AvantGardeBar, Ottawa
28.Feb 2006

“The Comics Jam is an opportunity for people to share the creative powers of imagination and to have in their hands, a tangible product of this process, by the end of the night. It’s a new kind of group activity where participants get together to create an illustrated story born from the collective consciousness they share. On a large sketchbook, one person produces a panel, introducing a character and a situation. Once finished their drawing and scripting, they hand-over the story to the next participant, who can then add more characters and plot twists, until each person has completed one panel and the story has reached its final climax. The results vary from the wild and crazy to the wickedly funny! This activity requires minimal logistical support and the only materials needed are a large sketchbook, provided by AOE, and drawing implements, supplied by the participants themselves. After the Jam is over, each story can be auctioned off to generate more funds for the next Jam.”

via Space and Culture

AvantGardeBar, Ottawa
28.Feb 2006

“The Comics Jam is an opportunity for people to share the creative powers of imagination and to have in their hands, a tangible product of this process, by the end of the night. It’s a new kind of group activity where participants get together to create an illustrated story born from the collective consciousness they share. On a large sketchbook, one person produces a panel, introducing a character and a situation. Once finished their drawing and scripting, they hand-over the story to the next participant, who can then add more characters and plot twists, until each person has completed one panel and the story has reached its final climax. The results vary from the wild and crazy to the wickedly funny! This activity requires minimal logistical support and the only materials needed are a large sketchbook, provided by AOE, and drawing implements, supplied by the participants themselves. After the Jam is over, each story can be auctioned off to generate more funds for the next Jam.”

via Space and Culture

Yes, it is true! I have to confess, that I sometimes fall in love with colors. How can this be possible? The beauty? I also fall from time to time in love with books. This are always books that are extraordinary beautiful in my eyes.

Yes, it is true! I have to confess, that I sometimes fall in love with colors. How can this be possible? The beauty? I also fall from time to time in love with books. This are always books that are extraordinary beautiful in my eyes.

Es geht scheinbar doch und nimmt teilweise echt krude Formen an. Die Cyberspace-Theoretiker der 90er Jahre werden letzten Endes doch noch recht behalten. World of Warcraft ist ein virtuelles Land mit 5.5 Millionen Einwohnern, tendenz steigend.

Was bedeutet es, in diesem Land zu leben? Was bedeutet das für das echte Leben? Hier gibt es ein Weblog, die über ihr Leben in WoW schreiben. Die Jungs auf d-frag haben darüber auch mal kritisch resümiert. Auf einer Party gestern sagte mir jemand, World of Warcraft sei “kitschig”. Kann ein Land kitschig sein?

Es geht scheinbar doch und nimmt teilweise echt krude Formen an. Die Cyberspace-Theoretiker der 90er Jahre werden letzten Endes doch noch recht behalten. World of Warcraft ist ein virtuelles Land mit 5.5 Millionen Einwohnern, tendenz steigend.

Was bedeutet es, in diesem Land zu leben? Was bedeutet das für das echte Leben? Hier gibt es ein Weblog, die über ihr Leben in WoW schreiben. Die Jungs auf d-frag haben darüber auch mal kritisch resümiert. Auf einer Party gestern sagte mir jemand, World of Warcraft sei “kitschig”. Kann ein Land kitschig sein?

I was reading about moss-art over at We-Make-Money-Not-Art. I’m really into moss since going camping last weekend, so it was a little surprising that someone is already making art out of it. Anyways, a few clicks led me to this post about a japanese movement called Slow Life.

‘The current economic system has required people to be busy trying to achieve growth — it’s as though they’re continually riding a bicycle. People have to do things fast to meet the demand for excessive efficiency. So there’s no way to avoid doing things faster and faster. That’s the system at the moment. I think it would be better if Japan became a beautiful third rate country. It would be nice if Japan was a place of delicious food, beautiful scenery, and abundant nature. If that were the case, I think it wouldn’t matter if one had little money.’

I think the idea of Slow Life could be really useful for the USA as well. We’re similar to Japan in that we have gotten obsessed with the game of constantly making more things cheaper and faster and newer at the expense of reliability and overall happiness. I really like the idea of the united states becoming a third world country. The leaders of this country are so obsessed with being an incredible world power. Why do we need that much power?

I’m think i’m going to be living the slow life from now on.

Link: Some more interesting thoughts

(I’m behind on my obligatory “I posted something new” post. Here goes. . .)

New P5 Nature of Code tutorials online!
Now with light grey background!
Hot particle action!
All sine and cosine all the time!
(and something on web crawlers too)