This week marked Georges Méliès’ 150th birthday, and to celebrate, guest columnist Helen Papagiannis crowned him the " the patron saint of Augmented Reality (AR)" on our blog. Julius Von Bismark became CERN’s first artist-in-residence, it’ll be interesting to see the creative fruit him and his science mentors bear. Vintage computers managed a pretty amazing cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and we welcomed Jamie xx as a new Creator.Meanwhile, elsewhere on the web…· How do you make a live multichannel audiovisual mix of a bustling city of over 7 million people? Pretty much like this.· 42: Have scientists at CERN discovered the Higgs boson? Rumors are afoot that at a seminar next Tuesday they’ll reveal some details about this mysterious particle that is supposedly the missing piece of The Standard Model that explains the universe.· Algorhythm: Finnish artist Ville-Matias Heikkila is using the output of simple computer programs on an infinite loop to create music. And now he needs your help to investigate it further.· Nintendo’s other mascot, Shigeru Miyamoto, steps down. Or maybe not.· Pulp Fiction in chronological order, meaning the movie starts with the Christopher Walken scene. “Little man…” [via]· The good old days: Google+, Facebook and YouTube recreated by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as they might’ve looked circa 1997. “Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, running under Windows 95”.
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