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Just posting this because I linked to it in the previous post but the imagery is just too wonderful not to include.

“A device to wrestle with the STRONGEST ANIMAL IN THE WORLD: the rhinoceros beetle. This device includes a head-and-body mounted display that equips humans with the appendages required to interact (with the males at least). In addition it scales us and our forces to the beetle proportions granting us similar manipulative capacities and even playing field; an architecture of reciprocity.” (via Chris Woebken I Beetle Wrestler)

Was pointed to this by Ianus. Alexandra tweets:

“So far it seems this year’s #SXSW key launch has been an app you play with your cat. Maybe now is the time to let Lindon and Berlin shine.”

So yeah, a marketing game about cat food. Ho hum. It’s a shame there’s not much more going on here beyond slapping at a screen as fast as possible.

The piece also mentions “Friskies hailed the game as the world’s first ever duel-species game.” Not true. I won’t talk about Pig Chase, ‘cause that’s not a playable game yet. But there’s plenty of prior art. My favorite: Beetle Wrestler (2008), by Chris Woebken, Natalie Jeremijenko, Lee Von Kraus and Leigha Dennis.

(via First Ever iPad Game Lets You Play Against Your Cat – DesignTAXI.com)

Je mist meer dan je meemaakt, helemaal niet erg.

Quote from a Dutch author Martin Bril which roughly translates as: “You miss more than you experience, nothing to worry about.” Pointed to by Alper while discussing that well-known feeling while attending large conferences with Niels, who had just gotten back from GDC.

Nederlands.nl: citaat: Je mist meer dan je meemaakt, helemaal niet erg.

More animal weirdness. Not exactly sure what this means but the image of a pig with parts missing, as if it’s partially eaten but still alive is strangely alluring. I also find the llama-like cows disturbingly cute.

Lovely models by Kate McGreevy (by mattward)

Mark Tansey, The Innocent Eye Test (1981)

Came across this image in a Frank Lantz talk. Reminded me of a story I heard while working on Pig Chase: a farmer used video images of a boar to “prepare” sows for insemination…

(via DAILY SERVING » The-Innocent-Eye-Test)

Against frequent efforts to dismiss objects as fantasies assembled by humans from a pre-given surface of experienced contents, I contend that reality is object-oriented. Reality is made up of nothing but substances — and they are weird substances with a taste of the uncanny about them, rather than stiff blocks of simplistic physical matter.