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Art project reflects on the totally tubular artifacts of yesteryear
The photos above belong to a whimsical, oddly humbling series called Relics, created by photographer Cody Williams. Williams took the idea of bringing an era alive—the 1980s, no less—and bleached it: Relics is a project playing off the idea that the white Greek statues that we see now were once bri
New Björk video is a celebration of retro games, bad special effects
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry has once again teamed up with Icelandic avant-gardiste pop singer Björk to create a music video for her new track, Crystalline. The result? A weird, retro, lo-fi collision of bad 1980s special effects and Missile Command. As it should be.
M.I.T. e-waste project follows your old electronics into the great beyond
As part of it’s Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects exhibition, MoMA recently put M.I.T.’s Senseable City Lab project, BackTalk, on display. To raise awareness about what happens with our discarded cellphones, printers and computers when we upgrade, BackTalk follows o
Cheat Sheet 8/3: Blizzard expansion may be christened, Sony buys Infamous devs
Let’s contemplate some more mainstream videogame news! –Introducing the Just Dance 3 Kinect trailer. -Get the latest on Tekken X Street Fighter straight from the director. -Blizzard’s next WoW expansion may be called Mists of Pandaria. -Ellen McLain, voice of GLaDOS, will be lending her talents f
Cheat Sheet 8/2: GoW3 to feature Ice T, Diablo III needs to stay online, Capcom suggests last SFIV update
-Capcom is promising its “final” version of Street Fighter IV is in the works. –Diablo III will require an internet connection in order to play at all. –Gears of War 3 will feature rapper Ice T, thrash metal band Body Count musically and otherwise. -What’s new in videogame litigation: Zynga is be
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