September 2009

Week 14/15: The spine tingler

September 12, 2009

What if the scary book you were reading could really shock you? This piece of biofeedback-based experimental book art detects the rising fear or excitement in a reader and then amplifies it, by causing tingling in the hands through to mild electric shocks. This effect is created by a wrap-around book cover that can sense [...]

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Week 13: The etolemur

September 9, 2009

This one is just for fun. I had an electric razor which had died and wasn’t really repairable. After having a hard time breaking inside the thing, I managed to dissect it completely and have reformed the parts into what I am calling my etolemur, because of a very vague resemblance to an otolemur. I [...]

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Week 12: What is a magazine?

September 7, 2009

An essay for this entry that starts as follows and continues at Cathemeral Thinking: As I work toward launching a new magazine, I am contemplating a question that seems to have an obvious answer to many people, but is definitely contentious, and for which there is no real consensus. Although finding a concrete answer might [...]

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What is a magazine?

September 6, 2009

An exploration of the essence of magazines reveals that their defining characteristics have more to do with how they represent and enable communities rather than any physical or publishing characteristic.

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