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PAUSE: More Than 1,000 Toy Cars Zip Along At Scale Speeds of 240 MPH. Xmas Present?
We want this. Performance artist Chris Burden has an installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that’s right out of FAO Schwartz. This is the same guy who had his assistant shoot himself in the arm during a performance piece, so you know he’s serious. It looks amazing. Via Hyperallergic: M
How One Art Gallery Is Turning Sports Into a Show With Warhol, Avedon and Kubrick.
We had our own sports week last month, because we think they often get the shaft in the realm of thinking about games. Now, a curator named David Little at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is taking the same tack for the art world. Titled “the Sports Show,” it will feature work such as Richard Avedo
Our Bodies, Our Controllers: How Our Skin Might Be the Next Touchpad.
Tired of janky game controllers? Perhaps your forearm or forehead might be more appropriate. Desney Tan and Scott Saponas recently demoed Skinput, their technology that creates an interface using “bio-acoustics” to create touch-sensitive surfaces of our body. It’d be a bit like touching your finger
Cheat Sheet 3/5: Rumors of a Valve console, Halo 4, and Minecraft going splitscreen.
Hey guys, here’s today’s news: – After the Consumer Electronics Showcase, Valve have been rumored to be working on their own console. It sounds like a PC, but it’s made by Valve… – Minecraft on the 360 is bringing a very interesting new feature: splitscreen. The dying breed of multiplayer sounds li
Will iPhone Games Be Our New Therapists?
Benedict Carey of The New York Times, has written an article discussing therapy apps. The concept seems oddly in line with a Brave New World despite its intention as an aide. The apps would be a collection of minigames that encourage users to practice healthier behaviors through completing simple, r
So What Counts as Piracy Anyway? And Should We Be Doing Anything to Stop It?
Good artist steal, bad artists borrow, right? Then there are pirates. Over at Techdirt, Mike Masnick pubbed a lengthy response to the Weekly Standard’s assessment of piracy. In summation, the Standard is in righteous indingation about the public’s blase treatment of piracy but Masnick points out th
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