how to stereo
Most of film culture has been built around monocular capture and reproduction. A single camera lens produces a flat image. The flatness of the image has l...
Category: play
desperately seeking sounds
After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the dr...
Skateboarding is for losers.
“Why not tennis?” I’m asked, “or golf? Why does it have to be skateboarding?”
Spanishes
Free advice, actually worth a lot. I’ve been married to a Mexican for almost 20 years and I’ve slowly learned that Mexicans communicate in a way tha...
the carnivalesque and Trump rallies
In addition to being campaign events for an institutional political party and its candidate for POTUS, rallies can also be carnivals. links and citations below....
Equeibol
You know it’s 2016 when these are just a few of your options to represent… from L to R: Santa Cruz, Powell-Peralta, Chocolate in the long tradition of Elg...
“In translation it doubled in size”
Bruce Webber on the late Rosario Ferré Ms. Ferré began writing in English in the 1990s in the hope of reaching a wider audience. Interviewed by The New York Tim...
The eyes of the other
John Lahr profiles actor Al Pacino: To Pacino, there is no such thing as a fourth wall. “The audience is another character in the play,” he said. “They become p...
the delight of what comes next: the relief of being displaced across time and space.
watching a movie. going to church. racing a car. surfing the web. visiting a museum. playing a sport. all are ways to experience the relief of being displaced a...
Is literalism a faith? The problem with wizards and vampires.
Perhaps the reason why literalists have fretted over the popularity of books like Harry Potter and movies like Twilight is not that they fear children will lear...
play yourself
stories are how we make sense of the world. they impose a structure on what would otherwise feel chaotic – “one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” ...
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About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
Facebook + smart grids + cash prizes = It’s on! (and off!)
I know my fellow consumers. We are a conspicuous competitive lot. Look at what I got. Also, free shit. Everyone loves free shit. I was just trying to remember w...
Sports and other games for self-understanding.
Will Self: Men – and some women – watch football, dispute and debate football, and even occasionally kick a ball around, because it offers them a small-scale mo...
A massive multiplayer movie experience.
Reading Michael Heilemann’s celebrated investigation of how the character of Chewbacca was crafted, it struck me that movies are multi-player text-based v...
Are Bansky’s graffiti examples of augmented reality?
An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.
Google Wave, the failed MOO.
A few days ago I joked that Google Wave has a lot in common with Dungeons & Dragons. The next day Google announced it would abandon Google Wave. After read...
Dungeons & Dragons vs. Google Wave
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that’s notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Her...
Like “Rock Band” for the “Dog Whisperer” set.
A video game that captures not just your movements but also those of your dog. Fun for the whole family. Come on, Kinect developers, let’s see what you...