Multiplatform social drawing tool.
VR is an isolating experience so the idea of using it to bring people together is really promising.
SculpTogether lets users on all platforms (GearVR, Rift, Vive, 2D) make 3D drawings and simple sculptures together. Users have hundreds of colors and hues to create with as they draw ribbons in mid-air and place primitive shapes in whatever orientation they wish.
“A compilation of the brightest outbursts seen at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta’s Osiris (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System ) narrow-angle camera and navigation camera between July and September 2015. After nearly two years apart, Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft will join its stranded robot probe Philae on 30 September on the icy surface of the comet.”
“No, Homer, very few cartoons go out live, it’s a terrible strain on the animator’s wrist.”
Further to my experimenting in Instagram Stories, I fired up the old Snapchat account and am now posting (?) there regularly.
I’m trying to keep the two streams populate with separate content, and indeed, it is already very clear the difference in form. Instagram video quality is higher, so animation (well, my kind of animation anyway) does break up so badly in the compression. Also Instagram doesn’t massively foreground when you have loaded something from the camera roll, any manipulated or animated video gets put in a frame in Snapchat.
Follow me on Snapchat and Instagram, and see what you think.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do. If what you really love to read is y, it might be hard for you to write x.
Exercising is a good analogy for writing. If you’re not used to exercising you want to avoid it forever. If you’re used to it, it feels uncomfortable and strange not to. No matter where you are in your writing career, the same is true for writing. Even fifteen minutes a day will keep you in the habit.
You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.
– Jennifer Egan – Why We Write
via Brain Pickings
Ballard formed the ‘novel’ from scientific and technical material cut from professional literature such as Chemical and Engineering News (Ballard then worked for the journal of the Society of Chemical Industry). Letters, words and sentence fragments are pasted onto backing sheets with glue. Their design visually references everyday media, with headlines, body text and double-page spreads suggesting a magazine layout. Originally Ballard planned to display the work on billboards, as if it was a public advertisement.
From the British Library.
Found via @derekbeaulieu & @johnbrissenden.
I was extremely honoured to have my drawings mentioned in this Susannah Breslin piece on self negotiation and naming one’s inner critics:
“There’s Hypochron, whose superpower is overreacting to everything and also catastrophizing. Let’s not forget Lay-Ze-Bonez, which is quick to pronounce any lag in productivity a testament to one’s laziness. And, finally, we’ve got I’m Thirsty. I’m Thirsty is a head-only it-thing that lives at the bottom of a glass that is barely filled with water. It’s always thirsty. Despite the water. I hope you enjoyed meeting my new friends! It’s actually been sort of interesting and effective to think of the voices in this way. It makes them easier to be rational in relationship to. Let’s face it, these guys suck. As Ury writes: ‘Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.’ “
The Dinner Party, Susannah Breslin
Reminder: “War of Words: Soldier Poets of the Somme” for which we made the poetry animations, repeated BBC4 9pm Sunday 3rd July in commemoration of #somme100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pw01r
Spring ended yesterday.
Here’s what I listened to.
Most comprehensively in Spotify and Whyd, but also partially in SoundCloud and YouTube, because you always need a back up.
Paul Greer 
