Electronest just released a new website: Seascape, for Susan Collins. Website has been built and designed in collaboration with OK-RM, and commisioned by Film and Video Umbrella.
* The show will open on the 4th of April at De La Warr pavillion in Bexhill-on-Sea. More info on the website.
March 29, 2009
Categories: art, designing, electronest, electronic presence, internal, memory, web design, website
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As Yet; still Untitled -> Unofficial new-akiba.com -> Day off.
Original image found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/1244185274/in/set-72157600283667645/
Photgrapher: SEIER+SEIER http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/
Text, taken from the flickr page (Seier+Seier):
le corbusier famously claimed that all architecture could communicate was ideas. and the original ideas of christiania are well put by the best buildings out there: an open community of equals; a deep distrust, no, dismissal of authorities – including architects; a deep trust in the creative potential of ordinary people when left to govern their own lives. modesty. individualism. sustainability.
today, there is a strong political will to tear the houses down. they are illegal, follow no building code, have no permits. the old copenhagen defense line on which they are situated must be cleared to protect the city’s cultural heritage.
but these buildings are cultural heritage too. and while the 20th century has left us all with a distrust of utopian and idealist thinking, tearing them down will be acting in a dangerous denial of history.
… this story reminded me a lot of the Manor House allotments being stollen for the good of the Olympics developers under the flag of the community development.
March 24, 2009
Categories: I Like, project
Tags: glass, house, shed
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On tuesday, I’ve been invited by Maki and Kajsa to introduce my work to their Art & Communication design students at Royal College of Art. The idea of this talk/presentation was to introduce them to as many as possible of the topics that are thrilling me at the moment; giving them an idea and some keys to understand and interact with the digital landscape that surrounds their practice as designers.
To do so, and preserve the coherence of the whole speech without getting to much into details, i decided to consider this talk as a live reblogging experimentation – and produced R-Echos issue 3: Live reblogging. I had a couple of bookmarks ready to be loaded in the browser, I also took with me a box with some nice things inside and a couple of books.
* please use the comments for details and further reference.
March 19, 2009
Categories: designing, event, r-echos, republishing, talk
Tags: electronest, live, performance, r-echos issue 3, reblog, reblogging, republishing, talk
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I just inserted a mini autolinking system in R-Echos: basically it displays links according to the presence of tags and categories in a post. 3 destinations are tested at the moment: Sang Bleu, Tlktlk and SuperMarketo. It would be nice to turn it into a plugin that could be neatly dispatched across a few websites.
March 11, 2009
Categories: electronic presence, internal, project
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* just started to learn a bit more Blender – that seems to be an amazing software. very flexible, the interface appears at first a bit over-complex; i think i start liking it.
February 13, 2009
Categories: drawing, generative, project, typography
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… what about my bookmarks and notes?
* it made me consider the portability and security of such data; just quickly googled and found this very nice post about making backups of your delicious bookmarks in Gmail. Smart!
** downtime are really the worst thing that can happen to you once you start migrating ‘in the clouds’ – downtime: either on your own server, services you relly upon, your own connection – what can be down to preserve the connection to essential data? i liked the idea of the .tel domains (i spoke about this some weeks ago in Emergency and Electronic Presence).
*** On a quite different note but with the same attention, etoy’s Mission Eternity explores territories of data accessibility beyond death.
January 30, 2009
Categories: electronic presence
Tags: backup, delicious, gmail, software
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* sounds like real friendship is going to emerge…
January 30, 2009
Categories: electronic presence
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Lately R-Echos continuous re development had to be stopped; the ongoing wordpress theme development managed to become so complex that any change or simple attempt at improving things resulted in an over exageration of the page’s loading time.
Tonight’s major update of the user interface was aimed at simplifying things: visually for the readers, for the server to display the pages quicker and also for us to be able to extend and redevelop things in the near future with more ease.
* mostly the interface will feel very close from the Anti-Chambre/None’s one – guess why?
January 17, 2009
Categories: newly released, r-echos
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January 13, 2009
Categories: found image
Tags: map, time, utc, world
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* just liking the various grey backgrounds of supermarketo pictures.
** Pictures taken by Amandine Alessandra.
January 12, 2009
Categories: experiments
Tags: colour
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Diffraction is normally taken to refer to various phenomena which occur when a wave encounters an obstacle. It is described as the apparent bending of waves around small obstacles and the spreading out of waves past small openings.[2] Very similar effects are observed when there is an alteration in the properties of the medium in which the wave is travelling, for example a variation in refractive index for light waves or in acoustic impedance for sound waves and these can also be referred to as diffraction effects. Diffraction occurs with all waves, including sound waves, water waves, and electromagnetic waves such as visible light, x-rays and radio waves. As physical objects have wave-like properties, diffraction also occurs with matter and can be studied according to the principles of quantum mechanics.
images found on:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/163039/37362/Spectrum-of-white-light-by-a-diffraction-grating
http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2006/12/19/light-bulb-diffraction/
http://rblabs.com/difgrat1.html
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/grating.html
http://kstars.wordpress.com/category/canon-eos-400d/
http://ctho.ath.cx/tmp/
http://rblabs.com/difgratout.html
http://www.holokits.com/holography_kit.htm
http://www.measurement.gov.au/index.cfm?event=object.showContent&objectID=9B873955-BCD6-81AC-1E00A4A8F55C7B4E
http://www.kozmiclazershow.com/effects.html
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Co-Di/Diffraction.html
http://www.universal-hologram.com/laser_parties.htm
http://rsc.anu.edu.au/~welberry/Optical_transform/
January 11, 2009
Categories: experiments, ideas, project
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* Christams time has been productive: Electronest got a new portfolio – there should be sometimes soon an update that gives more in-depth details on someprojects.
January 03, 2009
Categories: designing, electronest, project, web design, website
Tags: portfolio
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In the wake of the attack yesterday in Mumbai, a couple of thoughts picked across the twitterverse pointed me to a note referring to the use of Twitter in emergency conditions (via @timoreilly); people in India are active users of Twitter, Flickr and YouTube – the short note states the use of immediate/real time/near real time application and services during/just after the Mumbai attacks: learn from use of Web 2.0 in Mumbai. It delivers a realtime information of what’s happening. It is not only a ping that let the beloved know that one is fine (electronic presence) but it is also a raw information source for rescue team. Unfortunatelly, it could lead also bad intentionned people to monitor the same pubic channels.
How about a special kind of 999 where you could send any crucial information to authorities? Many information visualisation have been developped so far that could help authorities stay on top the instant huge flux such use could create.
Via my domain name provider: the .tel new TLD is a new extension for domain name. You can’t use it to link to a website – it means http://mywebsite.tel is not a web address, it is not WWW based. Instead, the DNS (Domain Name Server) is used to store you contact information and the whois is updated in real time. It means it is a container to host your information and one can imagine storing his/her own geolocation information as well as a new contact telephone, or a new snail mail address, or anything else using custom. The interest is the real time aspect of the thing. It gives you (or your device) a URL – somewhere on the internet where someone can ping you and see your status: online, offline, busy, … alive. (see also: Ambient post on Capacity)
It is clearly some of the first manifestion of the coming internet of things as previously described and explored by many peoples – see more reference on the wikipedia page: Internet of Things.
* ping: it is a reference to a UNIX command, a basic network command, that checks your machine can reach another network node from your local host. If your machine is connected to a network, any machine on the network can ping it in order to make sure your machine is part of the network.
** TLD Top Level Domain: this is the usually three leters that ends the URL of a website; most common are .com, .net and .org. Telnic is in charge of the administration of .tel domain name; they have a .tel FAQ
*** Twitter an instant messaging service. It is based on the notion of microblogging – blogging using text-only messages limited to 140 characters. It allows the very fast diffusion and replication of memes across networks of people.
November 27, 2008
Categories: electronic presence, network, technology, thinking loud
Tags: electronic presence, emergency, individual, internet of things, mumbai, ping, twitter
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A few weeks ago, we launched the &, Ampersand Make Production, a project in which people are supporting the production of cultural products.
This is an experiment in the economics of production. Our first issue is a poster and a text: AMP001. The content is clearly influenced by the practice we developped to maintain and develop R-Echos (http://r-echos.net) and we called the issue “R-Echos issue 1”.
* Recently Charlotte from Manystuff asked us to give more details about the ideas around & – below I’m translating in english our answer to her request:
Financing and the notion of Crowd Sourcing
Instead of using a single source of finance, grant or sponsoring -we are seeking to establish a principle of distributed funding, like a p2p network. This principle is applied as well to the distribution since each share-holder/participant own a certain percentage of the real thing produced, and each of them is able to decide individually or collectivelly of the future of his or her share of the production.
A series of economic experiments
This project is for us a laboratory. The poster and the text of AMP001 (the first issue) are a first test tube. We are just starting to be able to draw early conclusions, it is for us a little bit like a reduced scale LHC: we are launching something and looking at the results depending on the parameters of the launch.
An extension of R-echos (http://r-echos.net)
R-Echos is a website, a selection of whatever we find, see, read and collect online, it is our daily best picks; it is a reblog that we have been maintaining for some years now. The poster of this first issue shows tangible objects that belongs to our every day life ans surround us: things on our desks, books in the shelves, visuals references that inspired us for some reasons – we consider those objects as being the sources of the project we develop and realise (like in programmation); we really consider R-Echos like being one of the source-code of Electronest.
french version:
le financement et la notion de crowd sourcing
au lieu de s’en remettre à une seule source de financement, ou à un principe de sponsoring – nous cherchons à mettre en place un financement distribuée comme un réseau p2p. Ce principe s’applique également à la distribution, puisque chaque Share Holder possede un certain pourcentage de notre production et est en mesure de decider individuellement (ou cellectiveemnt) du futur de sa part de la production.
une serie d’expériences économiques
ce projet est un laboratoire pour nous. Le poster et le texte de AMP001, c’est une première éprouvette. On commence tout juste à pouvoir tirer des conclusions. c’est un peu comme un micro-LHC pour nous: on lance un truc, et on regarde ce que ça produit en fonction des paramètres de lancement
une extension de R-Echos — http://r-echos.net
R-Echos est un site internet, une sélection de ce que l’on lis/trouve online, nos “best picks” quotidien; c’est un reblog que l’on fait depuis quelques années déjà. Ce poster contient les objets qui nos entourent et nous inspirent — c’est un peu comme un code-source des choses que l’on fait, on considère le site de R-Echos comme étant un des codes-source de Electronest.
* Here is also a short text I put on the facebook group a little while ago, it links the ideas of & and the ones of etoy.SHARE:
obviously, there’s some sort of inspiration taken from etoy.SHARE.
In the & Make Production project, shares are project based and they determine if the project is interesting enough to make it to the production step. if not shareholders will be able to decide how they want the money to be used: refund, re-investment in the next publication or in the structure itself, etc.
Shareholders are sharing the destiny of the project which we don’t control anymore.
November 09, 2008
Categories: electronest, experiments, ideas, internal, project, r-echos, republishing, tangible, thinking loud
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- went to Photographers’ Gallery (Soho archives, and Dryden Goodwin who remided me a lot of facial recognition graphs) and the Saatchi Exhibition (Revolution Continues – a very figurative selection of chinese artists – the piece in the “cellar” was the most exciting). Later in the day: went to the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition; saw (mainly and amongst other things) agrifashionista.tv and Urbania’s installation: a red room reporting on their various experiments about communal life and projects.
- went to the Friday’s DotDotDot lecture at Somerset House; link: DDD17 / talk.
- thought about making a website which like Dog Eared Books would list the films i like, quoting them; a sort of personnal memory. It comes from the fact that this year we have been increasingly watching more and more films every week (Amandine being back at university, we have access to the LCC’s library and their DVDs – just great!)
- watched (amongst other DVDs) ‘A Pervert Guide to Cinema’ – an interresting documentary on perversion trough a couple of selected movies; more specially: this documentary is a very nice Republishing piece along with commentaries: trying to organise the Tlktlk discussion on the topic of republishing and to set a list of guests.
- discovered about Edgser Dijkstra self re publication and Piet Schreuders’ Furore via Pierre.
- went yesterday to the Social Pasta: Maki, Kajsa, Alex (the rich one), Bearen and Momoko were cooking while we watched 2 films: one 20 minutes documentary by les Blanks ‘Werner Herzog eats his shoes’ (YouTube 1, 2) and Errol Morris’ film: Gates of Heaven. Amazing combination and the food as usual was incredible!. And they all had really nice shoes…
* the documentary is a beautiful support and encouragement at self initiated projects.
- Werner Herzog: “I am more and more convinced that the only alternative to film making is cooking. Maybe there’s another alternative which is walking”.
He also said “I don’t believe you have the guts (to make your film), but if you do it, I come to brooklyn eat my shoes when you show the film”.
November 08, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, notes, republishing, talk, thinking loud
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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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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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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.
(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
Categories: designing, memory, notes, thinking loud
Tags: design, hackability, infrastructure, methodology, process, structure
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* after much trials, hesitations, and changes, i decided to radically simplify http://jeromerigaud.com – it now acts mainly as a contact hub which dispatch then links and information.
October 05, 2008
Categories: electronic presence, internal, web design
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● I quite like the final take on this matter; it emphasize a side of the often criticised web2.0 not that often underlined: the recommandation principle where you trust your friend.
Do we get the blogs we deserve? We vote by click, after all. Perhaps we shouldnt look at all those top 10 lists and Britney Spears photos. Successful blogs, such as Zen Habits, tend to balance the more fast-food type posts with longer, more complex ideas that will presumably keep readers coming back—although there are plenty of people who make a living posting dubious crap. Perhaps the escape route out of a hit-driven blogosphere is all of our newfound “friends.” The Internet has always been very good at counting page views but not so great at assigning value to whats actually in those pages. Facebook, FriendFeed, StumbleUpon, and the sharing feature of Google Reader have their annoying, nudgy aspects, but they allow us to rely on one another to sort out what is interesting and worthy. Put it on a T-shirt: Friends Dont Let Friends Read Bad Content.
How do bloggers make money? – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine
(Via Design Notes)
October 04, 2008
Categories: I Like, ideas, thinking loud
Tags: blog, business, filter, infohub, money, ocntent, quality, quote, recommendation, web2.0
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