Does anyone else here watch Kirsten Dirksen’s YouTube channel? Tons of interviews with people carving off a better life from niches society has left.
Most recently for me, this lovely couple living a semi-monastic life filled with “appropriate technology”: https://youtu.be/XDpZ4jED6zA
In case you want to test whether your design/ui/etc. works for people with color vision deficiencies such as deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia, here are two Open Source tools that work for me on macOS 12:
Color Oracle - changes your entire screen for a moment
https://colororacle.org/
Sim Daltonism - changes the content of a rectengular lens
https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/
- uxnasm -- check!
- uxnemu --- check!
- orca.rom -- check!
- demo.orca -- check!
- operators, A,B,C,D..E S.. ok, time for some MIDI
- shim --- check, what...
3am, why is the sky so bright? this is meant to be nighttime!
===> zzzz
Recording the Wetland Project book or the real time politics of colours in a wetland soundscape #theStudio
8bit Textile/hand embroidered computer, Is this the perfect officially hardware platform for #uxn? @neauoire
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/the-power-and-provocation-of-art-1.6258742
Just what you need, if you’re a bit like me, i.e. Love water, work with water and value water — a panel on Indigenous Water Protocols.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/652230762
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Curator Candice Hopkins and artists Susan Blight, Bonnie Devine, Ange Loft, Dolleen Manning and Lisa Myers for Indigenous Water Protocols: Water Relations, an online conversation focused around the creation of protocols for how we might create art in relation to the water.
wow, incredible 💙 she designs with her nose because of chronic RSI :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAokWwilHGk
Laetiporus gilbertsonii, or Chicken of the woods.
"An orange edible shelf mushroom, known for its meaty texture and bright-orange-to-yellow colouring. It grows on varieties of hardwoods, including decorative plum and cherry trees in urban areas."
A positive rather than negative vision for the "Small Web" or even beyond (the "Web of Social Trust" maybe?)
I want to see free tools for creating low-cost decentralised digital communities which:
* are robust against cyber-attacks
* are robust against insincere influencers and well-funded corporate buyouts
* are robust against government crackdowns and social panics
* are robust against their own members abusing each other or being swept into hatreds and panics
* help people be smart and kind
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.