May 2012
5 posts
Skillcrush: The Magic of Lilypad Arduino →
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Or How to Sew Your Way Into the Computing Sciences
A Lilypad Arduino powered tic-tac-toe board. Via Rainycatz
When I tell people that one of my personal goals is to bring more women into tech, and that I plan to do so by making tech learning fun and accessible, a lot of people -…
When I get a cold sales e-mail from a random...
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April 2012
9 posts
Apps, Sites and Sounds - Share Talk links
I’m currently in Belgrade for the Share Conference, here are the links I referenced in my talk yesterday. Apologies for the ugly formatting!
Sounds that I love
What home sounds like to me
Baby’s first words
Sound of the Internet
Mexico City
Moscow
Siri does not compute
Amazing Apps
Korg iMS-20
Native Instruments iMaschine
DroidVox
OneSheet
Beatwave
WebDoc
...
On being very used to objectification
Nothing like some fresh misogyny to start the day, eh?
This is from the May issue of UK Wired. My favourite area is “Hot chicks misidentifying as nerds” (because ha ha, hot women can’t be nerds, that only happens in porn!).
But this isn’t misogyny according to Wired. I got a response from David Rowan, the UK Editor on Twitter that stated that it was “ironic...
March 2012
16 posts
Watch+1 !!
uvmann:
Congratz!
tweektv:
Booya!
We are thrilled to announce that Tweek is ready to be enjoyed as an iPad App.
Tweek is NOW available in the German & UK App Store.
Lean back, download Tweek and be inspired!
Love,
Team Tweek
Jack 2 Jack (Jesper Dahlback Remix) →
What a track.
WatchWOAH! I bumped into Nardwuar the Human Serviette last night at SXSW. Why is that exciting? Watch the video below to witness Canada’s most prolific Tam o’Shantered interviewer (and musician) earn Henry Rollins’ respect, warning NSFW.
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Photo Hack Day Berlin
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be one of the judges at Berlin’s first ever Photo Hack Day, organized by the kick-ass team from Eyeem.
I’d describe Photo Hack Day as a minimal viable hack day - it had all the best elements of a hack day without an over the top budget, fanfare or ego. The space, a repurposed community pool-come-nightclub, was distinctly DIY Berlin: dirty and...
February 2012
15 posts
Check out Caroline's Berlin Tip List →
Thanks!!!
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Caroline is a product manager for SoundCloud: “I’ve lived in Berlin for over a decade now but the city never ceases to surprise me.”
Her tips are great!
“skeuomorphs — bits of design that are based on old-fashioned, physical...”
– Clive Thompson on why retro design hurts innovation
Nicky Minaj - Shape Shiftress
Minaj isn’t being inauthentic about celebrity—celebrity is the most authentic thing about her. Making it now doesn’t require pantomiming the big dreams of a little Italian girl from Detroit or the troubled life of a Trinidadian-born drama tween from Queens. Stardom can actually porter whatever baggage you bring to it. All it asks is that you embrace its bonkers logic and then perform it back to...
On M.I.A.'s finger
This is what makes M.I.A.’s protest-in-the-name-of-what-exactly? so riveting, “important,” and almost prophetic. She flatters our desire for authenticity, for a real spokesperson who apprehends the full circumference of the planet, and then she goes and makes a bright, gaudy T-shirt of it all. If she has sold out — if she represented anything in the first place — then...
In defense of Lana Del Rey
I love the Lana Del Rey album. And, I loved her on SNL. Her performative weirdness was a bigger middle finger than M.I.A. could ever give.
I think much of the press and vitriol around Lana Del Rey misses the point. Stuck in a post-empire state of mind (remember Bret Easton Ellis proclaiming the end of Empire, or old celebrity?), we expect her to be knowingly and cunningly real. But her strange...
A Cynic on Cupcakes
Sometimes, I’m a real grump. I’ll admit it. One of my curmudgeonly hangups is that I’ve been a long time hater of cupcakes. Not the small ones your mom made for your class on your birthday, but the sort of cupcakes that garner adjectives like ‘bespoke’ and have 5 centimeters of icing on top.
Yes, they are delicious, but there’s something about the...
January 2012
2 posts
WatchThe sound of 4 delightful cats this morning in Echo Park.
December 2011
2 posts
“Among many other things, OWS has thus revealed the doubly-bound character of...”
– Reinhold Martin’s fascinating read on the relationship between Architecture and Urban Planning and #OWS
November 2011
19 posts
WatchJagwar Ma - Come and Save Me