Am loving this analog pixel art using crayons by Christian Faur. What I first read as an approximation of digital glitching/artifacting, in the form of patterns of off-color pixels thrown in throughout, turns out to be a steganographic cipher, hiding messages within the images. Each image has a letter/color mapping key at the bottom left.
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A few days ago, it was rumored that Twitter would begin charging brands for commercial use. This was soon denied, and rightly so — it makes no sense, as it’s just impossible to adequately delineate. There’s been talk of charging for “brand verification” as well, to ensure, say, that the person who claims to be [...]
He was a musician I was somewhat fascinated with in the 90s, and I just discovered today that he’s keeping a daily blog that’s pretty damn great. In today’s post he drops some wisdom about the cyclicity of cultural aesthetics. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but I do love the phrase “the anxious echo.” Definitely worth a [...]
Well, sort of. Nearby Tweets just uses the location you stated at registration time, but it’s a very cool user-discovery feature nonetheless. I love an app like this — it does one thing, and does it well. It throws a simple user interface on something that was already available in the twitter API (thanks for [...]