Google News Timeline

"Timeline results are generated by a computer program, and we don't guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information you may see. Dates may be wrong." via infosthetics.com

Emotional Cartography

Emotional Cartography is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psychogeographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold, to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visulising intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology.

stopmotion inside stopmotion

you may have seen something like this, but this is a particularly nice example:

Little Red Riding Hood, a new illustration.

Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

Op-Video: Sex, Lies and Photoshop (NYTimes video)

Why magazines should let readers know if images have been retouched.

What do you think?

Interesting Essay on Writing and the Alphabet

Found this interesting essay on writing and it's effect on our thinking; seemed relevant to our discussion yesterday on the evolution of text.
On the Ecological Consequences of Alphabetic Literacy:
Reflections in the Shadow of Plato’s PHAEDRUS (David Abram)
what do you think?
(David Abram is author of "The Spell of the Sensuous," a wonderful book on environmental philosophy and our experience of the natural world, which includes some of his ideas about text's influence on our evolution)

Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar - Filthy Fluno - NYTimes.com

How a struggling Boston painter finally found success through his alter ego -- a hip, virtual-world art-scene maker.

Article - NYTimes.com.