Michael Rose (Again)

The internet is a mess. I'm curating a tiny corner of it.
slavin: I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time in my life that I looked at a real picture and assumed it was from a video game. The photo speaks to the things that console games have down — the geometry and finish of machinery, the blurless fragments of a detonation, smoke effects on a cloudless sky. The avatars’ faces are turned away so you can’t see how difficult it is to simulate a meaningful expression. The outstretched arm in the avatar further from the camera is outstretched just it would be in a studio with someone wearing a motion capture suit. As a videogame still, it’s perfect. As reality, it’s grim and sad, a reminder of something on the planet that continues without hope.  #ludicproxy #butinreverse afterimg: U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (via A Soldier’s Life In Afghanistan » TotallyCoolPix) Which video game is this from?

slavin:

I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time in my life that I looked at a real picture and assumed it was from a video game.

The photo speaks to the things that console games have down — the geometry and finish of machinery, the blurless fragments of a detonation, smoke effects on a cloudless sky. The avatars’ faces are turned away so you can’t see how difficult it is to simulate a meaningful expression. The outstretched arm in the avatar further from the camera is outstretched just it would be in a studio with someone wearing a motion capture suit. As a videogame still, it’s perfect. As reality, it’s grim and sad, a reminder of something on the planet that continues without hope. 

#ludicproxy #butinreverse

afterimg:

U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (via A Soldier’s Life In Afghanistan » TotallyCoolPix)

Which video game is this from?

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“€œMan is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed” - Blaise Pascal

“I ask noble Lords to think about what a Steve Jobs school would have looked like. For the staff, certainly it would have been one with a hero head model, someone solidly leading the school and not delivering what the children wanted, but what they needed. There would probably be a fairly flat staffing structure, but to the world outside it would not be the Steve Jobs school, it would be an Apple school: beautifully designed and one in which people just wanted to learn. It probably would not even have school rules, just as the iPad does not have any instructions, because it would be so engaging. That is what technology can give us: really engaging education that sucks learners in and makes them want to find out more and educate themselves more rather than just the flat, didactic one-way learning that is the tradition which some would like to see revived. I think it belongs in the Dark Ages.”

Why Cloud?

I really feel Apple have screwed up with iCloud. Dropbox and Google sync remain the only reliable options for me right now.