Batman, inspired by Ben Newman, drawn by Matt Taylor, who has some of the best lines in Tumblr biography: I'm an illustrator and I live by the sea. I like drawing pictures for money....
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. What are...
アメリカ生まれの日本の子 by yukkie "American-born Japanese Child" aired on Fuji TV's "Let's Play with Mama! Pin Pon Pan" (ママとあそぼう!ピンポンパン) sometime before March 1982, when the show went off the air. It's written by Minami Rambow, a prolific composer (for kids and otherwise) whose credits include a children's record where a ditty called "A Cat Named Cat" is followed by...
Nothing adds nostalgia to a just-taken iPhone video like retro visual effects and silent film-inspired title cards. The Silent Film Director app for iPhones can transform any video you take into a ’60s-style home movie or a 1920s-esque silent film, taking that Instagram effect and amping it up a few notches. The app is available in Standard...
Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave...
Now that computers have progressed to the point where they can challenge humans on Jeopardy! and defeat a Grandmaster in a game of chess, it's time for us to ask serious philosophical questions about what it means to be "human" during a time of accelerating technological change. If the Singularity is near, what impact will...
Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #7 (Manipulating Symbolic Systems), 2011, glitter and neon pen with foil print on gridded vellum, 8.5 × 11 in / 21.5 × 28 cm. From the Positive Signs series on the SFMOMA blog....