1. links for 2008-09-30

    September 30, 2008
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  2. links for 2008-09-29

    September 29, 2008
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  3. links for 2008-09-28

    September 28, 2008
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  4. A (long) Bunch of Links

    I edited the R-Echos Links Page today and thought it would be nice to have those gems around here as well:

    * Piotch’s Bookmarks

    Autonomous Mutation
    Code and Form
    Digital Urban
    EveryOne Forever
    Findabilty
    Generator X
    iGargoyle
    WMNA
    O’Reilly Radar

    Digital Experience

    Reference Library

    Super Colossal
    Fade Theory

    Gamper Martino
    Daniel Charny
    Hyphen Press
    White Triangle

    Etoy Corporation’s blog

    Social Design Notes
    Manystuff
    The Style Press
    It’s nice that
    Vielip’s Bookmarks
    Unlimited Edition (Hexaplex)
    Flight404
    Information Aesthetics

    French things / Things in french
    La Revue du Design
    Richard Menneveux

    September 28, 2008
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  5. links for 2008-09-27

    September 27, 2008
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  6. links for 2008-09-25

    September 25, 2008
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  7. 1906 flying steampunk

    This morning i stumbled upon a picture (thanks Gmc) i’m reproducing below at a smaller scale:

    airship-1.jpg

    It’s quite a beautiful picture, with such a wide angle it makes you feel the city is at your feet. Upon closer examination, one can notice the city is in ruin. It has been hit by the great Earthquake an earthquake (* see comments) the text on the bottom left hand corner states:

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    PHOTOGRAPH OF
    SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS
    FROM LAWRENCE CAPTIVE AIRSHIP
    2000 FEET ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO BAY
    OVERLOOKING WATER FRONT.
    SUNSET OVER GOLDEN GATE

    airship2-text2.jpg

    more on the right:
    COPYRIGHT
    GEO. R. LAWRENCE Co.
    Chicago May 28, 1906.

    I didn’t know about the earthquake of 1906 – so i went on wikipedia to read about it. The page states from the beginning:

    The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 17, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.25.

    Upon closer examination (look up the sky) I found this strange flying vehicle directly taken from the univers of Hayao Miyazaki.

    HM-flyingmachine.jpg

    Funily enough I then discovered the photographer who took the original picture: George R. Lawrence. Originally a commercial photographer with an abiding interest in kites and balloon, he turned to aviation. He started to build an aircraft at a factory in Chicago and (apparently) would be granted nearly a hundred patents for aviation-related devices.
    source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Lawrence

    It is interesting to discover the same fascination for flying in 2 different people, reconnected trough an edited photoshop picture. (see Miyazaki recurring theme of human flight).

    It reminded me of the helicoptere expedition Amandine had in Reunion Island. With all the amazing pictures she took.
    helicopterePicture 3.png

    It still have my own helicoptere to fix up and plug to my computer – I would like to have this one carrying a wireless camera to do some nice vjing with a view form top
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    September 23, 2008
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  8. UTF8 characters

    ♥ ✈ ☺ ♬ ☑ ♠ ☎ ☻ ♫ ☒ ♤ ☤ ☹ ♪ ♀ ✩ ✉ ☠ ✔ ♂ ★ ✇ ♺ ✖ ♨ ❦ ☁ ✌ ♛ ❁ ☪ ☂ ✏ ♝ ❀ ☭ ☃ ☛ ♞ ✿ ☮ ☼ ☚ ♘ ✾ ☯ ☾ ☝ ♖ ✽ ✝ ☄ ☟ ♟ ✺ ☥ ✂ ✍ ♕ ✵ ☉ ☇ ☈ ☡ ✠ ☊ ☋ ☌ ☍ ♁ ✇ ☢ ☣ ✣ ✡ ☞ ☜ ✜ ✛ ❥ ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ ☬ ☫ ☨ ☧ ☦ ✁ ✃ ✄ ✎ ✐ ❂ ❉ ❆ ♅ ♇ ♆ ♙ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞

    * i really like those utf 8 symbols – it feels like language shortcuts.

    September 21, 2008
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  9. Collections

    ● Yesterday, Pierre prototyped a new project which deals with database and the use of natural language to perform some maintenance task on it, it also auto-self-documents itself. Pierre refered to it as a thin layer of manipulation (software) on top of data.

    ⌥ Strangely today, I was considering the object of NONE (the name of this blog where I’m posting this couple of thoughts) and found some similarities (thin layer). I’m using this directory to record things, quote, anecdotes, images, projects, things i found, things i produce. The software i’m using is a blog; it uses the (forced by blog) time based narrative to organise those things.

    Picture 1.png
    A collection of collections – including R-echos issue 1

    ∴ In a way it is a bit frustrating not to be able to deeply record the (multiple) relationships – almost automatically – of the various elements i’m posting here. Meta data are becoming crucial to organise things in a records-all environement; and i wish i could organise the objects i collected by size, or by time i saved them on my desktop, or by time i uploaded them online.
    ∵ In this case, by recording things online using a blog engine I’m loosing some data sets that where embed in the file itself (Mac Os X saves data like created and modified dates) – also comes the consideration that recording all the meta data about the object itself in a manual (non automated) way would require a lot of time but would certainly proove to be more effective and accurate.

    ↩ R-Echos for example is an attempt at collecting research and reading, interesting projects or articles we come across on the internet. Originally th system i developped was recording a lot of data, including the provenance (source, via) as a separate entry in the database. When i switched the system to a wordpress based website, this provenance information was partially lost: i kept this meta information in the content of the post (as a link at the end, starting with via) but i lost the single entry from the database.
    The single entry in the database was useful in the sense that it was compute-able; i could produce meaning out of it: listing entries based on their provenanace is now a very resource intensive task if i were to develop a new Defragmentation based on the sources.


    Defragmentation is a series of considerations on data sets within R-Echos

    ** I’m using some UTF8 characters to begin paragraphs on this post in an attempt to describe the linear relation in between paragraph. I rememeber having read about press services (like AFP, reuters) using those symbol (sometimes abstract) to convey extra meaning to news they deliver (short bits of texts, excessively factual).

    *** i used the website http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ to get them quickly in my clipboard (very nice interface! from Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström).

    September 20, 2008
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  10. None None

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    September 20, 2008
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  11. 3D block type – Marcel Pagnol

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    September 20, 2008
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  12. links for 2008-09-18

    • Cray
      Founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Already a legend in his field by this time, Cray put his company on the map in 1976 with the release of the Cray-1 vector computer. Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995, while Cray Research was bought by SGI the next year. Cray Inc. was formed in 2000 when Tera Computer Company purchased the Cray Research Inc. business from SGI and adopted the name of its acquisition.
      (tags: computer legend economy business)

    September 18, 2008
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  13. AMI 6

    * AMI 6 was for some times the best sold car in France; it’s a kind of advanced model of the emblematic 2CV.

    ** Amandine send me this image as a reply to the earlier post: You are driving a Volvo; last sunday we were speaking about archetypal shapes and designs for cars.

    September 17, 2008
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  14. links for 2008-09-16

    September 16, 2008
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  15. Electronest Aggregated & Electronic Presence

    Today we published 2 new pages on the Electronest website:
    Electronest Aggregated and Electronic Presence.
    Both are resulting from frustration; Electronest Aggregated allow visitors to have a more global perception of our different website (there’s still tons of work to be done to make the experience smoother). Electronic Presence will be used as a ressource page on the concept of Electronic Presence.

    September 16, 2008
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  16. Field day for the Sundays


    Field day for the Sundays

    * today is NetNewsWire tabs cleaning day; i really appreciates the simplicity of this website. Graphically wise I feel also very close. Very Nice indeed.

    September 16, 2008
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  17. Your are driving a Volvo


    Your are driving a Volvo  1996, by Julian Opie.

    * with Amandine, on Sunday breakfast on a terrace we were discussing of the notion of iconic and archetypal cars’ shape.

    September 16, 2008
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  18. Bill Murray


    Just watched the ghostbuster series. Far less exciting than when i was kid but still nice wiht a certain retro charm; i really like the car with that steampunk feel.

    Later I googled for one of the actor, Bill Murray (Peter Venkman) and found out about this behaviour that reminded me of Richad Stallman’s web to email:

    Being very detached from the Hollywood scene, Murray does not have an agent or manager and reportedly only fields offers for scripts and roles using a personal telephone number with a voice mailbox that he checks infrequently. This practice has the downside of sometimes preventing him from taking parts that he had auditioned for and was interested in, such as that of Sulley in Monsters, Inc, Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale, Frank Ginsburg in Little Miss Sunshine and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

    * Bill Murray – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    ** Richard Stallman’s web to email: it is also linked to the electronic presence concept
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    September 16, 2008
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  19. Sticker & Poster (à Saint-denis)



    à Saint-denis, originally uploaded by Amanda Alessandrine.

    September 14, 2008
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  20. links for 2008-09-11

    September 11, 2008
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