example's bookblog for 'Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)'
Progress: 30 pages
Warren Ellis has talked a bit about a new book he's writing where he's going to include a little url in the book that leads to an online wiki/discussion site for the book. Reading this book I realize that this is a book-spime, as talked about by Sterling in this book. Very cool. Ellis has talked about the idea of spimes before so I'm sure that's what he's thinking. Both of these guys are freaking cool.
by mattg on Apr 21, 2006
Warren Ellis has talked a bit about a new book he's writing where he's going to include a little url in the book that leads to an online wiki/discussion site for the book. Reading this book I realize that this is a book-spime, as talked about by Sterling in this book. Very cool. Ellis has talked about the idea of spimes before so I'm sure that's what he's thinking. Both of these guys are freaking cool.
by mattg on Apr 21, 2006
Progress: page 32
"The task of the artist is to create, not to talk". -Goethe
Great. To keep with the theme of connecting this to comics, I was hanging out at Larry Young's AiT/PlanetLar booth at the San Diego Comic Con one year when he told somebody why he doesn't do all the talks and panels at the show. He said something to the effect of "Some people are up there talking about making comics, I'm down here actually Making Comics."
by mattg on Apr 21, 2006
"The task of the artist is to create, not to talk". -Goethe
Great. To keep with the theme of connecting this to comics, I was hanging out at Larry Young's AiT/PlanetLar booth at the San Diego Comic Con one year when he told somebody why he doesn't do all the talks and panels at the show. He said something to the effect of "Some people are up there talking about making comics, I'm down here actually Making Comics."
by mattg on Apr 21, 2006
Progress: Done
"I have an internet of things with a search engine. So I no longer hunt anxiously for my missing shoes in the morning, I just Google them. As long as machines can crunch the complexities, their interfaces make my relationship to objects feel much simpler and more immediate." -page 94
The real issue isn't having Google for your shoes, it's having an interface that lets you Google your shoes without having to use your computer/phone/etc. That's going to require a new system, like a whole-house voice activated computer. The voice control part of that is hard though so we won't be finding that system at CompUSA anytime soon.
by mattg on Apr 23, 2006
"I have an internet of things with a search engine. So I no longer hunt anxiously for my missing shoes in the morning, I just Google them. As long as machines can crunch the complexities, their interfaces make my relationship to objects feel much simpler and more immediate." -page 94
The real issue isn't having Google for your shoes, it's having an interface that lets you Google your shoes without having to use your computer/phone/etc. That's going to require a new system, like a whole-house voice activated computer. The voice control part of that is hard though so we won't be finding that system at CompUSA anytime soon.
by mattg on Apr 23, 2006