It is surprisingly disorienting to try and paste up a strip that looks like this. I have to crop borders I don’t usually crop! Everything is topsy-turvy! Basically, it is hard to be me.
As a kid I was sort of precocious in my active, early annoyance by how zero-grav was dealt with in older pop culture. The way people would just sort of bob, upright and in place, the way stuff just sort of behaved other than floating a little bit, etc. I could make a laundry list of specific offenses, but the thesis is simple: people who were involving zero-G in a production but who lacked the interest and/or the budget to simulate it accurately tended to simulate it inaccurately! This offended young me an awful lot.
But artificial gravity is its own set of problems. And I’m disappointed we never seem to get to see just boring old pedestrian outages in sci-fi; sure, there’s zero-G sequences in some shows and movies, but those are always set pieces, not random annoying daily-life disruptions. You’d need a whole skillset for dealing with unexpected floating in assumed-weightful contexts, I’d love to see that borne out by a smart TV writer. But we’ve previously established that I’d also like to see more toilets, so I think the takeaway here is that I am not really anybody’s target demographic.
But also! When you have an artificial gravity, there’s gotta be a whole process for turning that shit back on, right? You can’t just be like “welp, got that fixed, everybody enjoy your falling-related injuries!” Maybe you stage it on over a few minutes, first with a couple minutes of 0.05 and then rolling up evenly from nil to nominal gravity so everyone and everything gets a chance to have a nice slow drift to the floor before things get back to normal?
The time has come. Hive is ready (mostly) for you, the awesome people, to use it. All the core features are in: subscribing to sites, reading those sites, sharing stories, commenting, liking, staring and xml import from google reader. The UI/UX is awesome and getting better. There are still some features I am adding/fixing and I will be doing that forever. Really excited to put this in your hands right away and get feedback.
Announcing the closed beta of HiveReader
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Sometimes things still surprise me and I say, “oh! How clever!” I did that with this Clip Bag by Peter Bristol.
Playing with scale, this bag is made of wool felt and aluminum tubing, and looks remarkably similar to those fasteners we have grown to love.
IOTA is a deck of regulation playing cards by Joe Doucet that dallies with the idea: how much you can take away while still maintaining a playable deck?
Simple geometric symbols are reductive versions of hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades. While it’s necessary to mark the back of regulation playing cards, Joe’s done so with a minimal diagonal line instead of the overly ornamental versions used at your granny’s bridge club. LOVE. So. Much.
Joe Doucet will be debuting IOTA among other projects during his Play exhibition at Wanted Design in New York, May 17-20, 2013.
Photos by Kendall Mills.
What's the biggest city in the United States — New York? Los Angeles? How about ... Anchorage! After spending an evening exploring the politics of metropolitan annexation and city–county mergers, I made a quick series of maps of the inkblot patterns of municipal limits — all in comparison to Rhode Island, naturally.
I've also been interested in the contrast in identity-space between the geographically large cities of Texas, Arizona, or Southern California and geographically small cities like San Francisco, Boston, or Washington DC. The contrasts can often be striking: only 8% of the residents of the Boston metro area actually live in Boston proper, while almost two-thirds of the metro residents of San Antonio live within the city limits. Do geographically larger cities enjoy more civic-mindedness, in addition to a wider tax base? My gut says yes, but I'm afraid I don't have any actual evidence yet.
Confession: I’ve always wanted to learn to screen print but I’ve been completely intimidated by the whole process. All the gear and supplies and then having to learn how to do it causes me much DIY anxiety. Thankfully there are companies like Print Liberation that came up with the DIY Print Shop that answer my DIY-loving fantasies with kits that include EVERYTHING YOU NEED to screen print t-shirts or posters. Hello, game changer.
Start your own business or just make yourself and some friends a few t-shirts or print some gig posters for your band. The best part is that each kit comes complete with every single thing you need to get started. If you run out of any of the supplies, the shop stocks inks and tools to keep your hobby going.
We love this idea so much we included it in our Luvocracy picks. Stay tuned for a contest to win a free DIY Print Shop Screen Printing Kit!
