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Gamer’s Paradise: Simogo’s Eerie Year Walk Breaks All The App Store Rules
The rapid rise of the iOS App Store offers unprecedented opportunities for game developers to reach new audiences—but it’s also created unprecedented competition. An incredibly saturated mobile market...
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Panteros666 Introduces His New "Hyper Reality" Live Show
Hailing from Lille, a charming post-industrial city in Northern France, electronic producer Panteros666 started playing music as a teenage drummer for some local indie bands. Out of that nascent music...
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Kill Screen: Episode 6 Speaks To The Writers Behind Gears of War: Judgment
When it comes to action-based video games, the narrative probably takes second place in the player’s mind, superseded by the most important task at hand: laying waste to bad guys and aliens. But the...
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The Evolution Of FPS Graphics From The Nineties To Now
If you’re a gamer, then you’ve no doubt whiled away plenty of time playing first person shooters. They may be one of the most ubiquitous of genres—no one is crying salt tears because the selection of...
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Why Artwork Should Be Open Sourced And Revisited
Making apps is easy. Everyone and their kid sister is making apps these days. What’s harder, sometimes, is justifying why the app you have made deserves to exist—often it doesn’t bear thinking about...
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Experience Synesthesia In Animated Form
OK, sit back and strap yourself in because things are about to get a little weird. You’re about to get lost in the RGB forest and make sensory associations you would never think of in Oscar López...
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Hello World! Processing: A Smart New Documentary On The Awesome Potential Of...
Software engineer and artist Casey Reas inspired a digital revolution with the creation of the open source creative software, Processing (co-developed with Ben Fry), which allows users to draw using...
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288 Analog Clocks Form A Mesmerizing Kinetic Artwork
You don’t necessarily need 288 clocks to tell the time, but you do if you’re design studio Humans Since 1982 and you’re creating your kinetic installation A Million Times. It’s a larger iteration of an...
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Hyped: The Week In Links 3/1/13
On the blog this week we found out why indie video games are a big deal right now, we introduced our video on interaction designer James Patten, and in LAYERS Daedelus broke down his collaboration with...
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Cauboyz Build DIY Installation That Merges Graphic Typography With Baroque Pop
If the Renaissance illusionary tactic of trompe-l’oeil ever made a comeback through technology, it would be in Husbands’ new music video for their song “Dream,” directed by Cauboyz. Hailing from...
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Virtual Psychedelia: Enter Vinyl Williams' Surreal Jungle
Remember that creepy tunnel scene in the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory when Gene Wilder turns awesomely demented while embarking on a psychedelic boat trip with crazy, multicolored...
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Hollywood Blockbusters Minus The VFX
Suspension of disbelief is obviously key to immersing yourself in any work of fiction. From reading a novel to watching a movie, but with a movie the suspension of disbelief isn’t entirely down to your...
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15,000 Volts Turns A Piece Of Wood Into An Electrifying Short Film
Sometimes the best way to create something is by destroying something, like frying a sheet of plywood with 15,000 volts of electricity to see what the effect would be. This simple idea is what Melanie...
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Enjoy The Multisensory Experience Of An Animal Collective Live Show
Although radio doesn’t carry with it the same sense of collective listening it once did—there’s just too many other platforms out there vying for our attention—everyone who was around to listen to it...
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Hussein Chalayan's Newest Collection Will Double Your Wardrobe Capacity
There is this impossible daytime-nighttime transition that plagues the fashion-conscious. Finding the perfect skirt that can transform from being office-appropriate to meeting the standards of a grumpy...
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LAYERS: Opening The Doors Of CENOB1TE's "Hyperion"
This week’s LAYERS brings us Chicago’s own bass heavy production duo CENOB1TE, who specializes in fusing techniques from various sub-genres of EDM to create a sound unto itself. The team consists of...
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Natalia Stuyk's Videos Are 2D, 3D, And Always Trendy
Natalia Stuyk is an up-and-coming animator to watch out for. Her most recent work is featured in the fashion film (below) by Mat Maitland for Kenzo’s 2013 Resort collection. The video’s 2D animations...
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Leo Villareal's Bay Lights Will Light Up San Francisco's Bay Bridge With...
Tonight marks the opening ceremony of what will become the world’s largest LED light sculpture. With over 25,000 LEDs strung along nearly 5 miles’ worth of vertical suspension cables, the The Bay...
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How To Be Anonymous In The Age Of DNA Surveillance
Last week, Bushwick gallery 319 Scholes brought together 60 artists for the second annual Art Hack Day—a three-day-long, bleary-eyed hackathon where teams created technology-based works around the...
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Tom Cruise On A Tilted Bridge: Artist Tomasz Opasinski Discusses Movie Poster...
At some point in your life, you’ve had a movie poster on the wall of your home. Maybe in your student days when you thought you were the first person to discover the French New Wave you had the...
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