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Memex Video

The following video is a simulation of Bush’s memex built by Dynamic Diagrams in 1995:

January 26th, 2010 | Category: History, Systems | Leave a comment

Vannevar Bush Goes Green

Mashable brings us news of Wikia Green that hopes to build
the best resource for citizens of the Earth to learn about the environment and how to live a more sustainable life.
In light of our intro discussion of the memex, how might this be another example of knowledge collection and search? Here’s from the identity [...]

September 9th, 2008 | Category: History, Journal Ideas, Networks | Leave a comment

Macho World

Gonzalo Frasca on Princess Peach
n Mario’s universe, Princess Peach – formerly known as Princess Toadstool in Western countries until 1996 – has always played the damsel in distress role. Until now, all she did was wait until Mario showed up and rescued her. Arguably, that is not a very active role but, to be fair [...]

April 14th, 2007 | Category: History, Narrative | Leave a comment

Interview with Walter Murch

Geoff Manaugh of BLGBLOG has a nice interview with Walter Murch, referred to by John Timmons in class in our discussions of editing.
As it happens, Murch’s interests go far beyond the reach of cinema, encompassing architecture, astronomy, music theory, and mathematics – among an almost impossibly broad range of other subjects.

April 7th, 2007 | Category: Architecture, Film, History, Principles | Leave a comment

Hypertext, Narrative, and Baseball

Mark Bernstein is always interesting on the subject of hypertext. In this essay, Hypertext Narrative and Baseball, he makes observations on the relationship between baseball and certain structural elements of hypertext:

To watch baseball well demands an eye for montage, for many things are always happening or about to happen. The pitcher eyes the runner leading [...]

March 16th, 2007 | Category: History, Hypertext, Narrative | Leave a comment

More on Windows

Here’s a nice entry provided by the journal Vectors out of the University of Southern California.
The specific work is Anne Friedberg and Erik Loyer’s The Virtual Window Interactive, a “windowed” work that explores the nature of framed space and frames that mediate experience, much as we experimented with in class on the 15th of February.
Here’s [...]

February 16th, 2007 | Category: History, Journal Ideas, Narrative, Principles | Leave a comment

EPIC 2014 – A “What If” for the future.

A history lesson taken to a futuristic extreme. Is this possible?
Thanks, once again, to Susan Gibb for the link.

February 15th, 2007 | Category: Commerce, Futures, History, Journal Ideas, Principles, Trends | Leave a comment

On Machines

A keeper for transitions, hypertextuality, and writerly space. Thanks to Susan Gibb of Spinning.

February 5th, 2007 | Category: History, Hypertext, Principles | Leave a comment