Rob Walker
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Observed|Recommended Books
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Rob Walker recommendeds Dave Hickey's "Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy".
Rob Walker|Essays
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise
The Bizarro Story Exercise: The value in thinking hard about the worst.
Rob Walker|Essays
The Infrastructure of the Cloud
On the material structures we depend on to deliver us the immaterial digital world.
Rob Walker|Essays
Managing Digital Durability
Learning to manage the disconcerting durability of digital objects.
Rob Walker|Essays
Assignment Creativity
A chaotic and entertaining collection addresses "the art of the art assignment."
Observed|Recommended Books
Alien Phenomenology: Or, What It's Like To Be A Thing
Recommended Book: Rob Walker recommends Alien Phenomenology: Or, What It's Like To Be A Thing by Ian Bogost.
Rob Walker|Essays
Dancing About Ruins
Dancing about ruins: Can debris, detritus, junk, be useful creative material?
Rob Walker|Essays
Where We Work
The computer-screen desktop, considered as a category of work space.
Rob Walker|Essays
What To Make Of It? A Contest.
Inventing meaning for junk, through a Studio360 and Significant Objects story competition.
Rob Walker|Essays
"Screenshots of Despair"
Considering practica interactive-design elements as plaintive expressions of isolation.
Rob Walker|Essays
Stealth Iconography: Pinwheel of Death
Apple's "pinwheel of death" of stealth icon of machinery having a problem.
Rob Walker|Essays
The Ekphrasis-y Critique
Further thoughts on "dancing about architecture."