I’m on my way to PAX East! I hope to see you there, but if not, at least you can entertain yourself by maximizing your window size, then clicking on the mass of organs above that represent the history of fantastic fiction, starting with mythology and ending up in the realm of Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Wall-E.
The image is really big. You’ll seriously want to make your window full screen to see it or download it.
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I’ve seen a couple of videos of this now, but this one uses the soundtrack of The Black Hole and Blade Runner. The choice was obvious.
Human Contact contains a similar exercise that runs in the margin through the whole book.
A video called Scale by Brad Goodspeed gives us another view of the scale of our cosmic neighbors in a different way than Human Contact does.
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.
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Augmented reality promises to become the greatest, and perhaps most intellectually perilous, information technology ever.
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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, which means all sorts of stuff can happen at the relevant page. Figuring out what that is, exactly, is going to be ongoing fun for me.
I’m working with a painter on an art project that will use a combination of QR codes and Foursquare to give metadata about a piece you’re looking at right at this moment — a piece that could be anywhere in the world, but is connected to both its inspirations and protegés. Check out the site.
Now, technology: GET IN MY GLASSES.
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That’s right. Robots guarding nuclear waste. What is this, the Future?
(Thanks Renato and Vasco!)
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!
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 language of the Academy, in place, and I’m writing the systems for making new languages and dialects. It’s a damn good time.
