The Internet is our archive. We are the archivists. Das Glasperlenspiel.
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"At times, it helps to think of writing as carpentry. That way, writers and editors can work from a plan and use tools stored on their workbench. You can borrow a writing tool at any time. And here's a secret: Unlike hammers, chisels, and rakes, writing tools never have to be returned. They can be cleaned, sharpened, and passed on."
Fifty Writing Tools - The workbench of Roy Peter Clark.
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Colour:
Color in Motion - An Animated and Interactive Experience of Color Communication and Color Symbolism.
Word Color - "A windows program that uses Google Image Search to determine the color of a word or string of words. It goes out there, retrieves the top 9 images and loops through all pixels, calculating the average hue, which is later converted to a color."
ColorCell - "An experimental website about colors. Colorcell wants to find the most popular color combinations;" genetic algorithms meet design.
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Digital Snapshot - "What does a moment look like? Can snapshots freeze a moment in time? ... [M]otion fragments were captured and rearranged in a new visual context via unconventional digital manipulations." This project explores the nature of time, context and motion.
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German style board games, like the Settlers of Catan, can be played online at the BrettspielWelt portal.
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Travel sketchbooks.
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