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In a busy, bustling hipster bar called The Alibi Room in Culver City California, you’ll get a magician-sized playing card to identify you as the party who ordered two flights of spicy pork korean BBQ tacos, fries and a couple … Continue reading
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Speculative design details for a Star Trek (TOS) Sciences Tricorder, complete with placement of thru-hole (!) capacitors, resistors, wire bundles and rectifiers. Just in case you were wondering, there will be no surface mount in the future, which is fine. … Continue reading
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The Valley and The Sky, Sascha Pohflepp’s RCA dissertation, just now released into the wild’s of the networked jungle. A dissertation about California’s technology culture between idealism, business and futures for design. Submitted to Critical Historical Studies at the Royal … Continue reading
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Discarded Maneki Neko, resting comfortably in Madrid, Spain. This is the most important thing you will read this year if you have any interest in or passion for ubicomp, design, making-things. I’ll quote a bit, then send you to the … Continue reading
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Tucked away, a map there for me to use. Departing Madrid early on a Sunday morning, I found this paper map of the Metro, tucked neatly within the seams of a pre-fab wall, ready for re-use. I wondered, who was … Continue reading
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Two old trades in Madrid, Spain. Sex and smokes. Focused endeavors. No fuss, no muss..err.. Where exactly? Sole proprietor. In central Madrid, Spain, near Anton Martin metro, a butcher’s studied hand trims and fillets a ham. I can’t remember the … Continue reading
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Newsstand in central Madrid, Spain. Where? A curious assortment of news and media products also in Madrid, Spain Where? Some 5 Euro DVDs in a strange categorization schema. Not sure these all belong together in the same selection, as Boris … Continue reading
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This came up in the studio..errr…I think it was a studio BBQ. Mr Newman pondered – what about thoughtful acts? A sign of a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, painted backwards so motorists’ passing along on the parallel … Continue reading
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Museo del Jamon. Museum and Eatery! I’m not a nervous pig eater, but I’m also not well-known as a food experimenter. No pink fish or sketchy street food when on the road and, knock-wood, I’ve always managed to avoid any … Continue reading
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No almost back to the Laboratory after a fantastic week in Madrid at Medialab Prado where I was helping run their annual Interactivos workshop/activityshop. This one happened along with Critical Art Ensemble and, of course, all the fine folks at … Continue reading
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Well, I’ll be sad to miss Lift in Geneva this year. Really sad. But, you shouldn’t be, so I suggest you go if you can, especially if you’re close by anyway, to mitigate large carbon foot stomps. It’ll be a … Continue reading
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Ian Bogost‘s and his Persuasive Games operation have introduced an iPhone game called JetSet — a curious little gem that situates specific locations as the enforced zone for game play. Very interesting play mechanic — a location-based game that you … Continue reading