Pixels

PIXELS by Patrick Jean from ONE MORE PRODUCTION on Vimeo. Similar:Rapture #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 10) Sisko's "visions" complicate politic…Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira is moved by th…DramaI just tried Open Shot Video Editor, a free open source toolFor years I used ScreenFlow, which offer…Current_EventsSummer Theater Camp Photos: "Patrice" in "13" My 11yo performed the…

Video games: the addiction

Today the most consistently pleasurable pursuit in my life is playing video games. Unfortunately, the least useful and financially solvent pursuit in my life is also playing video games. For instance, I woke up this morning at 8am fully intending to write this article. Instead, I played Left 4 Dead until 5pm. The rest of…

In Which a Young Lady Receives Her Illustrated Primer

Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age (1995) features a fantastic interactive book that educates a neglected guttersnipe, turning her into a capable, intelligent independent heroine.  The iPad doesn’t quite match the vision of that book, but this video is still amazing. Similar:Really enjoyed Prime Stage Theater’s video presentation of Mockingbird.Obviously I would have preferred to see …AestheticsI…

Lorem iPad

Jason Kottke uses standard Latin typesetting dummy text to express his opinion of the technology media’s coverage of the iPad. Hilarious! Lorem iPad dolor sit amet, consectetur Apple adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Shenzhen. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud no multi-tasking ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip…

13 of the Brightest Tech Minds Sound Off on the Rise of the Tablet

A pre-release critique of the tablet culture. Compared to other kinds of information that computers process today, text has an exceptionally small footprint. With the arrival of the tablet, we have crossed a critical threshold: Where text is concerned, we effectively have infinite computational resources, connectivity, and portability. For decades, futurists have dreamed of the…

More culture that will be lost when newspapers die.

What would our lives be like, in the post-newsprint world, without important cultural expressions like this? Similar:Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants new Facebook feature to burst 'filter bubble'It’s extremely important to understand w…CybercultureDinosaur Comics Creator Stuck in Skate Park Hole Takes His Predicament to Twitter In Real … HI IT’S ME RYAN @ryanqnorth If …AmusingHere’s What…

Seton Hill Unviersity mentioned on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

The iPad is mentioned a couple times during this feature on how wonderful Seton Hill University is. Just kidding. Seton Hill is mentioned twice about a minute into the clip (after the advertisement). Similar:The dawn of the post-literate societyThe world of print is orderly, logical a…BooksPreview of "The Fantasticks" (thanks, Tribune-Review, for covering the arts…

Quotes of the Day – TIME.com

Time.com Similar:Bryan A. Louiselle, 1966-2022 (musician, composer, orchestrator, musical director)I was Mayor Shinn to Bryan’s Harold Hill…CultureLining up for Honors Convocation 2016. #setonhillAcademiaA Prof Debunks Standardized Testing & Pearson Strikes BackAll this emphasis on standardized testin…AcademiaDigital Storytelling: Empower the Multimodal Writing Classroom with Scratch How can the busy writing teacher interes…Aestheticswhen someone say ur joke…

"How to Play IF" card

At PAX we debuted the “How to Play Interactive Fiction” postcard. If somebody is sitting down in front of an IF game for the very first time, this card should give him or her an idea of what commands are likely to work — and what commands are *likely* to work. It’s not trying to…