Description You’re life is in turmoil. You have many potential opportunities ahead of you but don’t know how to take them. You are not alone. You have someone with you who can help. You also have 12 magic beans, each
No Sleeping | Soundscape of Pavilion Gardens, Brighton
Soundscape cutting through Brighton’s Pavilion Gardens on October 29th 2013. Starting at the Grand Parade Entrance, a small boy is reminded that there are rules in parks, mainly that you mustn’t sleep. We follow someone through the park stopping for
Dolls and Angels – Rilke on the problem of language
In his 4th Duino Elegy, Rilke gives a metaphoric statement of the problem of language and recommends a procedure for approaching as far toward the horizon of silence as he considers feasible. A prerequisite of “emptying out” is to be
The non-linear path to success
excerpt from The Non-Linear Path to Success Today has the potential to be one of those days that changes my life forever. For that matter so does every single day of most of our lives. It’s just a matter of what
An economy of human energy- Herbert spencer
Herbert Spencer argued that human development depended on a fixed amount of energy, and since women used their energy in reproductive function, they had little or no energy left for intellectual or political pursuits (ibid. 122). Further, Darwinian psychology accepted this
Game rule design
Guidelines taken from: How to write rules (without confusing people) by Scott Flavor first: If the game has a narrative tying the mechanics together, make that narrative clear immediately. The metaphors will be helpful in explaining and justifying the game’s
Bean Game documentation design
create a single game document broken into all above sections in a single wordpress page and add an image to it abstract variables and attributes with intention of creating a rules generator use javascript to create a game generator which
Acrylic Butter
A magazine article about a small scale manufacturer of an edible product called acrylic butter. The article shows two images. One top left shows a woman in jeans and shirt with sleeve rolled up and Wellington boots. She stands near
Exchanging values – compromise is inevitable
Saturday 19th October saw a few students from the MA Digital media arts course meeting up for Katya’s fabled strawberry cream cake and playing the bean game. This time there were 5 people playing. Cindy, Nana, Katya, her daugher Silva
An experience in the Aether: A hack of the hacker manifesto
Taking a chunk of A HACKER MANIFESTO [version 4.0] by McKenzie Wark readers were invited to create a collective text based on it. You can read final text here Returning to the world of collaborative online performance with Furtherfield after