Pretty Maps – 20×200 Editions

Pretty Maps LA by Aaron Staup Cope © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

Some of you may have noticed, mostly probably not — but the Laboratory has expanded its ranks. It’s starting to feel like a proper design collective in here. One of the lovely attributes of the people in the Lab are … Continue reading

Weekending 21012012

Jayne's Portals Light Box © 2012 Nicolas. All rights reserved.

Fabien and Nicolas went to Madrid for a workshop at BBVA innovation about Smart Cities. Organized by Urbanscale (and more specifically by Jeff Kirsh, Adam Greenfield and Leah Meisterlin), it focused on opportunities to use networked data for the client. … Continue reading

privatesquare

I blame Cheathco © 2012 aaron. All rights reserved.

I’ve been working on, and testing out, a new thing for the last couple of weeks. It is called privatesquare. It is a pretty simple web application that manages a private database of foursquare check-ins. It uses foursquare itself as … Continue reading

Weekending 15012012

StudioShot-4 © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

I spent quite a deal of time in workshops evolving some ideas around location and tracking. We had Marc Tuters come by the studio. Marc’s written and created quite a number of locative media projects over perhaps the last decade. … Continue reading

Sound Should Just Come Out Of It

SOT23-5-Huge © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

I think going forward I should do a better job of talking around what we’re working on from a technical point of view, until such time as it’s okay to talk about what we’re doing from a principles, rituals and … Continue reading

Ceci n’est pas une caméra

Lytro_01162012_1246_00768 © 2012 Julian. All rights reserved.

Yesterday while leaving the LA Photo exhibition in Santa Monica — a kind of catch-all retail event of photography through the commercial curatorial world of private galleries — I happened across a small scrum of people with anodized extruded rectangles holding them … Continue reading

Weekending 25122011

© 2011 Julian. All rights reserved.

It was Christmas Day when the week ended here in Los Angeles. The week before, lots of fun stuff happened, mostly these two interviews. One was with Steve Portigal for his Omni Project, called Creating Wily Subversions. Nicolas did an … Continue reading

Airport Timer

Airport Timer © 2011 aaron. All rights reserved.

  There’s a passage in David Pascoe’s book Aircraft where he talks about how none of the airports of the time were prepared for the introduction of the 747. Specifically there was no part of the physical infrastructure of an … Continue reading

Portals

© 2011 Jayne. All rights reserved.

  I love the magically mundane virtual real world of Google Streetview, and like others I’ve longed for my 15 frames of blurry low-res Street View fame. So I’ve been wondering, how can I get into Street View without having to stalk the car … Continue reading