Daniel Rehn points out a project I missed called the Joint, a fictional collection of rooms in a fake apartment building where each site is a byte of pixellated goodness.
Rhett Allain is an Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and his is obsessed with Angry Birds Space. (So are we.) Part of series of posts exploring gravitational physics, he’s updated his previous model that suggested “the gravitational force was constant and there was
One of my favorite new blogs is as simple as it sounds: Context-Free Patent Art. It’s a collection of images pulled from the US Patent Office’s archive documenting potential “new” advances in technology. But patents also feature diagrams to describe said work and the results are often delightfully c
Two works from German visual artist Gerhard Richter. 4900 Farben (4900 Colours), 2007. Enamel paint on Aludibond, 680 x 680 cm. 1024 Farben (1024 Colours), 1973. Lacquer on canvas, 299 x 299 cm [via Flavorpill]
A woman named “Rachel” has launched a new site devoted to something surprisingly simple: cataloguing the number of women and girls featured in videogames. She writes: “As I grew older, I found that video game culture and girly culture rarely intersected. Yet, happily, there were places where the tw
Monday’s almost over so let’s get to it: – Nintendo has confirmed that they will be showing off a new Wii U Mario game at E3. – EA has weakly denied allegations that they have laid off anywhere from 500 to 1,000 employees. – Crysis 3 has been announced and will be coming out next Spring. – A demo fo
Cabin in the Woods has been getting massive amounts of hype. As The Guardian pointed out, it is credited as “a total game-changer,” “mind-blowing” and “the start of something new.” That’s a heavy burden for any film to carry and I’m not even sure that this one lives up to that. Don’t get me wrong,
Slashfilm recently featured the above teaser poster for Wreck-it Ralph, a video-game inspired animated film. Ralph is an 8-bit baddie who gets frustrated with constantly losing to the hero and breaks out into other games to try out life as the hero. The movie’s got a solid cast for the leads with Jo