Interaction Terms

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Janet Cardiff Sound Art

Just a quick note on some material in this hard-to-find catalogue resume of Janet Cardiff‘s work. It’s called Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, with George Bures Miller Cardiff is well-known for her early-days “sound walks” where participants were given … Continue reading

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Quiet But Not Quiescent

<img src="“/> Judge not the less yammer-y state of the studio blog to indicate that there is nothing worth yammering about. It’s just that the clang of steel caressing code has been going on and that in great measure, too. … Continue reading

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The Week Ending 291210

Rules, instructions, parameters? Embedded inscriptions of some nature, found on a wall in Sayulita Mexico. Well, maybe weeknotes are from the *week ending* but posted at the *week commencing*. One advantage of being one’s own blog boss, I suppose. It … Continue reading

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The Week Ending 220110

What one finds house hunting in Los Angeles and coming across one owned by a Hollywood set designer. Also looking at the same moment, a demure, polite and inquisitive actress vaguely recognized and thence confirmed to be the nitty Shannon … Continue reading

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Slow Down

It’s not often we’re found in print, but this happened when the magazine Good did its “Slow Issue”. Jennifer Leonard chatted with us one morning about our perspectives on the slow movement because of our work on the Slow Messenger … Continue reading

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The Week Ending 080110

Markings for repair or warnings to mitigate accidents? Seen in Seoul, South Korea. Whilst technically still on holiday, there were some things done as usual and *holiday* is never entirely just not doing nuthin’. There was a quick visit to … Continue reading

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Generative Urban Design

Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf”, “PictoBrowser”, “500″, “430″, “8″, “#E0E0E0″); so.addVariable(“source”, “sets”); so.addVariable(“names”, “LA Generative Procedural Maps”); so.addVariable(“userName”, “nearfuturelab”); so.addVariable(“userId”, “73737423@N00″); so.addVariable(“ids”, “72157622074827670″); so.addVariable(“titles”, “on”); so.addVariable(“displayNotes”, “off”); so.addVariable(“thumbAutoHide”, “off”); so.addVariable(“imageSize”, “medium”); so.addVariable(“vAlign”, “mid”); so.addVariable(“vertOffset”, … Continue reading

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William H. Whyte Revisited: An Experiment With An Apparatus for Capturing Other Points of View

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LIS302DL. A 3 Axis Accelerometer

Ooooh. Those code jockeys in the Laboratory have been mucking about in the ol’ locker room, giving each other rat-tails, chucking firecrackers in the halls and having a good horsin’ around. Smoking cigarettes and drinking cheap booze. Everything. Stink bombs … Continue reading

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Companion Species Training Game

The new-to-me Nintendo DS “Personal Trainer Walking” (heck of a name..) alongside of the Japanese language game whose name I forget and cannot read. I found out about this Nintendo DS game from Kevin who found out about it from … Continue reading

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Exit Strategies. UCLA Design Media Arts 2008 MFA Exhibition

Took a jaunt through the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2nd Year MFA Thesis Show this evening, titled “Exit Strategies.” There were a couple of pieces that stood out to me in the exhibition, which ranged from rather cerebral to … Continue reading

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Kombolói: An Anti-Anxiety Device

This is a quick, quick sketch for an idea I had for a intimate personable device that is best described as a digital worry bead or Kombolói — not so much a worry bead as something to capture and diffuse … Continue reading