Bookmarks for 2012-11-06

Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » “Pixeliose” a disease resulting in partial pixelation of the field of vision
"Adrien suffers pixeliose, an unknown disease resulting in partial pixelation of his field of vision. To cure this disease, he goes to a woman, Dr. Rittenmatter, ophthalmologist."
(tags:video newaesthetic sf design+fiction )
Intelligence Spending Drops for a Second Year | Secrecy News
"But while intelligence budgets are shrinking, they remain very high by historical standards, having more than doubled over the past decade."
(tags:intel )
SVA Workshop: Books After Books | booktwo.org
"The workshop started with two briefs. The first examined the book cover: its purpose in the old world of bricks-and-mortar bookshops and bookshelves, and its new place online and embedded in devices, more avatar than wrapper for the book. The second looked at the problems of navigating a long-form electronic text, without the ability to thumb and spatially conceive of a solid block of paper."
(tags:books design ebooks )
BLDGBLOG: Lebbeus Woods, 1940-2012
"…we should all have, as he phrased it, a "difficult New Year." That is, we should all look forward to, even seek out or purposefully engineer, a new year filled with the kinds of challenges Lebbeus felt, rightly or not, that we deserved to face, fight, and, in all cases, overcome—the genuine and endless difficulty of pursuing our own ideas and commitments, absurd goals no one else might share or even be interested in."
(tags:architecture writing )
Ice Music « mary anne hobbs

(tags:music )