Hi, I'm Tad, and these are the things I like. @tadcampbell - Tumblr Blog

Farewell - ETAOIN SHRDLU - 1978 — by Linotype: The Film A film created by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss documenting the last day of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times. This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to creating stereo moulds to high-speed press operation. At the end of the film, the new typesetting and photographic production process is shown in contrast to the old ways. There are interviews with workers at NYT that are for and against the new technology. In fact, one typesetter is retiring on this final day as he does not want to learn the new process and technology. This is the first time the film has ever been available in HD from the original 16mm master film. See more printing, journalism, and typographic-related films at: www.printingfilms.com

#video #vimeo #Linotype: The Film

Marvin Chun – Decoding The Mind (FoST 2016) — by Future Of StoryTelling www.fost.org 2016 Future of Storytelling Speaker: Marvin Chun Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology, Yale University For the first time in human history, science and technology have caught up with the imagination. Psychology professor Dr. Marvin Chun’s research is introducing tools to decode the mind. Join Dr. Chun and our other 2016 Speakers for intimate roundtable conversations on important topics shaping storytelling at this year’s FoST Summit. Learn more about FoST Fest here: fost.org/fest Apply to attend the FoST Summit here: fost.org/summit/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/fostorg on Facebook: facebook.com/futureofstorytelling and Instagram: instagram.com/futureofstorytelling/

#video #vimeo #Future Of StoryTelling

#funny

#runescape #funny

What is a subreddit of 100,000 subscribers worth?

#reddit #subreddit #moderator #power

Is this the next civil rights battle?

#suicide #life

Daniel Rozin, "PomPom Mirror," 2015 — by bitforms gallery Daniel Rozin "PomPom Mirror," 2015 928 faux fur pom poms, 464 motors, control electronics, xbox kinect motion sensor, mac-mini computer, custom Software, wooden armature 48 x 48 x 18 in / 121.9 x 121.9 x 45.7 cm Edition of 6 Rozin’s anthropomorphic "PomPom Mirror" features a synchronized array of 928 spherical faux fur puffs. Organized into a three-dimensional grid of beige and black, the sculpture is controlled by hundreds of motors that build silhouettes of viewers using computer-vision. Along its surface, figures appear as fluffy animal-like representations within the picture plane, which is made permeable by a ‘push-pull’ forward and backward motion of meshed ‘pixels’. Ghostly traces fade and emerge, as the motorized composition hums in unified movement, seemingly alive and breathing as a body of its own. Filmed and edited by Victoria Sendra.

#video #vimeo #bitforms gallery

infoneer-pulse

One-fifth of US adults say they go online “almost constantly,” and three-quarters at least once a day, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. That’s equivalent to about 49.3 million US adults who almost never leave the internet during their waking hours, based on the latest US population estimates, and 171 million who sign onto it daily.

Roughly 50 million US adults say they go online “almost constantly” - Quartz (via infoneer-pulse)

#internet #life #culture

infoneer-pulse

Attention is a finite resource facing an infinite internet. Previously scribes, readers and librarians carefully selected specific texts with which to engage. Now, when anyone with a keyboard and network connection can be a “published author”, we have to choose which texts (or sites, slideshows or Twitter feeds) deserve our attention. And we’re still in that kid-in-a-candy-store phase when we want it all and even challenge ourselves to consume it all, when really it’s time to distinguish between gummy cokes and malt balls, perhaps forgoing candy altogether and opting for vegetables. Just because the data is there to be consumed doesn’t mean we have to partake. This sort of confused reaction to technological paradigm shifts isn’t new. Historians have noted that electricity, railroads, billboards and newspapers were all thought to overwhelm our body clocks and fry our minds when they first came on the scene. Thankfully it is much easier to close our eyes and ears to the internet than to billboards or ambient radio transmissions. Many of us simply lack the confidence to do so.

Lack of user boundaries, not information overload, is the great internet problem | Marisa Olson | Opinion | The Guardian (via infoneer-pulse)

#internet