Jacob Simon

Interactive music video for MNDR gets personal through Facebook.

This new music video for electronic duo MNDR is an interesting concept—it’s about you. The interactive video serves to reimagine music in the same vein as our own Soundplay features over at Pitchfork. Rather than using a game, though, the directors at Fourclops have crafted the narrative of the vide

New recommendation engine cares about your friends, even if you don’t.

Foundd, a new Berlin-based media recommendation service, just launched this week. Rather than focusing solely on mathematical predictions, unlike Netflix’s recommendations, Foundd looks at the bigger picture and makes broad strokes with its suggestions, including content from multiple content provid

Ouya, the hackable Android console, hits $2m in less than a day.

This new game console was announced only a week ago and already seems to have the gaming community rallying behind it—or at least hyping it. Led by former IGN executive Julie Uhrman, designed by Yves Behar, and advised by Ed Fries (who wrote for us  in Issue 2), Ouya is being touted as the console t

A designer, architect and skateboarder walk into a bar…

Wired recently did a profile on a company called California Skateparks—comprised of architects, designers, and skateboarders alike—explaining the balance of play, difficulty, and art that a good skatepark requires.  Every park that California Skateparks builds has certain fundamental features, like