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15 Minute browsing limits for the tacky beauty, fashion and narrowcast hobby/sport magazines. 5 minutes for muscles, guns, motorcycles and dirtbikes! Yeah! 3 minutes for the DVD-pinchers prone to the back of the store’s rough-shod top-shelf collection. Urban Scout Nicolas … Continue reading
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A page from the 2001 section of the amazing new Taschen edition – The Stanley Kubrick Archives. I’m emphasizing 2001: A Space Odyssey here, but this wonderfully designed book covers Kubrick’s film oeuvre. As I’ve been digging up materials on … Continue reading
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Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Design. Closing day for the Future Imaginary exhibition. Where on earth is this? It’s here. My USC chum Holly Willis did a fun email interview with me for her Blur + Sharpen blog. … Continue reading
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Dashing off into the ubiquitously connected crisis of effects. Montreal, with two chums in the back seat educating me on the consequences of a world of ubiquity — one in which everyone is connected. Aaron and Raph poke around the … Continue reading
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Found items, Saturday noon, arranged thusly. Further indication of a rather polite evening’s activities. Broken bottle, top half. Not smashed. Or smashed into something. But, placed carefully. Arranged things. Further arrangements. My friend Tod called this one “Larry, Curly and … Continue reading
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From April 1 until the 3rd I’ll be at the Design Connexity conference as part of Eighth International Conference of the European Academy of Design. On Friday the 3rd I’ll give a talk, probably on Design Fiction or Prototypes and … Continue reading
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Clearly. Sushi. ..and a placemat with Korean warnings about things in the food, and a lovely little beer glass with Hite, the Pabst Blue Ribbon of Korean beers (and wonderful for that..I’ve had my share there in Seoul). This was … Continue reading
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Neighborly offerings. Fruit fresh from the tree is often found out and about in Los Angeles. Some observations of peculiar social practices found from last Saturday’s head-clearing perambulation. There was this, first as I approached from this tree from the … Continue reading
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Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction. A couple of years ago, in a small discussion group while I was teaching at USC, Paul Dourish presented an early draft of a paper he and Genevieve Bell … Continue reading
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Since I was asked, and asked again, I’ll toss this technotopia solutions nugget to demonstrate that, despite the evidence demonstrated by recent public appearances and weblog postings, we here at the Laboratory are in fact still fully engaged in connecting … Continue reading
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From the blog-all-curious-monuments desk, Sunday morning coming back from Lake Arrowhead California on a clear, crisp March morning, came across this on a pull-out along the bold mountain road. A monument. To one Donald S. Wieman, for his handiwork..I guess … Continue reading
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This week, high on the list of things to look forward to (definitely well-above my appointment with my accountant, nice as she is..) is O’Reilly Etech. I’m glad to be going this year, after missing it entirely last year. I’ll … Continue reading