Name: Christopher Lewis
Location: Burlington, VT

Part time philosopher, full time coder. I dabble in many things. One day I will probably write half a novel about it.

I'm not much of a photographer, but I like to play one on Instagram.

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Double Fine Adventure

“Over a six-to-eight month period, a small team under Tim Schafer’s supervision will develop Double Fine’s next game, a classic point-and-click adventure. Where it goes from there will unfold in real time for all the backers to see.”

The kickstarter project for Tim Shafer’s new point-and-click adventure game has gotten completely out of control, netting over $3 million in contributions. Shafer is the brain behind the adventure classics Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle. His company, Double Fine, is also responsible for their recent critical success, Stacking.

I’ll admit, I had no real interest myself until I was charmed by Shafer’s irreverent pitch video. Each of the follow-up updates are also worth a watch (there’s even a bloopers real).

Tags video games art kickstarter video creative funny gaming

via Feed Store: This design comes to us from my esteemed colleague Matt Jones, who originally posted it on Flickr to rave reviews. It’s since been sold as a T-shirt on Howies in the UK and as a print on 20x200. Thanks to his incredible generosity we are making it available here for the US t-shirt wearing audience as well. A clever spin on the now classic Keep Calm and Carry On slogan used by the British during WWII.

via Feed Store:

This design comes to us from my esteemed colleague Matt Jones, who originally posted it on Flickr to rave reviews. It’s since been sold as a T-shirt on Howies in the UK and as a print on 20x200. Thanks to his incredible generosity we are making it available here for the US t-shirt wearing audience as well.

A clever spin on the now classic Keep Calm and Carry On slogan used by the British during WWII.

Tags clothing art inspiration

 Source feedstore.muledesign.com

Good documentation is good. Artful documentation is better. Scraped from the Tumblr output source.

Good documentation is good. Artful documentation is better.

Scraped from the Tumblr output source.

Tags code art

Where do you draw the line on fair use?

Original photo © Jay Maisel. Low-resolution images used for critical commentary qualifies as fair use.

Andy Baio, one of the founders of Kickstarter and creator of King of Bloop, a chip-tune homage to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue runs into legal trouble - not about the music, but about the album art:

TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing about it publicly until now.

It’s a fascinating read. A concise supporting argument by Neven Mrgan (one of the good ones) can be found here.

Tags law tech art music

The Solar Sinter Project

prostheticknowledge:

Solar Sinter Project by Markus Kayser via Creative Applications

I’m truly blown away by this.

A solar-powered 3D printer in an Egyptian desert creates with sand and magnified sunlight to make glass-based objects.

In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance.
In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.

Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and trigger dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.

More at Creative Applications

The new mad scientists rediscover sanity in an insane world.

Tags art tech energy science

Reblogged from prosthetic knowledge 

The Problem of Choice

via Edw Lynch at Laughing Squid:

In “Choice” by RSA, Professor Renata Salecl asks whether the ability to make limitless choices helps or hinders our lives and our society. The lecture is part of the brilliant animated eductional series, RS Animate.

Wonderfully animated and thought-provoking. It brings depth and insight into the increasingly common dialogue concerning malaise in modern life.

Tags social-policy animation philosophy art

 Source youtube.com