B.A. thesis project of Stephan Thiel at the Interfacedesign program of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Understanding Shakespeare is an attempt to create a new visual understanding of the work by analysing most frequently used words for each character. Using Processing, a scene is represented by a block of text and scaled relatively according to its number of words. Characters are ordered by appearance from left to right throughout the play. The major character’s speeches are highlighted to illustrate their amounts of spoken words as compared to the rest of the play.
A music blog for people who don’t have time for music blogs.
Thanks Tim
“ Everything we put on the Web is both ephemeral and archival — ephemeral in the sense that so much of what we post is only fleetingly relevant, archival in the sense that the things we post tend to stay where we put them so we can find them years later.”
Scott Rosenberg: Why trust Facebook with the future’s past?
He goes on to compare the way that older sites - like Flickr - expose an archive, whereas newer ones - like Facebook - don’t, despite the fact that some of the promotional commentary for the Places feature has been about looking back in twenty years. In other words: “Facebook could be such a repository today, if it actually cared about history. It has given no evidence of such concern.”
Sitting through the new Air New Zealand Safety video twice today, I realised that:
a. i don’t get rugby puns
b. i dislike korus in type treatments
c. nanas streaking make everyone laugh
d. the All Blacks are everywhere
e. still not sure about the new Trelise Cooper uniforms
plus the video feels longer than the painted people version to me
“ Well, here’s an even more subversive thought: are the rules of arithmetic, the basic logical premises underlying things like long division, unsound? Implausible, you might think. After all, human error aside, our number system delivers pretty reliable results. Yet the closer mathematicians peer beneath the hood of arithmetic, the more they are becoming convinced that something about numbers doesn’t quite add up. The motor might be still running, but some essential parts seem to be missing — and we’re not sure where to find the spares.”
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Thee Psychick Bible
Throbbing Gristle makes me happy
Things that make me bemused #002
Youtube comments
FUCK YOUTUBE”S NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THAT ARE ON BEFORE THE VIDEOS. FUCK THE CORPORATIONS THAT OWN THEM AND FUCK THE ASSHOLE THAT DECIDED THAT WE DONT SEE ENOUGH COMMERCIALS ON TV AND WE NEED IT FOR YOUTUBE A WELL.
YoutubeVEVO make people happy
seophoria
n. the satisfaction of lists, a series of bullet points being fired into the air as if to celebrate victory against the complexity of a universe that bombards us with five exabytes of data that would paralyze us if we didn’t connect random dots into constellations of dippers, hunters, and sexy ways to please your man.
