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"A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries – these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state, society should be preparing for the consequences, according to a book that reviews scientific developments in the field."
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Drink Making Unit
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ME HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ME
Made by, I swear to you this is their name, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
The Drink-Making Unit 2.0 is based on what is known as a "deer chaser" model… a set of cylinders that will keep filling until they reach a tip point. These… are then poured out of the container and into a funnel. Once the funnel has all of the liquids that it needs to make the drink, the funnel seals and the liquids are dropped out into the glass waiting below. The mixing in this mixology is created by the dropping of fluids into the funnel and the final drop into the glass…
THREE PANELS: Michel Fiffe
Michel Fiffe is a writer, artist and journalist, one of the founder creators of the ACT-I-VATE collective and a contributor to the award-wining POPGUN anthology. I asked him if he had time for Three Panels, and he very kindly drew you this:
Suwappu
Dentsu London and BERG are developing a suite of augmented-reality-enabled toys called Suwappu:
Suwappu is a range of toys, animal characters that live in little digital worlds. The physical toys are canvasses upon which we can paint worlds, through a phone (or tablet) lens we can see into the narratives, games and media in which they live.
The first part of this film imagines and explores the Suwappu world. Here we are using film to explore how animation and behaviours can draw out character and narrative in physical toy settings. The second part is an explanation of how Suwappu products might work, from using animal patterns as markers for augmented reality, to testing out actual Augmented Reality (AR) worlds on a mobile phone.
We wanted to picture a toy world that was part-physical, part-digital and that acts as a platform for media. We imagine toys developing as connected products, pulling from and leaking into familiar media like Twitter and Youtube. Toys already have a long and tenuous relationship with media, as film or television tie-ins and merchandise. It hasn't been an easy relationship. AR seems like a very apt way of giving cheap, small, non-interactive plastic objects an identity and set of behaviours in new and existing media worlds.
Also, the badger is fucked in the head. Suwappu:
April 3, 2011
SECRET AVENGERS
But now it's been announced, I can. A bit. In most cases, the publisher likes to do the announcement and manage the first wave of interviews. In which regard, you can find interviews with me about the SECRET AVENGERS series at:
CBR – IGN – Newsarama
I am taking the piss at various levels in each of them.
Right now, I've signed on for six issues. What I said to Tom was, I'll do six, and if I've irretrievably fucked up the deadlines at that point, I'll bail out and he can get someone more professional to take over. If nothing else, I've got a lot of stuff to do this summer – I have another announcement on the 11th (moved from the 8th) – and this book shouldn't suffer from that. If I screw up, I leave of my own accord after six.
Other details are, of course, scattered through those interviews. I hope you don't find them too dull.
As of right now, we have two issues in the can, and I started work on the third a couple of days ago. I can tell you that this bit of script I posted the other week:
Is from my second issue of SECRET AVENGERS. And that every issue is a self-contained story.
Anyway. Yes. Small comics news.
April 2, 2011
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