Author Archives: Jonathan Beilin

ShitPaint beta release

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: February 26, 2010

SHITPAINT BETA Python script + Processing sketch to paint with a palette of Google Image Search results in the primary colors as well as some shades and some neons. More documentation included with the bundle. Low-fi/digital-punk/whatever. Thanks to Catherine Musinsky, Times New Viking, and Mafia-Hunt for inspiration. Download ShitPaint beta

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E-mail Poetry

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: January 20, 2010

This piece was sculpted out of a long email thread I had with a close friend. >                 reveals >                 >         >                 > > […]

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Request For An Honest Interrogation of Games – Counterpoint to Jon Radoff

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: December 11, 2009

Jon Radoff’s recent defense of games, “Six Wonderful Things About Games” managed to raise my hackles. In this article, he rehashes a number of contrarian, Everything Bad Is Good For You type assertions (which book is indeed cited in the original post) regarding the theoretical benefits of games: they make people smarter, inspire curiosity, build […]

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Rebalancing Your Media Diet

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: December 10, 2009

Wired’s July issue featured a problematic infographic based on the FDA’s food pyramid, Wired’s infographic instead focusing on one’s media intake. It is reproduced below:

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On Wolfram Alpha and the Singularity

By Jonathan Beilin | Published: June 10, 2009

Although Wolfram Alpha (WA) entered the tech ideaspace as a revolutionary new tool, it is the latest iteration of a solution to an old problem  –  the process of question answering (think ask.com), a part of the larger field of information retrieval (think Google).

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