Word: actualizations
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...figures writhing within a bright, clinical space. Hirst's meticulous glass tanks have some of the same feel about them, sanitary enclosures for something menacing (that shark), visceral (a bisected calf) or even putrid (that cow's head). In recent years Hirst has also begun to absorb Bacon's actual imagery into his tanks of formaldehyde. Two years ago he showed a work derived from one of the anguished triptychs Bacon made after the suicide of his lover George Dyer - with slaughtered sheep substituted for Dyer. Hirst has been buying Bacons as well, five of them so far, including...
...finding out what kind of painter he is. He's even begun to think of his mass-produced paintings as a means he used to avoid becoming a painter of another kind. "The spot paintings, the spin paintings," he says, "they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas...
...that rarest of creatures, a true intellectual omnivore. He is literally interested in everything. Based on his conversation, he might be a molecular biologist or an economist. In fact, he designs video games for a living. Wright is the inventor of The Sims, the revolutionary game in which actual humans control the lives of little simulated humans, making them go to work or fall in love or swim around in virtual swimming pools till they drown. The Sims is the best-selling computer game of all time. Among game designers, Wright is considered a living god. Now he wants...
...opening act of Spore shows a comet crashing into Earth bearing organic material from outer space. This represents an actual hypothesis of how life on Earth began, called panspermia, which Wright considers to be fairly plausible. (He describes himself as "definitely an atheist. Well, agnostic atheist maybe.") But that's not why he put it in Spore. He put it in because it's more fun than other hypotheses. "We did a lot of prototypes around more of a biogenesis model," Wright says. "Autocatalytic sets, emergent chemistries. The programmer and I really enjoyed playing with those. Nobody else did. They...
...ones they like (crowdfunding)? That's what Cameesa.com is doing, in a fashion-forward knockoff of Threadless.com which generated $17 million in revenues in 2006 by having the crowd choose T-shirt designs. "If you put money down to support a design, that's a strong indicator of actual demand," says Cameesa founder Andrew Cronk, a programmer in Chicago. In other words, the folks who fund your venture double as a first-rate focus group...