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new look for natecooper.net

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...

Christopher Alexander – Wikipedia

by natecooper | Aug 22, 2008 | architecture, cities, cool, culture, technology

Heard a podcast discussing the ideas of Christopher Alexander [link] and started digging around for a wikipedia entry. It’s surprising how little there is on this considering his ideas led directly to the development of wikipedia. The most descriptive article...

BLDGBLOG: The “Endless Accident Events” of Los Angeles

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...

What I’m Reading at 1 A.M.

by natecooper | Jul 25, 2008 | aesthetics, digital media, Science, technology

Anti-aliasing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [link] Don’t ask why. The reasons are far too complex for me to understand.

Gamucci

by natecooper | Jun 26, 2008 | cool, culture, media, movies, technology

I think this is my favorite video this week.

SporeVote

by natecooper | Jun 20, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology

Since the release of the Spore Creature Creator [link] EA is starting the build up to the official release. One novel and funny idea is Spore Vote [link]. Get a bunch of B-list celebs to design creatures and use their creations to promote your product. There’s...