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Comics as Poetry: A Review

Comics as Poetry, a title by New Modern Press, marries space, text, medium, and time in a visual format for the lingering eye.

Blue, Green, Cyan, Ao, Midori—the rhetoric of color

Are colors a vastly overcomplicated language that we're only just beginning to understand? Can color rhetoric help us understand different cultures and languages?

sekuMoi Mecy: Preemptive fight against 3D scanning copyrights

Artist Plummer-Fernandez has a New Aesthetic piece of art that explores the looming fight with 3D scanning copyrights.

A single line of code: 10 PRINT

Ten collaborative authors. One vintage line of code. Together they transform the digital landscape, shifting from math to cultural analytics and ethics.

DigiEulogy: Crowd-sourcing Aaron Swartz’s digital memory

In what is perhaps the first crowdsourced eulogy/memorial, Carl Malamud, the Internet Archive, and others are remembering Aaron Swartz.

The Plenoptic Moment

The "shoot first, focus later" mantra of the Lytro stands in contrast to "shoot from the hip" photographer Cartier-Bresson. Or does it?

Twitter + Scientists + Honesty = #overlyhonestmethods

Over the past couple of days, scientists have been honest about research while showcasing nerd-humor on Twitter with #overlyhonestmethods.

The Rhetoric of Corporate Fraud

The FBI and Ernst & Young have mined fraudsters to find email rhetoric that shows deception and fraud; there's even a "top ten" list.

Quietly, purposefully feeding the literate: Intellectual Refuge

What does the digital publication Intellectual Refuge have in common with an 85-year-old master sushi chef? Well, you have to read to find out, silly.

Beyond the Scoreboard: A Review

Scholar and writer Braham Dabschek reviews Horrow and Swatek's "Beyond the Scoreboard," an inside look at the multi-billion dollar professional sport industry.

If book covers had 8 bit pixel art

Oliver Miller re-imagines some classic book covers as if they were done by video game designers in 1983.

Before/After photos show that nothing really changes

New interactivity with before/after historical slides can show just how little everything has changed.

Bots that seek out your textual emotion

New Aesthetics artist and programmer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has created Twitter bots to seek our textual emotion following a very simple rule...

This is not a normal tribute to Sendak

Sendak was a brooding, moody, bitchy man at times; he suffered and ailed and wept and laughed and created child-noir with real messages. I loved him for it.

And So It Goes: A Review

Scholar and author Braham Dabscheck reviews Charles Shield's "And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life."