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Pen-&-Paper RPG Creators & Gamers Raise $62K for Pakistan Flood Relief
What amazes me most is that there’s still so many pen-and-paper RPG gamers around.
The Life That You Love Is the Life That You Fear
Take the Social Web, RFID, and a brand people can identify with, and combine everything into a world that’s every bit as exciting as it is frightening in its prospects.
#Next10 Conference—Three Leaps Into Social Media: Stowe Boyd
On Stowe Boyd’s presentation “Social Media Blur: Blogs, Networks, Streams” at the Next10 Conference in Berlin, May 11–12, 2010.
Blazing Away: Mr. Potato Head Evolved!
What if Mr. Potato Head lived in alternative universes? See Steampunk Mr. Potato Head and Warhammer 40K Mr. Potato Head blaze away!
“We Are Living in a Science Fiction Novel That We All Collaborate On”
Footage from Kim Stanley Robinson at the “Competing Cosmologies, Effecting Worlds: Intersections of Science and Religion” event at Duke University, NC.
#Next10 Conference—Power Struggle and Choosing the Right Channel: Stefana Broadbent
On Stefana Broadband’s presentation “Power Struggle and Choosing the Right Channel” at the Next10 Conference in Berlin, May 11–12, 2010.
#Next10 Conference—Giant Leaps, Small Steps: The Post-Purchase Dissonance of the “Game Changing” Chord
An introductory review of the Next10 Conference in Berlin, May 11–12, 2010, and its motto “Game Changers.”
Mashup Culture: The Amazing Aliens Rap
Both Robocop and T2:Judgment Day are terrific movies I’ve watched a kazillion times. But Aliens, for me that’s in a whole different ballpark.
Welcome—to My Real Home!
The idea of “digital natives” makes much more sense if applied to people who actually live in the digital media.
Digitale Darmentwicklung
Cute little Japanese ad for a camera from Takara Tomi which, well, can produce its printed photographs itself.
Heroes@Home
Steve Schofield’s photo series “Land of the Free” about American popular fandom culture in the UK: fanboys and fangirls pictured in their natural environment.
Emoticon-Storytelling—No, really!
There’s no medium in which it would be impossible to tell a story, but sometimes it might be just too difficult. Or could emoticons become a native language?
The Latest Internet Meme: “Literal Music Videos”
Make your own voice track to to narrate the visual story in music clips instead of the original lyrics.
Lilac Day by Leonid Fedorov
Leonid Fedorov’s Lilac Day is an incredible album that reminds me of Neil Young’s sound track for Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Alfred Schnittke, and tunes from Yiddishe folk songs
Would the Real Mock-Up Please Stand Up!
Just after I wrote about the Houston Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, boston.com’s Big Picture series put a brand new photograph online.