I have some catching up to do with these. What can I say, things got in the way of writing last week’s notes. These past two weeks I have been pushing to get a new project, codenamed Ebi, off the ground. It is the next step in my involvement with the PLAY project in Utrecht. [...]
Look Closely, Doctor – See the Camera? – NYTimes.com So while The Game has given rise to alternate reality gaming, The Truman Show has lead to an increase in cases of paranoid delusion. (tags: delusion psychosis TheTrumanShow films culture psychiatry mental health)
Bashers » Blog Archive » Apenkooien (Dutch) "Voor een TV en met een stuk plastic in mijn handen bestuur ik poppetjes die kunnen rennen, springen en aan lianen of touwen zwaaien. Deze computerspelletjes vullen het gat dat voor mijn pubertijd is ontstaan en alhoewel ze dat verdienstelijk doen, en alleen maar mooier en mooier worden, [...]
Frank Chimero "I want to see things earn the privilege to be objects. If we have the option of things being “real” and “not real,” I want the real stuff to be really good. I want the times when ink hits paper to always be beautiful, useful, and desirable. It seems like such a shame [...]
Service design in Nederland, vier dilemma’s / 31Volts [service design] (Dutch) Marcel Zwiers overpeinst de stand van zaken rondom service design in Nederland. Vooral zijn opmerkingen over de kloof tussen strategie en actie vond ik interessant om te lezen. De vraag blijft, wat is het equivalent van een maquette voor het ontwerpen van een dienst? [...]
A very low-key, quiet week this was. Partly due to the fact that I took the Monday off (gasp!) And partly due just to the fact that it’s one of those in between periods. Old projects winding down, new ones starting up. One of those new projects I’ve codenamed Ebi. It’s the next step we’re [...]
Seth's Blog: 16 questions for free agents "What does busy look like?" Some thought provoking questions for people going independent. (tags: SethGodin business entrepeneurship)
Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity « Playpen "Instead of focusing on racking up 10,000 hours, spend a few hundred hours being bad at something. It is a good way to understand other people, appreciate their skills and the way they view the world and it is a good reminder of what it feels like to learn something [...]
I totally forgot to post this last week; I’ll blame it on a combination of excellent weather and too much work on my hands. We’re already well into week 154, but to give you a brief overview of what number 153 looked like, let me just say it was more or less divided between: preparing [...]
The Desert of the Unreal: het Wilde Westen van Red Dead Redemption It's nice to see that Bashers has become the home for critical appraisals of games (such as this one about Red Dead Redemption). I'd just like to see more talk about how a game actually plays (at an equally critical level) and less [...]
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