Week #18
How are you? Interactive articles on physics, virtual streamers, and NFTs.
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I'm a huge fan of these interactive and illustrated articles about physics and engineering by Bartosz Ciechanowski. He just published another one on Internal Combustion Engine. He also wrote about Camera and Lenses back in 2020.
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A Twitter thread about Miko, a virtual streamer on Twitch, lead me to this article on The Rise of Synthetic Media & Digital Creators. It is a case study on how emerging technologies are creating new formats of media and narrative interactions.
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My favorite description and a summary of the recent NFT debacle.
jacobgalapagos:
i dont know what an NFT is and im too afraid to ask
queersamus:
imagine if you went up to the mona lisa and you were like “i’d like to own this” and someone nearby went “give me 65 million dollars and i’ll burn down an unspecified amount of the amazon rainforest in order to give you this receipt of purchase” so you paid them and they went “here’s your receipt, thank you for your purchase” and went to an unmarked supply closet in the back of the museum and posted a handmade label inside it behind the brooms that said “mona lisa currently owned by jacobgalapagos” so if anyone wants to know who owns it they’d have to find this specific closet in this specific hallway and look behind the correct brooms. and you went “can i take the mona lisa home now?” and they went “oh god no are you stupid? you only bought the receipt that says you own it, you didn’t actually buy the mona lisa itself, you can’t take the real mona lisa you idiot. you CAN take this though.” and gave you the replica print in a cardboard tube that’s sold in the gift shop. also the person selling you the receipt of purchase has at no point in time ever owned the mona lisa.
unfortunately, if this doesn’t really make sense or seem like any logical person would be happy about this exchange, then you’ve understood it perfectly
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I learned from this amazing video that each Samba school from Rio has a different rhythm signature for the snare drum, and that they are derived from the school's Orishas. An article breaking down the differences.