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Times map

http://www.worldtimezone.com/datetime.htm

January 13, 2009
Categories: found image
Tags: map, time, utc, world
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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
Tags: film, flat, maxime, sangbleu
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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
Tags: architecture, process, research, try out
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The bizarre feeling of autodeletion…

i knew it…
i shouldn’t have tested this code live…

basically it is a mini ftp manager written in PHP
This morning i was working on the account deletion scripts

and tested…
and deleted…

when i realised what i did i had the very bizarre impression of the end of a world… something not really painful (i have backup) but annoying
Somehow: the code deleted itself, a bit like a suicide.

* I’m in front of the computer chatting with Pierre about that feeling of autodeltion because of my lack of adequate skills.

October 01, 2008
Categories: coding, data beautification, electronic presence
Tags: AI, autodeletion, script
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worst beauty

from BBC

August 09, 2008
Categories: data beautification
Tags: colour, light, war
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image collection

collections.august1st.png

August 01, 2008
Categories: collection
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(happy) random graphic accident

* this morning i spoted this happening on a collection page on R-Echos: visualisation

July 31, 2008
Categories: data beautification
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Google Analytics new favicon

July 30, 2008
Categories: data beautification
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R-Echos everywhere

* this is a new apge on R-Echos to list everywhere were one can connect to the project

July 30, 2008
Categories: bookmark, collection
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SU – Image Collection

* it would be nice to be able to pipe data somewhere

July 29, 2008
Categories: bookmark, collection
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An experiment in the economics of production

An experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?

This is a poster and a text: an analog R-Echos
Would you be interested in investing in the tangible production of this work?

1. You can download the digital archive
and decide wether or not you’re interested in particpating in this project.
2. Each participant donate a minimum of £8
3. The publication is produced
4. We share the publications
which means each participant own a fair amount of publications and participants decide (collectively or individually) what to do with it.