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Clean Coal
from freeloveforum.
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E.A.T.
I was googling E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology when I came across this collaboration for the Expo ’70 Pepsi Pavilion in Osaka, Japan. The outside of the building was covered by a water vapour cloud sculpture by Fujiko Nakaya. The dome shaped objects in the foreground are six-foot high moving sculptures by Robert…
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Corporate Cannibal
Grace Jones has a new video. Steven Shaviro reflects on the video, gender, race, and capitalism and explains why Jones is such a compelling figure.
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Western Spaghetti
from PES.
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Wallpaper for new iPhone owners
from John Young.
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Our Google Future
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Curitiba, Brazil
I just listened to an interview with Jaime Lerner (transcript here), president of the International Union of Architects and 3 time mayor of Curitiba. He has many insightful things to say about cities as instruments for change. What struck me, in our current climate of 2020 and 2030 plans, was his three principles for change: keep it simple,…
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NARCOA
Sometimes using the internet feels a bit like that movie cliché where a black van pulls up and a character gets dumped out onto the pavement. Your dazed, you have no idea how you got there, yet things seem vaguely familiar. It was like that today when I found myself on the North American Railcar Operators…
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Dr. Horrible’s sing-along blog
Joss Whedon (writer/creator/director of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, etc.) has a new three part web-based musical mini series. Act I, II, and III are now available! Light, funny (via laughing squid).
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John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown was Chief Scientist at Xerox for many years and the Director of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 1990 – 2000. Some amazing stuff came out of PARC, including the Macintosh personal computer – John has something to say on that towards the end of this video. It’s a long video (almost…
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Big Ideas (don’t get any)
Simon sent me a link to this video. It’s by Glasgow School of Art graduate James Houston, set to the Radiohead tune Nude. The nostalgic tragedy of Radiohead seems to couple perfectly with the Sinclair ZX spectrum.
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I feel… small
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar made a web based collaborative art piece in 2005 titled We Feel Fine. I remember hearing about it at the time, but I’ve only just gone and checked it out. The project, located at www.wefeelfine.org presents a database of feelings, captured automatically from blog posts. Essentially the system searches for the phrase “I…
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the box of joy
Esther (from VCA) has, with typical boundless energy, entered the blogosphere. The box of joy, a “helmet of leisure and learning”, now has a dedicated blog. Esther has prepared a broad, slightly eclectic, collection of instructional audio for the helmet – check out the details and book a session.
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Airships are our future
I’ve just been reading a post on we make money not art with an interesting comment on the “illusion of progress”. The post quotes architect Usman Haque and points out that the train from Portlaoise (Ireland) to Dublin took 51 minutes with steam engine in 1928, in 2006 it takes 55 minutes. 90 years, 4 minutes late.…