Jac Depczyk
DeepCheque.org : an Applied Creativity (AC) site of my great project of 2018 - set up in 2022 and developing beautifully...   | updated: 2025-11-09
speck of dust we are riding : Earth by Voyager 1 - this last image transmitted sends a shiver down my spine...   | updated: 2025-11-09
Martin Amis : a very old site dedicated to this good writer, born in 1949, died in 2023, good to see some of the old web is still functioning (barely).   | updated: 2025-11-09
DALL-E 2 : robot-made "art" (?) has arrived.   | updated: 2023-01-07
Do You Love Me? : dancing robots from Boston Dynamics..   | updated: 2022-12-25
Dr Peter Scott-Morgan : disturbing and inspiring story of a cyborg   | updated: 2022-02-15
Photographer without a camera (Arte TV) : a great (if sketchy) portrait of Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, who reminds us that to photograph means simply to "write with light" -- no camera necessary ! (6 min)   | updated: 2021-12-03
digitising Rembrandt's Night Watch! : Rijksmuseum web site full of fascinating details.   | updated: 2020-05-24
Vivian Maier : lost and miraculously resurrected, via find of 100,000 photographs, to earn her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.   | updated: 2020-05-23
message from Larry Brilliant : the man who eradicated smallpox - about the current pandemic.   | updated: 2020-05-16
talk about Love : on TED - we define Love as sickness! a collaborative work of art is a better metaphor - no?   | updated: 2020-05-16
Cortazar - documentary : Argentinian innovator of late 20th century, now a classic   | updated: 2020-04-25
Mysterious state of FLOW : on TED: from the man who built the concept   | updated: 2020-01-05
TED - hacking a mouse's brain : still trying to work that one out...   | updated: 2019-10-13
Rare Historical Photos : this great site is a must for anyone with a brain and a pair of eyes (you also need an Internet connection).   | updated: 2019-09-22
2Cellos - live at Arena Pula (Croatia) 2013 (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) : my new friend, Santiago just sent me this... 2 cellos can do a lot ;-) 7.5 M views so far.   | updated: 2019-04-14
Quantum computing explained in 10 minutes : eh.. not really, but it's enough to blow to pieces all your preconceived ideas about the future...   | updated: 2019-01-23
Renzo Piano on TED : Beauty WILL save the world says Renzo -- lets hope so -- he is certainly helping. PS. found this nice quote on his company site: "Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom."   | updated: 2019-01-21
Elon Musk on TED Apr 2017 : talk with Elon Musk - "I just try not to be sad when thinking about future"...   | updated: 2019-01-17
Moshe Szyf on epigenetics : we begin to understand how the genes work, and, no, your destiny is not fixed.   | updated: 2019-01-08
Picasso : French site for a well known Spanish artist. i am rather disillusioned that it is a yet another Wordpress installation :-/ but check also picasso.com -- shows what can happen if you do not register a .com version of your name...   | updated: 2018-08-19
How a dragonfly brain is designed to kill : an astonishing lesson in DIY neuroscience reveals the dragonfly as a 97% accurate predator. all this with only 16 neurons.   | updated: 2018-08-17
DeepCheque.net : art project and system to support creativity with creativity   | updated: 2018-06-10
e-flux Journal : new online journal from NY art group e-flux   | updated: 2018-06-10
ZD News : general computer and IT industry news - useful and often entertaining   | updated: 2018-06-10
Wayne Clements : London visual artist and writer, creatively using IT technology   | updated: 2018-06-10
Adam Ben Ezra - Flamenco : astounding percussive double bass version -- music speaks one language, across all borders.   | updated: 2018-06-10
TED: How your brain hallucinates reality : Anil Seth explains how we predict ourselves into existence, includes the wonderful artificial hand experiment.   | updated: 2018-06-09
Jaron Lanier - how we need to remake the Internet : great talk from big Jaron - "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them"   | updated: 2018-06-09
Rise of Human-Computer cooperation : we badly need good news from the advancing robotisation front - and here are some! average humans able to use computers well beat chess champion on supercomputer - the key is low friction interface. brief, it's AI (Artifician Intelligence) vs IA (Intelligence Augumentation)   | updated: 2017-08-21
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us - by Bill Joy : this now classic vision of the future from the year 2000 remains valid, with most questions unanswered.   | updated: 2017-08-19
Alex Wissner TED talk about intelligence : Function of intelligence ? keep the maximum of options open.   | updated: 2017-07-29
This is the most dangerous time for our planet : a poignant message to human kind from one of a kind Stephen Hawking...   | updated: 2017-07-29
Project Gutenberg : 53,000 free ebooks, including many classics, now in public domain. "for human readers only" say the Terms of Use...   | updated: 2017-06-02
The Gift - short animation film : nice, clever and hugely successful 7'50'' animation from Chileans Julio Pot and Cecilia Baeriswyl   | updated: 2017-06-02
Music Notation : useful resource for music notation systems, from sheet music to MIDI and Braille   | updated: 2017-01-08
Canibaal Magazine : the fearsome literary magazine in Valencia, Spain, run by (Al)Chemist Ximo Rochera, with Jesús García Cívico (Aldo Alcota has been eaten). now in 7th issue continues to delight and inspire (in Spanish).   | updated: 2016-11-15
Mag Culture : small design studio and shop in central London working for and distributing over 350 of independent magazines from around the world.   | updated: 2016-10-19
Urban Dictionary : dictionary of urban slang and techno neologisms.   | updated: 2016-10-18
Casey Reas : computer artist   | updated: 2016-10-18
Majora Carter at TED : Greening the ghetto - caution - this is fast moving...   | updated: 2016-10-18
MIT Tech Review - latest breakthrough technologies : 10 breakthrough technologies of the 2013, according to MIT - include memory implants, additive manufacturing and supergrids - they got quite a few of them right. they do that every year, just change the date in the address.   | updated: 2016-10-18
Black Sifichi : American DJ and poet in Paris   | updated: 2016-10-17
Tupajumi : Artists' group, Amsterdam   | updated: 2010-01-20