Cross-Reference

Is this really what the future of magazines looks like? More importantly, will people be willing to pay for a rich media magazine experience? What’s wrong with paper? Why do people gravitate towards bits and away from atoms? I love atoms.

This collection of amazing photographs of 1930’s New York City in the New York Public Library Archive are really worth a look. But really any of the 700,000 images they offer online are fascinating.

Young Jean Lee interviewed by Richard Maxwell

I just love artist interviews. I love being able to see into an artist’s mind.

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Speaking of Videos, On the Boards recently launched a new project called OnTheBoards.tv. It’s a paid content site where you can purchase or rent videos of contemporary performance – theater, dance, performance art, etc. For example you can purchase a right to watch the entierty of Young Jean Lee’s excellent and thought provoking “The Shipment.” (see my review here)

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I love these hilarious and most likely controversial street art pieces by Specter. I wish I could see them in person (miss ya brooklyn!). They are promotional items for, or maybe even part of, an exhibit about gentrification in Brooklyn, at the The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts [MoCADA].

Definitely check out the rest of Specter’s awesome portfolio.

(via wooster collective)

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.

—Henry Ford

I love this amazing video, it visualizes the complex process that goes on behind the scenes of a project in development. I love how clumps of data fly around form person to person and when huge amounts of new bits fly in. Trying to correlate that to my own dev experience is fascinating.

You can see more code development visualizations at
vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm

kind of artsy of google this commercial is. but does google really need to make commercials?

This was on the other night but I missed it, I was stupidly watching LOST. Thankfully it’s available online. The video of course is emblematic of its own subject matter.