Omar Rizwan

I'm going to Taiwan and then Japan (August 6 → August 22nd, exact dates/locations TBD)

Anyone want to meet up / see the Folk Gadget?

Also happy to do a talk, lab visit, or just grab coffee with anyone! DM me here or send me an email at cwervo@folk.computer :-)

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when you get an ebook to follow a trail, it's like opening a new tab, you're pushing this thing onto your 'stack' temporarily and will probably pop it soon and not think about it further

(although obviously there are times where the book turns out to be compelling enough that you read at least large chunks of it)

I feel like 'downloading an ebook to read it' and 'downloading an ebook to follow some reference/citation/quote that I saw mentioned elsewhere' are completely different activities in my head

Since colors have been added over time, maybe the way to best understand this is as a _sequence_ of maps, like those showing state-formation in post-Soviet Europe

is this also kind of a chart of human vision and/or English-speaking culture, like what parts of color-space we are better at distinguishing and/or have more fine-grained names for

how do you find new video games to play? (indie/small/mid-size)

WikiCase energy wiki.c2.com?WikiCase

i just tried to download a sad Pikachu gif and it crashed my entire browser

Book opened to highly illustrative title page

Close up of highly-illustrative page of text

Close up image of the word "Christ" woven from silk

Close up image of silk fibers forming the letter C

Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.

i saw this show the other day www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/... where there's like 1 curve on 1 piece in the entire room and everything else is all straight edges

An architect designs a space for utility. It should be easy to navigate a building to your destination.

Generally level designers design space as a challenge to overcome. We clearly frame goals and landmarks but the path between is meandering.

it was also interesting to recall the pre-gadget gadgets that were just [my old iPhone + old plastic toy + battery pack + projector] ziptied together, and how that already had compelling usage patterns

(in some ways, we still haven't caught the gadget up to those!)

4. Folk understanding of computing tends to backdate the idea of "software" as hegemonic far earlier than it deserves. Pong was built out of hardwired transistor-transistor logic. People who made early arcade games came from audiovisual engineering world

www.pong-story.com/LAWN_TENNIS....

It's also got calendar volvelles!
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Perhaps also capture how glossy/matte the screen surface is?

then you could display a screenshot as a 3D diorama or mobile with the screen suspended in the air, surrounded by light sources

also finally got to put up the git repos for the gadget designs :-)

East Williamsburg Cinematic Universe

Omar and Andres demonstrating the folk Gadget by projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it.

Omar demonstrating the folk Gadget by aiming a triggered, handheld device and projecting light onto pieces of paper with code and tags printed on it.

Andrés and Omar at a podium presenting a slide with many pictures that says "What is Folk Computer?"

A shot of the crowd at the Recurse Center's Brooklyn hub. About 95 people are watching the talk.

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!‬

They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing.
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Watch the recording below:

this was also a nice reason to do another revision of the gadget (it is currently 80s Mac beige instead of pink) and fix various small software bugs with it :-)

If you ever thought, 'I'm done with the screen. Let me escape... but god, let me keep programming...' then you'll definitely want to watch @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social's talk on Folk Computer and the Folk Gadget:

pixel art of king kong in love on top of the empire state building, moments before being shot by an airplane. text at the top reads: "Games and Adaptations Showcase. August 8, 7pm at Boshi's Place"

for 8 weeks, we've been running a class on Games & Adaptations, discussing intertextuality in its many forms (adaptation, pastiche, parody, and more).

and now, we've made our own adaptation games! join us friday, august 8, for an evening of games in dialog with other works :) hope to see you there!

What about contagious baby yawning or laughing noises that babies would pick up on

webinar in real life -> realinar

Or screenshots should have headers that capture runtime state! Like taking a screenshot of a video should have a timestamp and url.

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