1. links for 2008-10-28

    • The Omnigoogle
      Very interesting post which offers a good overview of the business model of Google and the manichean good and bad points; it explores as well its relationship witht he Microsoft model. Use also the idea of the internet considered as an Operating System
      (tags: business internet google os network)

    October 28, 2008
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  2. links for 2008-10-27

    • http://www.9045.fr
      A series of format (90mm x 45mm) defined editions’ collection entirely dedicated to artistic production. The production is artisanal, and in limited quantity. A very strong and defined object, very nice!
      (tags: book edition editor format)

    October 27, 2008
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  3. dog eared books

    A little while ago, Pierre sent me an image of a project he thought about for quite sometimes. The idea complements the republishing process of R-Echos and is based on sharing quotes from the books we read.

    http://dogeared-books.electronest.com/
    the rule is quite simple:

    for each quote we like, we make a corner in the book; after a few pages, at the end of the capter, when we finish the book, or stop reading it – we scan the pages and retype the quote (ideally we would use OCR)

    After a while we will end up with a very nice collections of cornered pages, and also a database of our favourites bits and pieces from the books we read and which have no search functionality – it is a kind of personal Google Books as well.

    * You will notice there are Amazon ads – for a reason: ideally, i would like this experiment to be self sustainable, and the sharing of books could pay for buying the next ones. So if you enjoy the project and find a few books you would like to buy – please use our links, we asked Amazon to pay us in books :)

    October 26, 2008
    Categories: book, bookmark, newly released, website
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  4. Living in (east) London

    east london

    Maxime (my good old mate, master at typography as well as at tatooing, amongst other things) filmed our flat a while back when he visited for the tatoo convention 2008 in Bricklane; he posted the video on the website for his Sang Bleu Magazine – here

    * it feels a bit strange to see your own flat on the website of someone else :)

    October 21, 2008
    Categories: Uncategorized, data beautification, internal, london, offline, thinking loud
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  5. links for 2008-10-20

    • Plank Chair
      Amandine send me this instructable project – it looks quite nice; also quick and easy to do
      (tags: chair diy)

    October 20, 2008
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  6. links for 2008-10-19

    October 19, 2008
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  7. links for 2008-10-18

    October 18, 2008
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  8. links for 2008-10-17

    October 17, 2008
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  9. links for 2008-10-16

    October 16, 2008
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  10. links for 2008-10-14

    • didot!
      i did a bit of search around the address first – if you enlarge the picture you can see the logo of Science Po (a well known superior study school in France) – they have 2 building at a number 56: rue Jacob, rue des Saints Peres – i then simply counter-checked the information with historical websites on printers and books printed by Firmin Didot and finally found the address of the building on the picture.
      (tags: picture search tracking location)
    • loulouteland – MyMiniCity
      discovered this trough a comment in a Wired post – it seems to be quite a nice addictive thing for some… would be nice to explore this kind of idea in relationship with website frequentation and buzzing around for Sueprmarketo; business wise: strangely enough there's nothing like paid ads on their page; it seems they rather advertise other games/services they produce online
      (tags: buzz traffic)
    • Regenerate Thumbnails / WordPress Plugins
      Regenerate thumbnails plugins comes very very handy if you've changed either of your thumbnail dimensions
      (tags: wordpress plugin thumbnail size resize)

    October 14, 2008
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  11. links for 2008-10-13

    October 13, 2008
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  12. saturday / walking

    from Eastbourne to Seafront

    walking, originally uploaded by jrgd.

    On Saturday, we joined Florian, Uli, Sarah and Rafael at Bethnal Green station – we then took the train from London Victoria to Eastbourne; finaly: from there we walked to Seaford.

    It was a great pleasure to be in the nature, even just for a day – and I greatly enjoyed the company of every one… but i have to be honest and say that the deep and real pleasure came from rediscovering i could hike on quite a long distance after all what happened those last months.


    map     – photo set: www.flickr.com/photos/jrgd/sets/72157607958722809/

    Seven Sisters (from Wikipedia):
    The cliffs are occasionally used in film and television as a stand-in for the more famous white cliffs of Dover, since they are relatively free of anachronistic modern development.

    October 12, 2008
    Categories: new body, offline, outdoor
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  13. links for 2008-10-12

    October 12, 2008
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  14. links for 2008-10-10

    October 10, 2008
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  15. links for 2008-10-09

    October 09, 2008
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    October 08, 2008
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  17. The mini versions

    This morning discussing with Amandine and Anna we came across a couple of buildings which had a mini version of them beforhand their construction – either trough a natural research process or simply because investors were too scared of the novelty the building could represent and the consequent impact on the landscape…


    The Barbican, by suburbanslice

    the Golden Lane estate, by stevecadman

    Barbican & the Golden Lane estate
    Barbican is a well known huge and massive architecture programme in the center of London; after World War 2, a large bombed area has been converted into this utopian project which was reconsidering the needs of modern humans in a urban environnement. Both Barbican and Golden Lane Estate were designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, with obvious Corbusian influences. Golden Lane is of course the mini version (somehow) of the Barbican and came earlier (1957, 1969).


    Trevelyan by Jamie Barras


    Keeling house by joseph beuys hat

    Keeling House & Trevelyan House
    Denys Lasdun designed both of them; they were built between 1957 and 1959. Keeling house is a 4 blocks of maisonettes arranged around a central service tower. In 1952, a rougher similar construction has been built, apparently more dedicated to the working class.


    Balfron Tower, by Richard Parmiter


    Trellick Tower, by Cristiano Betta

    Trellick Tower & Balfron Tower
    I’ve been introduced to those two by Ryan Gander trough his amazing loose association lectures series. When confronted with the volume of the tower designed by Ernõ Goldfinger, investors were scared this would be like a scar in the landscape (London does not have a lot of skyscraper, especially atthat time). They managed to get a smaller version built in East London, to get an impression of how it would be build.

    * Process wise:
    This pre production makes me think that for each of the website i am delivering there would be one, officially working, to test case the pertinence of the design and concpets as well as the solidity of the code.

    * More information on the building:
    Balfron Tower
    Trelick Tower
    Keeling House
    Golden Lane Estate
    Barbican Estate

    October 07, 2008
    Categories: collection, culture, designing, london, offline
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  18. The hackable invisible structures

    This post is made of a few short connection in between 3 things; all of them are linked to notions like future proof, open source and hackability.

    hackable-structures.jpg
    (center picture: Nicolas Nova; left: Assembling, right: Miltos Manetas )

    * This morning i’ve read a very nice post by Nicolas (Pasta & Vinegar); titled buildings as flows and process, it shows a couple of pipes in the streets of North America which are depicting the infrastructure of the building itself.

    * Somehow it reminded me of that post i wrote on Assembling about ‘The beauty of designing the underlying structure’ which somehow linked a large biro drawing by Amandine, a carpet by Britta Boehne, a series of paintings by Milto Manetas and my reflections on my own practice.

    * This morning i was also dwelving in R-Echos archives and came across this post (original post is here): Social Networks Evil Twin Attacks which depicts an attack made on an individual using the social networks in vogue with the web 2.0, Markus the other day was speaking about this kind of concerns and issues with services like Facebook.

    October 07, 2008
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  19. links for 2008-10-06

    October 06, 2008
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  20. Internet or the internet?

    The kind of ‘formal’ language interogations that makes a lot of sense to me or at least it draws my attention a lot lately – like how do you spell/capitalise/prefix the word internet:

    the internet
    internet
    Internet
    the Internet

    now i will wonder about two more parameters: in or on.

    * Via

    “i work in ubiquitous computing”
    Often bemused by the “on the internet” versus “in the internet” debate, it’s intriguing that the only person we can find who refers to “i work in ubiquitous computing” was late Mark Weiser (see on his website).

    ** Christophe Guignard from Fabric.ch during a talk by Eric Sadin (Times of the Signs) once noted the different spelling of connection (physically attached) and connexion (close but not touching eachother) in french and english.

    October 05, 2008
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