““[Design can be …] The stable platform on which to entertain unusual bedfellows. The glue for things that may not be naturally sticky. The lubricant that allows movement between ideas that don’t quite run together. The medium through which we can make otherwise awkward connections and comparisons. The language for tricky conversations and translations.”
- Dr Ken Arnold, Head of Public Programs, The Wellcome Trust, London.
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Július Koller, Post-Komunikacia (U.F.O.), 1977 Collage et peinture sur carte postale Courtesy gb agency, Paris
Read MorePlaying with Goldmosh and YouTube excerpts. This is GITS with strong datamoshing.
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*They’re not dead yet, but they serve no technical function, other than the skeuomorphic legal and financial pretense that e-books are “books,” and therefore somehow different from all other digital files.
*It’s sorta like the “Wall Street Journal” still pretending that the Wall Street Journal is whatever it thinks it is this week.
*I hope all those dedicated e-reader “books” are somehow able to squirm out of the sarcophagus of their formatting and copy protection, because otherwise we will presently see the largest “book” holocaust of all time, at least in terms of the numbers of individual copies.
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- Bruce Sterling on ebooks
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What shall we do next? by Julien Prévieux.
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“Double Tap - Sam Driver - 48 Hour Compo Entry”:
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Why do I blog this? An interesting book by Marc Vallée about defensive space, covering anti-skateboard devices. Interestingly, this is the topic that led to the largest number of comments on my blog. I find it relevant to see the type of “solutions” presented here. It would be funny to document how skaters ingeniously manage to get rid of them.
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Working on a paper about the design space of gameful apps, it’s relevant to get back to seminal papers such as “A Morphological Analysis of the Design Space of Input Devices” by Card et al., 1991.
Read More“Media archaeology can be understood as a heterogeneous set of theories and methods that investigate media history through its alternative roots, forgotten paths, neglected ideas and machines. It explicitly challenges the supposed newness of digital culture. Media archaeology gives new ideas to understand media cultural temporality. The definitions have ranged from emphasising the recurring nature of media cultural discourses (Huhtamo) to media archaeology as an-archaeology, or variantology (Zielinski) which in its excavation of the deep time layers of our means of seeing tries to find an alternative route to dismantle the fallacy of linear development.”
- What is “media archaeology”, by Jussi Parrika
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Probably a crapject… found at Fort escroto.
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Brain-Computer Interface (Muse): “head-bands are cool again”
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From James Auger’s PhD defense. This quote also sums up his perspective:
Speculative design effectively facilitates the creation of high-resolution imaginaries of possible destinations - these can then be used to encourage contemplation and analysis on whether this is improved or not. Significantly this can be used to engage a broad variety of audiences.
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新しい言葉 (New Words) by Alex Dodge: A method for generating phonetically unique words from a corpus of existing words in the Japanese language. —resulting in words that are statistically similar to Japanese.
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“Farewell To The Feminine Hand”
“It was the day before my daughter’s high school graduation and I thought I’d treat her to a manicure at ___’s so she could pick up her summa cum laude diploma with pride. Imagine her mortification when the manicurist commented on her OUTSIZE THUMBS, and declared that painting such monster digits would cost double. Whysoever could this be? I had to investigate. It turned out that my daughter – the most popular girl in her class – had been sending up to 300 text messages – short notices on the mobile phone – per day. While glad she was so very socially-engaged and supportive of her friends, this one-handed work-out had quite destroyed the elegance of her former elegant pianist’s hand…”
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Jay @hautepop 2:51 pm on December 8, 2012.
Intriguing irony here.
Read More A patent for an “Internet refrigerator and operating method thereof” by peeps at LG Electronics:
The Internet refrigerator includes a modem for performing a data communication with remote communication devices through the Internet, a first contr...
Read More“Motor cells that respond to the sight of other people moving are intriguing, there’s no doubt. It’s likely they play a role in important social cognitions. But to claim that they make us empathic, and to raise them up as neuroscience’s holy gr...
Read MorePierre la Police, So Foot (2012):“In 2050, soccer will be totally different / First: we will not call it “le foot” but ‘spetnos’”
“Every game will be played at the Olympa [a concert hall in Paris]”
“It will look like a “yes/no game...
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