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The Week Ahead: Go to Japan Edition 26 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
Participants in JAPIC's 2012-2013 Animation Artist in Residency Program engaging directly with Japanese animation culture. A notable opportunity came through the wire this week from Tokyo, where the ...
Red Burns, 1925-2013 26 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
We were deeply saddened to learn this weekend of the passing of Red Burns. On Saturday, NYU's ITP department announced her passing with a statement. "After living several full lives, one of which we w...
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links for 2008-09-10 lunchoverip.com 11 Sep 2008 | 10:01 am
The uncanny valley Nicolas Nova points to the "Uncanny Valley", the concept coined by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori to explain why almost-human-looking robots scare people more than mechanical-lo...
Check out a Gallery of Disturbing Ventriloquist Dummies fearnet.com 30 May 2012 | 03:00 am
There are fewer things scarier than inanimate objects designed to look like human beings. Dolls, statues, mannequins -- they're all variations on the uncanny valley that plagues motion-capture...
Uncanny Valley johannes-p-osterhoff.com 18 Jun 2011 | 03:37 am
Seminar at Merz Akademie about the Uncanny Valley of User Interface Design. Projects between abstraction and realism, symbols and images. The Uncanny Valley is a hypothesis concerning the emotional r...
Living Vicariously in Uncanny Valley. kinofist.blogspot.com 7 Oct 2008 | 01:08 pm
Colin Ledwith ‘It may be true that the uncanny is nothing else than a hidden, familiar thing that has undergone repression and then emerged from it.’ (1) The ‘uncanny’, which is the English approxim...
The Social Uncanny Valley blog.michaelleis.com 8 Nov 2011 | 06:08 am
Got to see an excellent talk this weekend called Facing Up to the Uncanny Valley. If you’re not familiar with the term, it is a feeling of creepyness you get when a computer created person gets betwee...
[En] C-Beams live at Cookies (Sept. 2011 / Berlin) boingpoumtchak.com 29 Dec 2011 | 05:06 am
2011 was a very good year for the C-Beams duet. As most of the Dresden boys involving into the trendy label (in the good way) Uncanny Valley (Jacob Korn, Cuthead, Credit 00, Stefan Lohse…) Stefan Menz...
El “Uncanny Valley” en el diseño y la publicidad. kailepdesign.wordpress.com 21 Aug 2012 | 10:36 pm
Antes de entrar al tema, rápidamente los meteré al contexto del uncanny valley: En pocas palabras es la percepción de rechazo o aceptación del ser humano a todo aquello que se quiera parecer… Read Mor...
Dead Island Riptide CGI trailer brings more of the same… geeky.ly 19 Sep 2012 | 10:33 pm
CGI? Check. Sombre music? Check. Tragic circumstances? Double Check. Eyes straight out of the Uncanny Valley? Oh Hell yeah that’s a check. Oh, and zombies? Check. Yes people that is the “If it ain’t b...
The Uncanny Valley of Parental Conservatism aadisht.net 2 Dec 2012 | 11:46 am
Parental conservatism (or paranoia) is not an on-off state between liberal and conservative, but a continuum from chilled out to liberal to conservative to batshit fucking insane. Parents can be less ...
BigDog dynamic manipulation: It throws a cement block! robotzeitgeist.com 2 Mar 2013 | 03:58 am
Boston Dynamics have amazed us more than once over the years having created some of the most incredible and, at times, scariest (not in the uncanny valley sense but more on the Terminator is real sens...
