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In Geneva, where the cold winter is striking back, the week had been, for once!, very quiet with data analysis (head-mounted display project) and book writing (game controllers!). We’re also preparing two workshops for the upcoming Lift12 conference. The first … Continue reading
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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
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Hello. It’s time for the weekending post. A few things. First — I was introduced to this graphic above from @bruces. It shows a Venn diagram showing a kind of perspective of what-could-be. For that reason, I chose to interpret … Continue reading
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Well, I haven’t done a weekending in awhile, partially because I was away in Switzerland (for the Swiss Design Network Conference) and then Italy and Spain on vacation and I almost didn’t take any kind of computer, but I did … Continue reading
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Well, got about half way through the new Steven Johnson book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation and still going. He tells a good story and I believe much of it. There’s something funny going on … Continue reading
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Well, probably the most intriguing thing that happened last week was the unexpected conversations that started up around the graphs of the future presentation I gave (all of 15 minutes) at the University of Michigan last Saturday the 2nd. It … Continue reading
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Well..Most of the week was spent working on the work, enjoying the change that comes from change and new personalities and wondering excitedly about where things are going. I spent a bit of time relearning video editing and compilation tools … Continue reading
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Last week, or the weekending on August 29 2010, I noticed and took stock of more and more of this kind of behavior. I mean — I really noticed the ways that people get locked into their screens. It’s like … Continue reading
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The disadvantage of having so much fun taking photos of skateboarders is that I have less “design research-y” photos to go along with the dispatches here from the Laboratory. So..I’m reusing some and digging deep into the archives. Anyway. I’ve … Continue reading
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Sketching in Hardware 2010 I can sum the last two weeks up briefly and, again — for my own record keeping. Nothing useful here, likely at all. The week that ended on 08062010 had a couple of days off during which … Continue reading
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Good lord. What happened just then? Well — I missed a weeknote last week, but I’m not going to do penance. It happens. I’ve been working — mostly in my head, with a swirl of notes — on two casual commissions for … Continue reading
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An amphibian podcast interview by Chris Sallquist for Frog’s Design Mind on Air podcast. Great questions. I saved the cheat-sheet for future reference. Seattle. A scooter tucked away. Well, well, well..no more phoning-it-in, as they say out here in Hollywood. … Continue reading