by natecooper | Sep 12, 2008 | aesthetics, art, culture, digital media, technology
Near Future Laboratory Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art (via kottke.org) Argg for yet another repost from Kottke but I feel this is very apropos as to my future graduate studies (fingers crossed) and anyway the feed is already in my Google...
by natecooper | Sep 11, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, media, technology, television
Just saw one of the best TED talk videos I’ve ever seen: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com. Basically tells a familiar story of the convergence of web and media that was covered in so many classes I TAed at UCSC and gives a glimpse of what...
by natecooper | Sep 7, 2008 | aesthetics, art, digital media, internet, nate, technology
I finally got around to fixing up natecooper.net. It didn’t take that long because I basically just tweaked a standard wordpress template. I thought I might want to build my own from scratch but this seemed like a better way to get a decent looking site up in a...
by natecooper | Aug 21, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, art, cities, culture, los angeles, new york, technology
natecooper.net is making it appear as if all I’ve been reading is cracked.com and BLDGBLOG. Could be worse I guess. BLDGBLOG’s discussion of “extreme signage” [link] does pique my interest. I don’t know if I fully agree with the...
by natecooper | Jul 31, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cities, cool, culture, movie reviews, movies
There is a scene (and mind you; spoilers are coming) in the new Batman movie that perfectly captures the zeitgeist of modern America. Two ferries are filled with passengers escaping from Gotham city. One ferry is filled with prisoners from the city jail and the other...
by natecooper | Jul 24, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, digital media, media, photography
Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father [link] A real novel approach to gallery navigation.