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Penn Jillette | Magician | Big Think - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 04 Sep 11
     
    Want to know what Penn Jillette thinks the future of magic will be like? He says that David Blaine's street magic was a huge shift in practice. Don't have real breakthroughs because there just aren't that many magicians practicing. Magic is not conducive to new technology. No one is using cutting edge technology. 
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Marco Tempest: Augmented reality, techno-magic | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Do our students know that this type of storytelling is possible? 
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Code to Joy: The School for Poetic Computation Opens - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The founders of the school say they want to promote work that is strange, impractical and magical. The school’s motto? “More poems less demos.”
  • “People are coming from a programming background, and thinking, how do I make art with these skills? Things that are whimsical? Dreams?” said Zach Lieberman, one of the school’s four founders and instructors, who has taught at the Parsons School of Design and like his collaborators, has one foot in the technology world and another in the art world.
  • The school’s first crop of students include both traditional programmers and designers, but also a beatboxer from Canada, and a Ph.D. candidate studying criminal justice who wants to use data visualization to highlight problems in the prison system, said Mr. Lieberman.
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  • Another instructor, Amit Pitaru, who has taught at New York University, is the creator of the Sonic Wire Sculptor a musical instrument that creates muted and dreamlike dissonant tones with a three-dimensional drawing tool.
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