mentioned as a Nice Publication for March in Creative Review "the best in visual communication" here's IPad size selections. Drawn by Jack Forbes.





Ridley Scott, whose sophomore-try Alien and junior-stretch Blade Runner are distinctly adventurous masterpieces, almost returned to sci-fi with John Logan's version of I Am Legend. With a budget nearing $200 million, the film was scuttled and we know the end result. A Will Smith vehicle. We all had to at least watch it once.
Before the internet could be properly imbedded in our dreams archetype-ally, Mark Stefik edited a 1997 book that treated the Global Information Structure (aka Internet) as an inevitability of our mythic-knowledge-structures, like mandalas. Strange, I don't remember dreaming about anything like the internet before it appeared. A weird volume that overuses positivity so ruthlessly, you might think it's propaganda. The link below is the full book preview (the full book minus some pages). Begins with Vannevar Bush's prophetic essay on the I-way.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/internet-dreams-archetypes-myths-and-metaphors/oclc/60140991/viewport
"Alterations in the Game had a major impact on the functioning of the entire commune. Although it is true that in many ways the Game's brutal honesty upheld for a long time the highest standards of morality, when it became difficult for members to disagree with Chuck Dederich and other leaders in game formats a significant part of Synanon's system of checks and balances was lost."




Since 1977, UT Austin has hosted The Maya Meetings, a four day annual workshop of epigraphic research, where teams and individual students and professors descend upon the Mesoamerican Center and pour over their year of research and offer papers and discussions of what decipherment has occurred. Of course the workshop has overlapped with the SXSW festival, allowing the participants to study the Maya by day and absorb the cutting edge of music film and recently interactive by night. This year, however, the meetings have been moved to Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala, a sister facility of the Mesoamerican Center and will then alternate between there and Austin to ensure the linguistic distances between glyph and word are drawn closer together.
See you in Antigua!