Click Nothing

design from a long time ago

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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Hyperrealism

  • Convergence Culture

    Part Five: Gaming Across the Fifth Dimension Revolutionary ideas in science, technology and philosophy don’t exist in isolation in academic institutes, government think tanks, or corporate R&D labs, they touch all aspects of our culture. The ideas of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin undercut millennia of oppression, giving rise to concepts like literacy, democracy and equality.…

  • Click Nothing Tour 2009 – Part II

    In the beginning, there was nothing It's been a long time in coming, but I have finally put the finishing touches on the Click Nothing Tour 2009. It's going to be a long and complex one, but it should be fun. One talk, seven cities, ten days. The talk, as detailed in a previous post,…

  • Click Nothing Tour 2009 – Part I

    So for those who missed it in the microsecond that it flew past on Twitter, I will be keynoting the GameX Industry Summit conference taking place in Philadelphia on Oct 24-25. Here are the working title and summary of the talk I plan to give: The Territory is not the Map: Hyper Realism and the New…

  • My New Avatar

    Wicked. For those who know me, you will probably think I either got some friends at Valve to put me in Half-Life or that I found a way to swap out one of their character heads with on I made myself, but in fact, that is just a stock character from Half-Life 2: Episode 2,…

  • MS Visual Multiverse

    Okay, now this blows me away. I know a lot of people can’t be bothered to install a bunch of Active-X Controls to look at a webpage, but believe me, this time it is so worth it. Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth parses a collection of photos and analyzes patterns in them – then assembles a…

  • Collating Chaos

    I way dig this guy’s blog. Aside from very high calibre layout and design, and his uncanny ability to find brown hues that actually work, he has this wicked ‘tag cloud’ functionality. He has a java script that parses all his posts, finds the most commonly used words by month, and the most recently used…

  • Mixing Metaphors: Camera and HUD in GRAW

    In general I’m not going to bother to review games here. If you want a review of GRAW, go here. What I will do, though, is try to talk a bit (more) about what I learn specifically from specific games that I play. Here I’m gonna talk about what I learned about Camera and HUD…