Category Archives: Media Theory

The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

By Shana | Published: August 4, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

By Shana | Published: July 28, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson‘s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their [...]
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The Internet is the New Computer

By Shana | Published: July 10, 2009
Most denizens of the Internet often fail to realize that, compared to the many machines we run the Internet on, the Internet is very young.  To give a fair analogy- the Internet in human age could be the child or the grandchild of the first computer, the Zuse Z3, made in 1941.  The Internet, in [...]
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Machine/Human/Beauty- A series on interfaces, art, design, and humanity

By Shana | Published: July 8, 2009
Image via Wikipedia As an art student with a great interest in the human figure, I’ve recently come to recognize that there might be people who have not dwelled on what makes for compelling software and hardware objects. As both a beginner to the coding side of life, but at least an intermediate student in [...]
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