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What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life?

newyorker.com

the immediately sharable dressing-room selfies, appetizer snapshots, and view-from-the-hotel-balcony landscapes that aren’t meant to be art works but are, instead, “about developing and conveying your view, your experience, your imagination in the now.”

Murmuring Minds

studiodrift.com
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Murmuring Minds is an interactive performance installation that explores the intricate patterns governing movement and process. Within a designated space, sixty autonomously-moving rectangular blocks act as a swarm executing specific behaviours.

La Sentinelle

marine.st
Embroidery of an old game scene
Embroidery of an old game scene
Embroidery of an old game scene

Each needlepoint represents a scene from the video game The Sentinel (1986) created by Geoff Crammond—initially for BBC Micro. Each scene is illuminated by a unique color duo from the game’s eight-shade palette, here in the ZX Spectrum version—ported by Mike Follin.

The exact transfer of the game screens’ pixels onto the embroidery canvas grid, combined with the airy wool material, produces a luminous effect whose precision and shimmer are reminiscent of the cathode-ray screen.