Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
When I was looking for my old cartoon portraits, I ran across these. Ah! Nostalgia.
Long ago and far away when I used MySpace and not Facebook, I only ever had cartoon portraits of myself in my photo albums. I was recently told that these were missed, so I pulled them out of obscurity (they are up on the Art page too).
I am absolutely fascinated by eyewear that is designed to augment our most perfect natural abilities to visually process the world around us. I have much less than perfect natural vision abilities. Some of my most stressful dreams have something to do with driving a speeding car without my glasses. I fantasize about waking up some day without needing to put corrective lenses on. I’m horribly envious of 20/20 vision. And thus, when frolicking through science journals, I am helplessly captivated by contacts and glasses that do even more than ‘fix’ vision.
For instance, over on NewScientist (back in 2011 – hello GReader starred list) there are glasses that read the body language and expression of the person you are interacting with and give you clues about the best way to proceed in your conversation. And then on BBC News, animal trials are wrapping up for contacts that stream emails and text messages directly over our vision of the world around us. I imagine a blending of our physical and online existences. I imagine not knowing which is which until the glasses are off. It makes me think of the anime Dennō Coil. It’s a really good anime. I have to watch it through again. And lest you think my mind is not just a repetitive circle, I am going to dig up some posts from the old Bean on exactly the same topic. After the…Continue reading little obsessions
is fun, really.
In a pile of otherwise unimpressive sketches I found this. It’s pretty cute if I do say so myself.
this doodle was partially colored in my folder for a very very very very long time.