Developed by Jonas Wagner as a real-time WebGL Chrome Experiment, this is a visualization of 3.7 million Swiss addresses as a point cloud landscape.
Visualizing 3.7 million addresses in Switzerland in 3D using WebGL
World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements
Watch the documentary “World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements” immediately. Formatted as a game, over the past 30 years retired teacher John Hunter has developed a critical thinking exercise that leverages the…
Nine Inch Nails “Hesitation Marks” Free Album Stream on iTunes
Apple Inc. and Nine Inch Nails are providing a free iTunes stream of NIN’s newest album Hesitation Marks prior to its release. Click on the album art, open the album in iTunes, and get it while it’s hot.
Understanding the Scrap Yard of Life with Director Amanda Bluglass
Award-winning filmmaker Amanda Bluglass is a sculptor, literally and figuratively. Amanda crafts objects in her sculpture studio from pieces she finds in metal scrap yards. Likewise, the UK-based independent director crafts documentaries from unique stories. Life is a scrap yard of beautiful narratives and it is full of interesting people: from treasure hunting deep sea divers and gay and transgender ministers of the Presbyterian Church, to octagenarian punk rockers. We had an opportunity to talk with Amanda about her work, listen to it here.
Why Katharine Haché is Playing Games With Stories
Katharine Haché is a graduate student at East Tennessee State University that has developed interactive fiction using TWINE. We started our discussion talking about classic arcade games Burger Time and Mario Bros. Not unlike many of us who grew up in the 80’s, Katherine played those games with her parents. She pointed out how those early experiences helped generate fond family memories and affected her current interests in storytelling. Other points that were made in the interview pertained to the nature of video games, the publishing industry around them, and the tropes and clichés their stories often rely on.
We all love to play.
I came across a monastery in Burma a few years ago and had an opportunity to play soccer with some of the monks. Outside of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer, I…
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