megan and I went into a social psychology class yesterday where there was a recording speaking to the room over a boombox, with the human professor standing aside as if she was merely the operator or caretaker of the machine. i imagined that the boombox could be merely the bug-faced head of a robot professor, where instead of the eyes taking up...
Soak it up. This ball you sit on, called Earth, is huge. It is monstrous. Truly feel it. Let its enormity run through your veins and smother your brain. Feel it lying beneath you. It is unrelentingly, massively, frighteningly gigantic. It is bigger than any other object you've ever dealt with hand to hand. It shows us no mercy as we are...
NAVIGATE / SPACE
Create a space and a method to navigate through it.
Carefully consider different possible types of space and unique ways to navigate.
Implement your software as a full-screen application in Processing.
You may work individually or with a partner.
There are five phases: research, software sketches, prototype, refinement /...
on behalf of myself and my branding group, i present to the internet a collection of waters for different kinds of people:
water for stamp collectors
water for miniature train set conductors
water for crossword puzzle solvers
water for crossword puzzle solvers that defected to Sodoku
water for nudists
water for people who like Star...
I recently saw a documentary called "Deep Water" which made me fascinated by the story of Donald Crowhurst, a man who spent an amazing amount of time in complete solitude at sea, seeing as he had no life to return to, facing economic ruin and public humiliation. All he was surrounded by was an endless amount of waves and ripples,...
What would it be like if there was no night sky? What if the only thing up there was just blackness?
Would we have ever tried to cross the oceans? Would we have ever landed on the moon?
Would we ever look up?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve an equation, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight...
This project assumes that its authors know what it means to be human and that that definition of human can be applied to all members of the race currently existing on the planet. There are no specifications made about humans from the United States or humans from Guatemala; all are lumped together. In finding the alien in our own race to be a...
...As I walked away, I noticed a shadow. It was dark.It was created from the fire of the burning bridge that was behind me.The bridge held me up; held me together; kept me alive.Now it's gone, and all I see is this dark shadow before me.Where is it taking me? Should I follow it? What should I do?I see nothing but darkness in front of me. Yet hope...