Amy Lombard is a Brooklyn-based photographer who’s started a new Kickstarter project to document the life of people who shop at Ikea. The above boy and his Xbox are recent captures: To elaborate a little more on the project – As a photographer, I am not necessarily interested in staging reality so t
This is just insane. Makers of MLB 2K12 and MLB: The Big Show take note: The team will host a party for 500 people on an infield that features a bar, a full-service grill, an oyster bar and a dessert stand. A 12-foot screen will protect the party attendees from errant line drives and any advances
Last night and last night only, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium here in New York hosted independent gaming collective Babycastles for an evening of gaming and science. The sold out event, entitled Cosmic Cocktails and Space Arcade, included access to the exhibit, Be
John Pavlus at FastCoDesign jumps into a new study that looks at the obtuseness of programming languages like Perl. The problem, according to the study, is these coding languages are “so ridiculously opaque that, from the perspective of a novice programmer, a string of characters bashed out by a mon
French toy retail Artoyz opened their new exhibition yesterday dedicated to Raving Rabbids of, well, Raving Rabbids fame. Geek Art has more photos.
Silent protagonists such as Link from The Legend of Zelda are often seen as stubborn holdouts from the primitive days of videogamesChaplinesque mimes who’d be better suited for a silent film than modern media. But as described by John Lahr at Culture Desk, silence can be golden. The success of “T
What is the best analogy for the way our brains work? Perhaps it is videogames. In an interview on the topic of free will, Michael S. Gazzaniga, author of Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, describes consciousness, or the state of being aware of one thing or another, as a well
Apple is under fire again, this time at the hands of the NY Times who published their second report on work conditions in Apple’s China factories. Read the piece for the entire breakdown of FoxConn’s conditions, sloganeering like “”Work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow,” and