incredible 3d sculpting and realtime texture painting software

this I must have! There's a Mac version coming out in 2009. Can't wait. This is exactly the 3d software I have been dreaming about (literally, last night, that's the reason I started googling).
The good stuff comes from autodesk (which has finally changed it's direction and starts making brilliant software for the mac at last). The name is MudBox.
It looks like good visualizers and illustrators, sculptors and architects finally have a change to make great 3d work without having to be insanely geeky and into war-fetish or science fiction kitsch.
Hip Hip!!!!

two cool links

25 lines
Shows examples of wat people can do with just 25 lines of code. It is actually a contest, but that's not what's interesting about it.

the bit 101 page. I referred to this before. It was here that I found the 25 lines page. The writer of this page is  now more into Iphone developing and it makes me extremely jeaulous to see what he can do with it. I love his simple and smart coding.

cooper

Cooper is debunking the myths about webdesign. Very good article. I know he's talking about me and my fellow imagemakers/designers. Yet he's so right.... and we're so wrong in thinking that the web is just another medium..
this food for thought.

good blog about dynamic infographics

coolinfographics is a very good blog about state of the art infographics

future feeder

A friend of mine just had a one week workshop in London and told me about a presentation of a system called korskakow (what's in a name). So called generative film editing software. Extremly interesting.
I found a reference to it on a blog that looks at least as interesting for this blog (which hasn't been refreshed all that much).

delillo

came across this blurb on amazon.
"For Mark Osteen, the most bracing and unsettling feature of DeLillo's
work is that, although his fiction may satirize cultural forms, it
never does so from a privileged position outside the culture. His work
brilliantly mimics the argots of the very phenomena it dissects:
violent thrillers and conspiracy theories, pop music, advertising,
science fiction, film, and television. As a result, DeLillo has been
read both as a denouncer and as a defender of contemporary culture; in
fact, Osteen argues, neither description is adequate. DeLillo's
dialogue with modern institutions, such as chemical companies, the CIA,
and the media, respects their power and ingenuity while criticizing
their dangerous consequences. Even as DeLillo borrows from their
discourses, he maintains a tenaciously opposing stance toward the
sources of collective power."

I think this is remarkably well put. And it explains an attitude/dialogue which I try to hold high.

coolness

no other word for it: cool. every link a journey in itself. Great great site. It contains so much stuff I am really interested in I don't know where to start.
Everyone Forever. Twinned by equally cool Advanced Beauty and Universal Everything