We define accidents as things that are unexpected or happen by chance- and at first glance, it seems like drawing with this instrument is full of them. When it only moves in one direction instead of diagonally along two axes at once, the lines pair up together, every other one spaced differently than how it is drawn in the computer, and the instrument is unaware of this miscalculation of space. Or, the lead breaks when the pencil is lowered along the z-axis, or it lightens as the tip is dulled over the course of a drawing - the instrument doesn’t realize these things either.

My architect friend works long days in the office drafting plans and elevations. They also play videogames avidly. At night they close Rhino & Autocad and open other drawing editors, still clicking, scrolling, rotating, zooming in modeled spaces. Let’s follow their set of deliverables.

I’m on hold with my bank right now - the MITFCU as it happens. The great thing about being on hold is that I’d rather do anything else, even catch up on some things I’ve been putting off.

In our visits to restaurants, we have entered homes and crossed borders to taste food from across the world. However, for as many places as there are with those that offer food, there is equally as high a number of places where people cannot even afford food. In this piece, we explore the food provisional institutions, Project Restore Us & Food For Free, in their respective missions to bring food to all.

Still, there is an unseen middle phase in the process of most human things. Francesca Hughes likens the struggle between ideas and matter in buildings to the hesitance for artists, scientists, and philosophers to draw embryonic development in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Likewise in architecture, there is an “awkward generation of drawings that immediately follows the concept sketch, the not-yet buildings and the buildings-to-be––the drawings we are never shown[…], or the drawings that are too ugly to draw” (Hughes).

Mango ice cream, always already undelivered.

Learn about how I engaged my friends through cooking and interviews to obtain feedback that can help me optimize my project’s technical decisions to fit my audience’s cooking needs.

The historical film is a journey into the past. You watch as known narratives or even alternative ones unfold, catching a glimpse of idiosyncrasies, and at times, judging historical accuracy. So if the historical film is a journey into the past, then the historical game, in this case Assassins Creed III, is an experience of that past through the lens of a participant that has a hand in the unfolding of those narratives, occupying space and viscerally reacting to the events that have been coded in.

Error is good, and precision is a technical myth.

From the hatch tests we drew last week, it is clear that this instrument is most precise when both the X and Y axes are moving together. Diagonal lines, in this case at a 45 degree angle, are drawn on paper with the greatest fidelity to the coded input drawn in CAD space. This makes me think that this instrument and I have some similarities, gravitating towards drawings created in the plan oblique, or axonometric projections.

So what then? I read!

The fidelity between the drawing and coded input is one of the ways this instrument influences our collaboration

On a grey Wednesday afternoon, Carol-Anne and I, Ana, took the bus down Mt Auburn St into Watertown, to visit Tabrizi Bakery owned by Mohammad Tabrizi. The store is famous for its Persian cookies. We tasted nazok, papion, zaban, and rice flour cookies, among others. They all have a subtle, soft sweetness with hints of cardamon.

Five miles east in Somerville is The Neighborhood Restaurant. On a sunny summer afternoon, I sat down in the vine-covered outdoor patio that defines the restaurant’s dining experience. Before even sitting down with me, the owner, Sheila Borges, served me a bowl of The Neighborhood’s famous cream of wheat. It’s a warm, sweet and creamy porridge with a rich taste of cinnamon.

’Don’t walk through the scanner’

‘Just ask to get a pat down; it shouldn’t take too much longer.'

Learn about Ma Po Tofu's original story and recipe and the latest progress of building the Instagram profile for the Stories of Food & Tech column.

I spent two weeks in the winter building a small machine.
It is a machine with three motors, three drive screw rotary axes, and a motion controller – it is most simply something that can move precisely in three dimensions and is controlled by numbers.

I recollect and I hide and I yearn - such are the feelings of flipping through a family album. Who is removed? Who have I obliviated? I forget and I cannot.

In an open-world game where you can own homes, what exactly do you experience as a player? What do these homes provide after stripping away our actions in real life, such as eating, cleaning, or sleeping? Here, the definition of home is literal: It does not imply the symbolic meaning of belonging to a player community. Home, here, is also interchangeable with a plethora of synonyms, such as a safe house, hideout, base, home plate, garage, HQ…

To new challenges, and solving problems at the intersection of fields