Tag Archives: memory
A short by Ed Bulmer in which Frank recalls an awkward attempt at workplace humour.
The story was inspired by this podcast episode in which a neuroscientist explains that “every time you revisit a memory, the more inaccurate it becomes; each time becoming further distorted by your perception of events rather what actually happened”.
An evocative, evanescent short by Johan Primiano in which memories of a family pet emerge and evaporate – traced in graphite.
Recreating ubiquitous corporate logos from memory.
Worst top left, best bottom right.
Or vice versa.
MORE: Branded In Memory
Funny Book
at
Force Quit
at
Sarah Jeong’s comprehensive geeknalysis of the storage formats of Star Wars. To wit:
Upon reviewing the Star Wars canon of movies (no animated films or shows, and no Expanded Universe content, which now exists in a purgatory of maybe-canon), it’s become clear to me that that the galaxy is crippled by an abundance of disk formats, with all of the accompanying interoperability issues that we see on our own planet. Every time the Rebel Alliance changes bases, they must be lugging around a spaceship full of drives, both new and obsolete, to read every possible format.
READ ON: (Warning: Spoilers) From Tape Drives To Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Sarah Jeong, Motherboard)
Impossycles
at
For several years now, Italian designer Gianluca Gimini has been inviting freinds and strangers to draw bicycles from memory.
He ponders the bikes in the drawings, then he renders them, as if they were real.
MORE: Velocipedia
A multi award-winning short by UK filmmaker Spencer Brown that tells the surreal tale (narrated in rhyme by the mighty Stephen Berkoff) of a boy who is born with the ability to record every instant of his life but can’t look back on any of it.
Lost Keys
at
An exhibit at the 2015 Venice Art Biennale by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota featuring 50,000 keys (donated by the public) suspended from a vast interlaced network of red threads over two boats.
It explores the notion of memory. But you knew that.