Category Archives: art

Some Fine Gentlemen Play A Friendly Game

Alex Drummond just sent me this sketch of some fine, respectable gentlemen playing a friendly game of Kodrek. He also sent me some earlier roughs: Gotta say, I’m pretty excited. I’m doing preliminary flows of the text of the game into an InDesign file right now. I sure wish style importing was more smarter.

Wave of Reason

Fighting Trousers

I’m always so happy to see one of my people* doing what we do best. (Courtesy Judd.) * According to my wife, the following people are “my people”: Jews, Geeks, Lesbians (?), Punks.

Embedded Order

OK, This Is The Point Where Things Get Weird

This is a Playstation game that uses your actual environment as a place to hide digital game pieces. You interact with them by doing stuff in the real world. The Shock:Shirts I just had printed do a little bit of this in the opposite direction: they give a URL to your phone via QR code, [...]

Augmenting Reality To Make It Less Commercial

Unlogo Intro from Jeff Crouse on Vimeo. Now, imagine that you’ve got this running in your glasses. Edit: This project is up on Kickstarter!

Last Chance to Order a Shock:Shirt

Thanks to everyone who’s ordered a Shock:Shirt so far! The shirt will go to press on Thursday, so if you’ve been thinking about getting one for yourself or someone else you think will want to alarm their co-workers, order quick like a robot bunny! Size (remember that they’re a little tight) S $20.00 M $20.00 [...]

Marain — the Alphabet of the Culture

Look what Daniel Solis did! It’s a font of the brush version of Marain, the language used by The Culture! This is what Marain looks like when it’s not brushed: I’m particularly excited about this as I’m working on the Languages chapter of Human Contact right now. I’ve got all the parts for Kepho-Rn, the [...]

Snowbird — First Human-Powered Ornithopter

Almost every ornithopter I’ve seen has been clunky and mechanical. This one moves like a heron instead. Now… imagine that this was a place with less gravity or thicker air…

Blade Runner, Laid Flat on a Giant Cube

BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.