"Seen at Camp Imgur" by @jacksmithiv
"Critics" by jacksmithiv, portrait of Alana Martinez and Nate Freeman reading On Kawara at the Guggenheim
"Morning Crossword" by jacksmithiv, portrait of Observer writer/editor Matthew Kassel
"The Wave" by jacksmithiv For those of us who are tech critics, there's this internal debate over whether or not social media accelerates the cause of social justice. Very difficult to parse, with strong advocates for both opinions.
When I first spoke with Bitcoin Baron, he was a small-time hacker, haphazardly targeting small town and police forces with DDoS attacks. But once we dug a little further, we found a deeply disturbed, totally inept criminal who had stabbed his father, attacked a children’s hospital and, eventually, fell into the hands of law enforcement.
Read the whole story here.
"FireFireFire" by @jacksmithiv, a portrait of Heather Parker.
When I got home that night, I popped open the app, opened a fresh pack of menthols, propped up my phone on top of its charger and started a new broadcast called “Journalist smokes in a room, talk to me about the media, tech, other bullshit.” My feed started filling with little questions about everything from my appearance to Apple Watches to self-driving cars. My schtick was this: answer every question honestly and as fast as possible.
I am addicted to letting thousands of people ask me anything they want while I smoke cigarettes.
"Booty Had Me Like" by jacksmithiv
When I was about 13 years old, I was among the small army of white boys who wanted to be a game developer.
Taking a deep dive into the best indie game art, and why so many small houses are becoming the pack-leaders in their space, all because of great aesthetics.
Dope profile of Liam Young in Fast Company.
Imagine a world where Samsung built and owned your residential building, where "patriotism" defined your allegiance to your preferred cell phone manufacturer, not your country, and bringing a corporate rival's product into your apartment could be grounds for eviction. This is one of the bleak urban environments depicted in self-described speculative architect Liam Young's series "New City," a collection of futuristic animations inspired by various scenarios of technopocalypse.
"Where some people see publicity stunts and bad legislation, Mr. Cornblatt sees Cirque du Solei, nationally syndicated shows, paintball guns, nets, leagues, race tracks, pyrotechnics, lights, cameras, action."
An inside look at Game of Drones and the Aerial Sports League—behind the scenes, and how it all got started:
Three or four years ago, Mr. Cornblatt and his friends were in a barn drinking beers and flying drones around when someone gets the idea to make them fight—whoever has the drone that hits ground the most loses. They started meeting on Friday nights in that same barn to send drones crashing into each other, mounting weapons, nets and other gladiatorial flourishes. What will no doubt someday be referred to as “the earliest set of drone fighting rules” was drafted and Flight Club was born.
Have 4 minutes of free time? Watch this. Carl Sagan, Moby Dick, wanderlust, outer space.
"Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Silently, they orbit the sun. Waiting." -Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan on flatlands and tesseracts.
So you see, while we cannot see the world of four dimensions, we can certainly think about it perfectly well