The practice of modding is full of stops and starts. Progress is dispersed; a lump of time here, a lump of time there, and long periods of non-engagement. This period of non-engagement impacts on my understanding of the mod; during this time my knowledge of the project begins to atrophy. This is particularly the case […]
Category Archives: General Research Field
The Unknown Unknown
I’ve spent the last couple of months working on my B&O MP3 mod. I was hoping to have it finished in time for the MacMod competition but after a frantic week (and some sleepless nights) it became obvious that wasn’t going to happen – there was just too much to get done. At the competition […]
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RetroPod meets the Sony hard line
In a previous post I discussed the producer / consumer struggle taking place within the construction of object identity. In another example of this struggle, John Young – maker of the retroPod, has joined the (not so exclusive) list of recipients of a Sony “cease and desist” order. John has been shoehorning iPods into the […]
Droog design and the bootleg objects project.
I’ve just been in Sydney for the weekend and had an opportunity to go browsing through some good book shops. I came across the new book by Droog Design, simply droog. I hadn’t looked at Droog closely before now, but I was aware that their work was probably relevant to my masters research (and I […]
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Hot-Rods and Case-Mods.
In the life of the object two territories can be mapped out, that of production and of consumption. In the industrialized object these territories meet at the cash register. Here, the authorized checkpoint between zones, the object crosses from the realm of production to that of consumption. However outside this limited view of production and […]