100 Years of Rock Visualized. From Gospel to Grunge: 100 Years Of Rock in Less Than a Minute is an ambitious design project from ConcertHotels.com.
It’s an animated, interactive timeline design that let’s you click on any genre to highlight it’s specific history and play a sample of the appropriate music. The history of rock music is pretty interesting. Everyone knows that it’s roots lie in genres like Gospel, but what about all the other genres?
How did Cowpunk come about? Or Indie Rock? Although music heritage isn’t an exact science, the color-coded flow arrows are easy to follow throughout the design. Found on Fast Company. Citizens Manifesto for European Democracy, Solidary and Equality by European Alternatives. Pessoas de esquerda são mais inteligentes que as de direita, aponta estudo. Arabic Science Fiction: A Journey Into the Unknown.
The genre of science fiction, with its spectacular imaginations and inventive possibilities, has enjoyed an overshadowed history in the Arab world; a history that goes back many centuries.
There are over thirty definitions on what constitutes a science fiction story. Quite fitting for a genre of such a wide breadth, with tales spanning time, reality, the human condition, and much more. Sci-fi’s greatest power, like most fiction, lies in its ability to inspire and provoke ideas, reflecting society back onto itself. As Issac Asimov, a giant of sci-fi literature, once said, “The core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” When examining Arabic science fiction, one inescapably stumbles into perplexing knotty questions regarding the Arab world’s relationship with fiction and science, and its mounting struggles in determining it’s political, economic, and cultural destiny.
Under a Western Shadow. Facebook's New Colocation And Image Recognition Patents Tease The Future Of Sharing - TechCrunch. Facebook’s empire was built on photo tags and sharing, but it’s a grueling process many neglect.
Luckily, new Facebook patents give it tech to continuously capture video whenever your camera is open, rank and surface the best images, and auto-tag them with people, places, and businesses. They tease a future where pattern, facial, and audio recognition identify what you’re seeing for easy sharing. The patents are for Automatic Photo Capture Based on Social Components and Identity Recognition (’80), Preferred images from captured video sequence (’00), and Image selection from captured video sequence based on social components (’65). The were filed for in October 2011 and granted over the last two months to Facebook and its employees Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, David Garcia, and Soleio Cuervo (who now works at Dropbox). The patents cover some colocation technologies similar to that of failed startup Color, who came out of stealth in March 2011 a few months before Facebook filed for the patents.
Política zombi, política plasma >> Micropolítica. El diccionario lo tiene claro: zombi es una «persona que se supone muerta y que ha sido reanimada por arte de brujería, con el fin de dominar su voluntad», y en su segunda acepción es un «atontado, que se comporta como un autómata». ¿Está zombi nuestra política institucional? La pregunta es pertinente. Cada semana que pasa supera a la anterior. Y los datos siguen cavando una fosa insondable. «Hundir» es el verbo de referencia. Mientras esto sucede, el Presidente del Gobierno nos ha ofrecido una brillante solución: no hacer nada. Rajoy sigue confiado en su inercia política y temporal que le lleva a no hacer movimientos cuando todo se tambalea. El Rajoy catódico, el que vemos y escuchamos a través de un plasma (en una insultante versión de una rueda de prensa), alimenta esta visión y percepción de transrealidad con su superposición en pantalla.
Lincoln y Obama, el mismo poder en dos discusos. En plena emoción por el esperado estreno de la película ‘Lincoln‘ y por el discurso de Barack Obama en su nueva toma de posesión, parece descabellado hacer una comparativa entre el discurso que ofreció este viejo presidente el 4 de marzo de 1861 y el que pudimos oír de Obama el pasado 20 de enero de 2009.
Ambos son dos textos inaugurales, dos tomas de posesión. Pero no es tan descabellado si los miramos con lupa, si intentamos entender el porqué de esas palabras en momentos tan oportunos. Barack Obama's victory speech (Part 1) Barack Obama's victory speech (Part 1)