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  • 100 views of summertime

    Is George Gershwin’s “Summertime” the Mount Fuji of music covers? Looking for a cover I heard on the radio this morning, I stumbled on this blog that lists a hundred versions of the song. Apart from Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson or Ray Charles, I didn’t expect to find the Doors, R.E.M. or Morcheeba…

  • Finally Facebook implements the “dislike”… but it’s complicated

    Since all my likes are handled by the [loveMachine], I found myself looking for other things to do on Facebook. That’s when I stumbled on the (hidden) “dislike” function. Since it’s a long awaited feature, I must warn you that it’s not as easy as the “like”. It requires at least 3 clicks, works only…

  • No alarms & no surprises

    Bring down the government They don’t, they don’t speak for us Cover of Radiohead by Regina Spektor.

  • Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 from social media

    In Leipzig for a couple of days, attending the Libre Graphics Meeting. It’s a yearly gathering of coders, users, developpers and designers of free software, all revolving around graphic design and other visually related free culture projects. For those attending or not, I’ve created a page that collects all (or most of) the tweets, pics,…

  • Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine

    A lot more great stuff like this on Richard Cheese’s soundcloud.

  • Blender-Brussels “lookback” workshop

    Last saturday, we had our monthly Blender BPY/BGE workshop where we explore creative coding through the use of Python in the context of Blender. This time, the workshop was called “Blender lookback“, mocking the famous “Facebook lookback”. The goal was to explore the Blender video sequencer to automate the creation of video clips based on…

  • 30.000 likes later

    Since all we can see on Facebook is just profiles, I thought I’d share, in the form of a gallery, some of the “unusual” ones the [loveMachine] has brought me to interact with. This is a gallery of caricatures, of course. It doesn’t point to anyone in particular, although you might recognize a friend or…

  • You should not post things that you don’t want to be liked

    This may seem obvious and biased, since it might only apply on Facebook. We do have different degrees of intimacy with our relations. Yet another obvious statement. But on social media, this seems to be totally ignored or, at least, not under our responsibility anymore. On Facebook, we have close friends, lovers, ex-lovers, colleagues and…

  • Master Blaster #CoverTuesday

    La machine à tube, Stevie Wonder, publie l’originale en 1980, en hommage à Bob. Ici, version épurée par Jehro.

  • Autonomous #Drawing Machines by Echo Yang

    So simple yet so joyful. More excellent work on his website: Echo Yang

  • SunShame #CoverTuesday

    Already posted a cover of Such a shame. But this one is so different in tone, I could not resist. video source

  • Plotclock

    A clock that plots time. ᔥlaughingsquid.