I guarantee you most 15 or 16 year olds would be so much more interested in The Great Gatsby and its endless droning on about the corruption of the East Coast if they could play it as a sidescroller. And now they can!
(Engadget)
School children in the UK were greeted with an amazing sight on a recent morning: a crashed UFO.
On arriving for classes, the Kingsway primary school students were greeted by a debris field on the playground (one supposes nothing sharp or radioactive) and personally greeted by the alien occupants in their classrooms.
As a child (and even now), I would have been enthralled by this day of learning.
The event was put together in order to encourage creative writing and imaginative thinking within the school.
The pupils will now write their experiences from the day for a school newspaper to be published and distributed throughout the local community.
By partnering with a local acting high school – and giving its students a role as the extraterrestrial visitors – the activity generated a creative opportunity for both actors and writers that they will not soon forget. It was also a truly interactive learning experience that reminds me of the simulated space mission I got to be a part of as a Penn State junior.
LOVE this. Featuring the vocals of Romy Madley Croft (of The xx, if you couldn’t have guessed immediately). Gorgeous.
Well, we now know how one might translate some of Danielewski‘s zanier ideas into a tangible paper book.
What you are seeing here is an amazing, handmade German art book called Thoughts on Dreams that has been threaded with hyperlinks to direct readers from one important section to another. It is sublime. I also love how it really illustrates the idea of interconnected content in a way that does, actually, look like a sinewy spider’s web or neural network.
(Engadget)
“We’re rehearsing for our own future – why not do it as pleasantly as possible?” – Syd Mead, futurist
The second installment of BMW’s films on the future of mobility has just been released and it combines a plethora of things I like including: retrofuturism, cars (obvious) and visionary artist, Syd Mead (who is awesome).
So, I’m out and about today. And, again, it’s been a snowy, blustery drive across the state of Pennsylvania. Luckily, I-80 was the road of choice and it’s actually plowed (especially when compared to, say, Route 22.) Given the five hour ice-drive I got to undertake last week when going from Brandywine to Altoona, I’d say today has been downright boring. Since I haven’t had a chance to post them until now, enjoy the photos from East to Central PA:
From “Are we taking evolution into our own hands?“:
Today we continue to live the same process, but in an enormously accelerated fashion. For better and worse we are transforming ourselves from a Homo sapiens, a species aware of its environment, into a Homo evolutis, a species that directly and deliberately begins to control its own evolution, as well as that of many other species.
I’d add that we are now a species that can directly and indirectly alter the evolution and survival of the entire planet – and have been for decades.
(CNN)
First there was the deployment of a much snazzier design language and now this: Kia has unveiled its SuperBowl commercial, one that gives us aliens and temporal vortex-summoning Mesoamericans. I’d even build an Optima online (update: I have) after seeing something so keyed in to my mind.
(Autoblog)
At least that’s how it feels when you are driving into a complete white out. It seems like nearly all of my travel this 2011 semester has been timed to perfectly match a recent or approaching winter weather event. I’ve had flurries, unplowed roads, thundersnow, snowy fog, etc. Today’s trip to Brandywine: calling for ice and sleet. Add a thick crust of road salt to all of this and you have a perfect summation of life on the road as a traveling consultant in winter.
This is a good day on route 22, I’m afraid.
Now let’s put some of that Spring into this semester’s designation, shall we?