chung , Burak Dura , Andrea L. Hamilton and Byung C. Lee (2011):
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Aug 10, 2012
Working on the “Curious Ritual” book project, I found that interview of Bruce Sterling very much in line with what we are exploring (with field observations as the one represented above):
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