 |  | John Maeda Speaks On RISD's Backlash Against His Cyber-Style Leadership | | Linda Tischler | | In December 2007, the board of the 134-year-old Rhode Island School of Design made a bold choice, hiring as its new president John Maeda -- digital designer, former associate director of research for the MIT Media Lab, introspective iconoclast with little experience in administration or fundraising. "I was the high-risk candidate," he acknowledged the following July, as we strolled the streets of Providence's College Hill on a blistering hot day. "But I'm not worried about getting fired. I could get another job. If you have no fear, no one has power over you." His plan, therefore, was not to lead as if he were running for reelection. "My instinct is just to do what RISD needs."  Read more |  | | | Far Better Than 3-D: Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment | | John Pavlus | | You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. That said, PopTart Cat is not exactly on par with Thelonious Monk. But photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg may have finally found a way to elevate the animated GIF to a level approaching fine art, with their "cinemagraphs" -- elegant, subtly animated creations that are "something more than a photo but less than a video." Here's one of my favorites: Read more |  | | | WVIL, A Glimpse At The Future Of Photography After Cameras Die [Video] | | John Pavlus | | As digital cameras have outgrown their bulky origins and continued to miniaturize, some photographers and cinematographers joke that soon the "camera" itself will disappear, leaving just a lens with a chip and a screen on the back of it. Read more |  | | | Sign Of The Times: One Button Turns This House Into A Concrete Fortress [Slideshow] | | Suzanne LaBarre | | There's security, and then there's paranoia. The Safe House outside Warsaw, in Poland, appears to fall decisively into the latter category. It looks all bright and airy -- almost Miesian, at first blush. But in an instant, the whole thing can mutate, Transformer-style, into an impenetrable concrete fortress that makes your local survivalist's panic room look like Ken Kesey's bus. Read more |  | | | Insanely Complex Digital Sculpture Generates 10,000 Unique Viewpoints [Slideshow] | | Suzanne LaBarre | | Scanning the slideshow above, you'd be forgiven for mistaking all those gorgeous abstract images for oil on canvas -- or, at minimum, the handiwork of someone unusually deft with the paint-bucket tool in Kid Pix. Read more | | CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE   |
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