19. Electricomics
iPad-only Electricomics was the latest attempt to rethink comics and graphic novels for touchscreen devices. Complete with comics from Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Leah Moore and John Reppion, and Peter Hogan, it showed how careful (rather than show-offy) use of interactivity really could add to the medium.
Exciting to see our Electricomics iPad app featured in the best apps of 2015. There’s also now a beta Desktop reader.
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Over $10,000 for a watch that’ll last two years – the price is a feature.
The Apple Watch Edition is a statement piece; whether a whim of Jonny Ive 1 or a treat for China’s rich fashion elite 2. It’s a potentially lucrative experiment.
There are many ways to rationalise why people will buy it. Maybe it’ll be upgradeable, with the S1’s system on a chip 3 you could replace the S1 with an S2. Maybe the Watch won’t see annual updates nor need upgrading, beyond sensors and battery life the Watch is a mere dumb screen, what could need an upgrade so soon? Maybe one day it’ll be a collectable, worth well more than the original cost. Maybe it’s purely an experiment; the Apple Watch 2 won’t come in Edition, but a same-price gold effect like the iPhone, iPad and new MacBook.
Right now if you think $10,000 is too much, then you’re not the target market of the Apple Watch Edition.
I’ll be getting the much cheaper Sports Edition and see how it goes 4.
I am rich
I deserv it
I am good,
healthy &
successful
Notes:
In testing Yosemite beta, you may come across a DNS failure, so no webpages load in Safari and apps have no internet. This often happens after the Mac wakes from sleep.
After trying to flush the DNS cache it said the mDNSResponder service wasn’t running; so to get things back in action just start the mDNSResponder service again with this command:
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
If you don’t fancy tapping away in Terminal, a restart will also get this running again.
Update 19/10/2014: As Foutchy pointed out in the comments, the final version of Yosemite released to the public no longer has the mDNSResponder instead you can use:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.discoveryd.plist
Ocasta Studios will create the app and open source toolkit over the coming year. Collaboratively with the talented creative team of storytellers, artists and researchers we’re going to develop this transparently and openly so keep an eye on the Electricomics GitHub.
Electricomics has been in the planning for a while and we got the green light yesterday to start the actual creation! It’s funded by a research and development grant with one goal – explore the possibilities of the comic medium, without the constraints of the industry. Bringing the power back to the creators whilst finding new ways to entertain the readers.
All open source and transparent. Worth watching! Read more on my article on Ocasta Studios.