FLNR

observer-participant, digital culturalist.

an 8-bit history of cameras

new-aesthetic: “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.” Descriptive Camera, via Tom T (Uses Mechanical Turk to create human descriptions of photographs.)

new-aesthetic:

“The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.”

Descriptive Camera, via Tom T

(Uses Mechanical Turk to create human descriptions of photographs.)

vorvor:

Gotta hand it to the heli pilots and camera operators who give those of us at home a front row seat to one hell of a show. 

So outrageously cool. Is there a standard method for producing these four panel “giftics”? 

Revolution as a dance aesthetic. 

yacht:

“Le Goudron” is a surrealist revolutionary song originally recorded in 1969 with The Art Ensemble of Chicago; YACHT has reinvented its naive-apocalyptic candor for a neon-soaked dance floor, their preferred autonomous zone.

Download for free on SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/yacht/le-goudron-edit

A paradigm shift occurred in the 1960s: the cognitive revolution. Since that time it has become respectable to study cognition, although emotion and motivation were still considered suspect by many experimental psychologists. An integral part of the cognitive revolution was the computer metaphor for brain function. Psychological research during the past 40 years has been dominated by an information-processing model of brain function based on the computer metaphor.

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Unplugging the Computer Metaphor | Psychology Today

Technology becomes metaphors; repeat.

(via new-aesthetic)

(via new-aesthetic)

There are, as many have observed, two American economies. Whereas huge swaths of the country remain hobbled by scarce credit, depressed home prices, and high levels of unemployment, the technology hubs in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York City are booming. “If you’re where the start-ups are, you’d never think there was a recession,” says Yael Hochberg, an economist who teaches classes on venture capital and entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. To young people who can write software code, the question of the moment is not whether or not they will be able to find jobs. It is, says Hochberg, “Do you want to raise $200,000 to start a company, or do you want to go work at Groupon?”

As the rest of the country worries about the slow pace of economic recovery, the tech world frets about whether there’s a new start-up bubble. “The global economic meltdown had very little impact on our universe,” says Brad Feld, a Boulder venture capitalist and a co-founder of TechStars. Four years ago, Feld made an angel investment in Zynga, a company that makes online video games for Facebook users. Today, Zynga trades on the Nasdaq and is worth more than $9 billion. Facebook itself is expected to be worth as much as $100 billion when it goes public later this year.