Justin Kemp, PsuedoEvent, 2008
The Best of the Web 2008 Contributor’s Choice concludes today as we publish the remaining two segments. The series features the year’s best links as defined by some of my favorite professionals on the web. Part One, Two Three, Four, Five and Six were published Monday through Thursday of this week and features the following invitees.
Liam McEneaney – comedian, citizen
Camille Paloque-Bergès, PHD candidate and Teaching Assistant in Information Science and Communication at the Laboratoire Paragraphe
Kevin Bewersdorf, artist
John Michael Boling, internet user / artist / jmb
Magda Sawon, Owner of Postmasters Gallery New York
Kari Altmann, artist
Ceci Moss, Rhizome Senior Editor and Blogger
Tom Moody, artist
Javier Morales, artist
Marcin Ramocki, Artist/filmmaker
Jon Williams, Free software developer
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Video, MoMA
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Meet Marcin Ramocki, Jon Williams, and Barbara London!
Marcin Ramocki, Artist/filmmaker
- http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/#mapjack, Joe McKay, MapJack car and Google Street view van
- http://www.harmvandendorpel.com/whiterectangle.htm, Harm van den Dorpel, White Rectangle
- http://sakurakoshimizu.blogspot.com/, Sakurako Shimizu, Waveform Jewelry
- http://www.spiritsurfers.net/monastery/?p=452, Paul Slocum, Transformer Fire
- http://www.jessiestead.com/club_desktop.html, Jessie Stead, Club Desktop
- http://privatecirculation.com/?p=78, Lance Wakeling/Private Circulation, Untitled Animated Gif
Jon Williams, Free software developer
In no particular order:
- http://home.wildit.net.au/hellohelloben/fruit.html, Brett Graham’s Homepage / Fruit Mystery. Although the rest of his webpage is similarly humorous and visually appealing, the excellent flash game “Fruit Mystery” will have you walking on sunshine as you feed zoo animals various foods.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/HowIQuitCrack HowIQuitCrack YouTube Channel
- http://socialfiction.org/?n=1256 SocialFiction.org‘s, Gilgamesh for Apes. A translation of the Sumerian tale into a lexigraph-based language targeted at Chimps.
- http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/ Telstar Logistics Blog. SF-centric blog about retrofuturism, Cold War technology, transit and design.
- http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes Spore Prototypes. Spore was a huge disappointment despite all the cool stuff going on under the hood, a generative soundtrack from Brian Eno and amazing creature modeling work. I found EA’s page of Prototypes for Spore way more fun than the actual game, which seems to have lost Will Wright’s usual depth and could only appeal to children.
- http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ Dwarf Fortress. Spore may have sucked but this strategy game inspired by the Nethack aesthetic/gameplay is one of the coolest strategy games in a long time.
- http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/ Hipster Runoff
Where else would you see this video?
Brokencyde – Freaxxx (Music Video) from Eat Cake Films on Vimeo.
- http://www.github.com/ GitHub. GitHub has exploded in 2008, becoming the de facto host for innovative software projects on the web (most famously, Ruby on Rails). The real power of the site was the integration of social features familiar to today’s users. A few cool projects to look at: Archaeopteryx, a midi DJing platform in Ruby; The Cloud Player , a web-based music playlist in Python, and YUI , Yahoo!’s Web User interface stuff. And of course, you can check out my stuff.
- http://arianeb.com/dategame.htm Virtually Date Ariane. This is probably NSFW but go explore a semi-pornographic animated gif Choose Your Own Adventure book starring a Second Life avatar.
- Having to use an online DTMF generator to navigate a voicemail tree. Holding Petra‘s Sidekick (non-Tony Hawk) up to a computer speaker brought back fond memories of attempting to use BlueBEEP in middle school. Imminent death of the telephone predicted.
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Video, MoMA
- www.exonemo.com, Young, Tokyo-based artist-duo
- http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ jodi—still a favorite
- http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/ Delhi-based, media collective with social concerns
- http://www.vertexlist.net/ Interesting gallery site
- http://www.caeno.org/newagain Good conference site: “What Was Old Is New Again”
- www.universaleverything.com Informative with navigate-able layout
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