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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
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[Martin Puryear's] sculptures look the way they do because they need to in order to mean what they do. The labor that is compressed into them allows them to work over time, and the time it takes to make them … Continue reading
© 2010 Julian. All rights reserved.
“One might almost say that truth itself depends on the tempo, the patience and perseverance of lingering with the particular.” Via nettime and @bruces, we come across The Slow Media Manifesto, a 14 point statement capturing what slow media is … Continue reading
© 2010 Julian. All rights reserved.
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
© 2010 Julian. All rights reserved.
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
© 2009 Julian. All rights reserved.
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
© 2009 Julian. All rights reserved.
© 2009 Julian. All rights reserved.
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
© 2008 Julian. All rights reserved.
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality and engendering dreams…The architecture of tomorrow will be a means of modifying present conceptions of time and space. It will be both a means of knowledge and … Continue reading
© 2008 Julian. All rights reserved.
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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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
© 2007 Julian. All rights reserved.
Product Prototype: SlowMessenger Slow Messenger is an instant messaging device that delivers messages exceptionally slowly. Built into the device is a messaging technology that unfolds its content based on an interface that borrows from the traditions of long-form letter writing, … Continue reading