stretch your limbs. attribution needs to be found for this beautiful image. I just found it today. It reinforces for me the potential beauty we might be able to achieve through a large scale implementation of Sow/Reap. Read more →
Category: SWEAT 3.0
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André Blyth’s game is the cover for the first issue of a new zine about Art and Games and Not Games! tumblr_nk5ancSZJT1u2eavfo1_500.jpg 500×709 pixels. Read more →
Interview: Sony Announces End of CCD Sensor Production – Allied Vision Technologies
We have been looking at a variety of industrial IR cameras as potential replacements for the Kinect 1.0 in Sow/Reap. The consumer technologies have become so unstable as to make them reliable only for short projects. Longer term projects, those with years long development times, or those that aspire to be enduring once complete, will need material resources that are… Read more →
SWEAT | Sow/Reap “Demake”
Use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to plant poppy seeds.
The Men Who Haunted Me as a Child in Colombia – NYTimes.com
A long-read editorial in the New York times about the FARC, the 50 years long insurgency in Colombia, and the promise (or hope) for a peace that can last. The insurgency has been fought over economic inequality, and has been funded — in part — by the production and trade of narcotics. The lion’s share of demand for these narcotics… Read more →
Currents 2015 New Media Festival
We have submitted Sow/Reap for consideration to the Currents 2015 New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Fingers crossed!!!! Our materials can be found on our Currents 2015 Submission page Read more →
Don’t visit the poppies at the Tower of London, public told – Telegraph
Today in world news about poppies: The public have been urged to cancel planned visits to the Tower of London to visit the sea of red poppies placed in memory of Britain’s war dead because the site is becoming overcrowded. via Don’t visit the poppies at the Tower of London, public told – Telegraph. Read more →
US watchdog questions billions spent on ending Afghan poppy production | Circa News
A recent news item on Circa follows up on the (in)effectiveness of spending to eradicate poppy agriculture in Aphganistan. Billions spent and growth has expanded. “In past years, surges in opium poppy cultivation have been met by a coordinated response from the U.S. government and coalition partners… The recent record-high level of poppy cultivation calls into question the long-term effectiveness… Read more →
The New Heroin Epidemic – The Atlantic
Special report from The Atlantic: More recently, heroin has taken root here after authorities cracked down on unscrupulous doctors who were overprescribing pain meds, sending addicts searching elsewhere for a similar high. In West Virginia, heroin-overdose deaths have tripled over the past five years, while prescription-painkiller deaths have dipped slightly. There were many contributing factors, not the least of which… Read more →
US heroin overdose deaths more than double in two years | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour
keeping an eye on statistics, and potential popular understanding of the metaphor we are using in Sow/Reap: Deaths caused by heroin overdoses more than doubled between 2010 to 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. In a report released Friday, a study conducted in 28 states across the U.S. showed heroin overdoses increasing from 1,779 in 2010 to… Read more →