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13 months and 11k lines of code later, i’ve finished up the choose your own adventure project. all told i ended up cataloging a dozen books from the early-to-mid 80s, looking for patterns in their construction and in the paths made by different readers through them.
these short, simple books had a surprisingly complicated structure with their interlocking pages & choices. as a kid the idea of writing one and keeping all those pages straight boggled my mind. what was lost on me at the time was that even a list of hundreds of page numbers can be comprehensible if it’s redrawn as a diagram. these days i feel like i approach everything that way.
so here is my look back at an obsession from my past, using graphical obsessions of the present to guide the way.
Bookmarks
A museum aside from the cooper hewitt doing a show on typography? What is going on in the world...
The mighty Powell's have a meta bookreview index of articles at TNR, the Atlantic, Salon, and others.
A nice write-up on a show I saw at the DeCordova last month. Jeunet & Caro-like blasted future type environments and some neat developing techniques preventing the need for photoshop make for some really striking images
I suppose I should be less surprised given that the BBC isn't just any bureaucratic monolith, but nonetheless it's strange to see any mass-media company paying attention to actually interesting music, let alone doing so with such thoughtfulness...
This American Life meets flash animation. (And yes, the site itself admits its ripoff status on this score. And no, that doesn't take away from the fact that the story is damn good and the images add something to it without dumbing things down)
Proving that java can be used for non-cruddy purposes. I recommend turning on the zoom option before you begin typing your zip code. The animation is kind of thrilling in an Area MT-experiment sort of way
Both stunning on a technical level for actually making flash a useful UI, and the content of the magazine is fabulous to boot. The pieces by Matthew Curry deserve particular attention, treading an interesting line between rave-art and super mario brothers
Some truly amazing (and beautiful) digital films. If only commercial networks in the US had taste enough to sponsor actual originality...
Creepily lifelike (and way out of scale) sculptures with uncountable numbers of legs and joints strolling along the beach.
Awe inspiring array of tutorials for installing, maintaining, and customizing an MT installation
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Wow, Nature gets the RSS religion, posting the current table of contents as a newsfeed. Certainly beats it cluttering up your inbox and going unread...