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The eagerly awaited SVK by BERG, Warren Ellis and Matt Brooker is a comic that lets you read the character’s minds with the SVK Object - a black light torch.
“It’s a story about cities, technology and surveillance, mixed with human themes of the power, corruption and lies that lurk in the data-smog of our near-future.”
You can buy it now.
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The Long Good Read newspaper is the physical output of Dan Catt’s magical codes that look for long articles on The Guardian’s website and filter them by popularity to make a website.
I think it’s great. He says an alternative title could be “Things Probably Worth Reading as Filtered by Everyone Else, Weekly“.
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Wiggle Table by Tom Foulsham vibrates words and stories in to drawings.
News stories streaming in from the internet or stories typed by someone sat inside are translated into the vibration alphabet.
These 26 alphabetical vibrations tangle stories inside drawings
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“PhoneQi for iPhone lets you clip, save and share any text you see around you, especially in newspapers and magazines, as long as the text is publicly available online. Only about 6 words are needed on average to locate the text you are looking at among all the documents ever created.”
Great idea. I’ve tried it out and it works perfectly! I had no idea this app existed until tonight and I’m very happy it does. This concept is very similar to one I wanted to explore as part of a lightning talk on papercomp that I submitted to UXLX. They didn’t accept my talk, but my friend Oli Shaw will be talking about a few subjects we’ve been discussing on and off for the last year or so. I believe he’s going to be discussing Magic as a metaphor and the pros/cons of seamlessness vs seamfulness in services. Neither are new subjects in relation to ubicomp but I’m sure he’ll put a good spin on them.
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These are Patterns by Roberto Christen is a small newspaper featuring 12 patterns generated using a simple Processing sketch that exploits repetition and randomness - producing a variety of effects using a limited set of line types.
Fantastic use of newspaperclub.
Love it. Want one!
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If you love Instapaper like I do you’ll probably be interested to see what Emmet Connolly has done with Things I Would Rather Read On Paper.
If you don’t know what Instapaper is I think you should probably give it a go. It’s one of the most genuinely useful online tools I can think of.
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I recently discovered the fantastic It’s Nice That website and almost instantly decided to buy their magazine. Shortly after I paid for it I received an email from them explaining that due to the post strike there might be a problem getting it out to me on time and that they were really sorry but they’d do what they could.
I noticed that the address in the footer of the email was on Rivington Street which is just round the corner from where I work so I replied to their email saying I could pop round and pick it up if that was ok with them.
I got a reply that afternoon saying of course it’d be ok and that they’d be there for about lunchtime the next day.
So at lunchtime the other day I nipped out, went to their studio and picked up my copy of It’s Nice That 2. How nice is that? It may not seem like much but suddenly my relationship with them is personal. It doesn’t take much does it? It’s a shame they’d run out of issue 1 because I’d have bought it there and then.
I love it. I really do. Everything about it is excellent, from the stock it’s printed on to the type and layout to the content itself. I really can’t recommend it enough. Especially as they seem like really nice people.
