The Guide

Hello World! Processing from Ultra_Lab on Vimeo . I've been playing around with processing great deal as of late. Really enjoying Daniel Shiffman Nature of Code video series and book

Always a collection of interesting ideas.

http://docmadhattan.fieldofscience.com/2012/06/turing-patterns-in-coats-and-sounds.html

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts (Phl) on Vimeo .

Creativity is the residue of time wasted. Albert Einstein  

Clay Shirky talking about his concepts of Cognative Surplus and Marshall McLuhan

Here is a talk from Amber Case.  She has some really interesting ideas on how we interface with each other and technology. Amber is working on a book that is exploring these ideas. You can see of it here. http://cargocollective.com/cyborg-anthropology

Here is the followup documentary to " Triumph of the Nerds " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1 ------------------------------

Just finished watching this documentary from 1996.  Very interesting to see where all this stuff came from right before the internet took off. The doc was done in 3 episodes on PBS and have been nicely compiled into a playlist of 18 segments on youtube. I would love to see a real follow-up to this ( apparently there was a sequel 2 years later about the internet, but I think much more has happened) Here is the wikipedia article on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds ------------------------------

If you have a large amount of time and love Buckminster Fuller you should have a sit down with these recordings. The whole collection of talks amounts to around 42 hours, but some lovely people have broken it down nicely onto youtube. It's pretty packed full of ideas and probably worth a listen to some of it. I'm defiantly going to try and get through it all (in a few sittings). Here is the site that the tapes first came from https://conversationswithbucky.pbworks.com/w/page/16447435/FrontPage Enjoy ------------------------------

Here is a video of a talk Jaron Lanier gave at a conference on Augmented Reality recently. I read his book "You Are Not A Gadget" recently and I'm curious about some of his ideas. He is one of those thinkers that I'm very interested in keeping up on what they have to say (including Bruce Sterling , Clay Shirky , Amber Case and Tim O'Reilly ) He mentions a short story by E.M. Forster (1909) in his talk called "The Machine Stops" that sounds like it would be a worth while read for all of us at some point. http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html He also mentions an man name Ted Nelson that was one of the early thinkers on technology. I must go learn more about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson ------------------------------

As some of you may know, I've been working on Augmented Reality projects at Talking Dog Studios and I also have a great love for sound in all it's forms. I think these two videos compliment each other and I think I'm curious to look more into these concepts. I've been playing around with a app for the iPhone called RJDJ that seems to sit in the middle of these two videos. Enjoy ... ------------------------------