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  • Matt Webb's 100 Head Cattle Drive 2008
    "PROBLEM: There is no way I can justify to myself spending that much money on plastic cows. Really, there is no way. WIN-WIN: I could however justify giving that same amount of money, or more, to a worthwhile charity. That would be an easy thing." Matt wants cows, in return for giving money to charity.
    (tags: cows ungulates charity mattwebb nonsense goodcause )
  • LittleBigWorkshop.com
    Oh wow; it's like a developer network for LittleBigPlanet. Smashing.
    (tags: videogames sony mediamolecule littlebigplanet play development creativity social )
  • STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley
    "On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…" Lovely.
    (tags: streetview performance google art tableaux pittsburgh )
  • Gamasutra – Kotick: Vivendi Titles Dropped Due To Lack Of Sequel Potential
    '"With respect to the franchises that don’t have the potential to be exploited every year across every platform, with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of, over time, becoming $100 million-plus franchises, that’s a strategy that has worked very well for us," Kotick said.' Kotick is very serious about his use of the word 'exploit'.
    (tags: games business franchise activision blizzard activisionblizzard bobbykotick sequel awful )
  • Gamasutra – Kotick: Guitar Hero Song Creator Might Be Our 'Newest Subscription Opportunity'
    ""The ability to offer these songs on a subscription basis may very well result in the newest subscription opportunity in our portfolio," he said." Kotick wants you to pay Activision to subscribe to UGC. Oh dear.
    (tags: bobbykotick activision guitarhero ugc subscription crazy insane )
  • OBAMA by *spacecoyote on deviantART
    Beautiful.
    (tags: obama okami pastiche illustration games lovely politics election )
  • Relevant History: Reflections on tinkering
    "As we move into a world in which we can manufacture things as cheaply as we print them, the skills that tinkerers develop– not just their ability to play with stuff, or to use particular tools, but to share their ideas and improve on the ideas of others– will be huge." Lots of good reflections from "Tinkering As A Mode Of Knowledge".
    (tags: tinkering hacking technology making opensource building craft prototyping learning education )
  • World of Goo Player Profiles
    Visualising the heights of people's towers by importing their savegame. Lovely.
    (tags: worldofgoo games statistics highscore visualisation )
  • howies® – Push the bees where they want to go
    "By understanding the way bees respond to all the different aspects of the natural world, the beekeeper is able to recover his own relationship to the natural world through bees."
    (tags: bees beekeeping nature systems world )
  • Dubious Quality: Guitar Hero Cow Tour
    "Every time Bobby Kotick opens his mouth, I see a giant cow with "GUITAR HERO" branded on its side, and Bobby Kotick is squeezing two teats as fast as he can."
    (tags: activision blizzard guitarhero cashcow quotation )
  • Versus CluClu Land: How Game Design is like Architecture
    "Well-designed games make us forget the technical impediments to the enjoyment of art, and this is more than half the battle."
    (tags: games play design architecture compromise craft )
  • Copy Paste Character
    Yes.
    (tags: useful typography unicode characters punctuation copypaste )
  • KeyCue – find, remember, and learn menu shortcuts
    "KeyCue gives you an instant overview of the overall functionality of any application, plus lets you automatically start working more efficiently by making use of menu shortcuts." Awesome. Really, really awesome. I might well end up registering this.
    (tags: mac utility osx application tool reference )
  • exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry
    Jos Buivenga's font foundry, with many free faces (usually in a few weights – other weights are paid-for). Some beautiful stuff in here.
    (tags: font typography type face download free design )
  • Museo Sans™ font family : MyFonts
    Beautiful, free, sans-serif font. Gorgeous – especially at 900-weight.
    (tags: font typography museo josbuivenga free sansserif )
  • Gamasutra – AGDC: Building Battlefield Heroes , EA's First Free To Play Game
    "His advice for those attempting a project like this, is to get people who understand the web. DICE hired a web development director, and a web producer. "Without those people, we would have never made it as far as we have," he says. He also recommends a web tech director, which DICE did not need to hire "because we had a team in DICE who were pretty strong."" Excellent article about building games for the online age; the section on the socially-driven BH website is very incisive.
    (tags: battlefieldheroes dice ea games development casual online web social )
  • Bandcamp
    "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff." Via Waxy; looks really excellent, and some wonderful stat-gathering tools for bandowners.
    (tags: music web application publishing distribution band startup )
  • The Amazing Wooden Mirror [pics] | Environmental Graffiti
    "a tiny camera gathers light and shape data, before sending it to a computer that processes it and uses hundreds of tiny electric motors to shift the wood blocks into the image in front of the device. Subtle gradations of shade are achieved by both the natural grain of the wood and the angle at which they are displayed, casting shadow if necessary." Beautiful.
    (tags: wood mirror technology art visualisation design interaction craft )
  • BLDGBLOG: The Atlas of All Possible Bank Robberies
    "you make a labyrinth of well-placed incisions and the city is yours. Perforated from below by robbers, it rips to pieces. The city is a maze of unrealized break-ins."
    (tags: theft maps cities buildings transgression architecture urbanism disruptive )
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