The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame : The New Yorker

“I’ve never seen anything like this. This secret world has finally been revealed,” said Arthur Cockfield, a law professor and tax expert at Queen’s University in Canada, who reviewed some of the documents during an interview with the CBC. He said the documents remind him of the scene in the movie classic The Wizard of Oz in which “they pull back the curtain and you see the wizard operating this secret machine.”

Freehand Playable Circles, in Any Tuning, on iPad: New Orphion Editor

[Boy, this looks like a very cool iPad controller. -egg]

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“I can’t think of another interface at the moment that provides this much free experimentation. You could, theoretically, make up new pitch layouts for each performance. You could find a single layout and get really good at that, practicing it as you would a new instrument. Or, you might use this as a canvas with which to experiment with different designs, perhaps even realizing your favorite later in hardware and letting the iPad be the prototype.”

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Neil Freeman Gives a Tour of Bushwick, Brooklyn : The New Yorker

Neil Freeman Gives a Tour of Bushwick, Brooklyn : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/neil-freemans-alternative-geography.html

Broadly, the goal of Freeman’s stuff is to visualize geography in surprising ways. Using publicly available data sets and software tools to manipulate them, he cuts familiar places into pieces and tiles the pieces into new patterns. Three years ago, for instance, he had the idea to draw a map in which every street in a city is centered on the same point. Viewed this way, New York takes on the shape of a sea urchin; Chicago, Freeman’s home town, is a four-point star; Los Angeles shoots out jellyfish-like tentacles across several axes. Often he generates a new work by messing around with scale: “Scale is a convention in maps that people take for granted and don’t notice.” In 2003, he created a deck of playing cards featuring maps of all nuclear-capable nations, rescaling the maps so that each of the sixty-seven nations was the same size; the following year, he took the subway grids of dozens of cities—Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, Madrid—and fit them to a single scale, revealing distinctions that weren’t as visible before.

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Book review – Unpleasant Design

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From enhanced-CCTV surveillance to bench handles, various tracking and prevention systems are employed in controlling the users of public space. These systems are often neatly designed and seamlessly integrated in the existing architecture, acting in a persuasive way on its users. While preventing unwanted interactions between the authorities and citizens, these systems leave no space for discussion or disobedience continue