1. A couple of notes on the last interesting things i saw…

    - 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.

      some quick notes:

    • William James ‘Pragmatism’ published in 1907
    • Naive Set of Theory DDD15 - “passing books with notes” (made me think about dogeared books; read below; I will probably add it later to the DBooks website)
    • the notions of Rationalism (w), Empirism (w), Pragmatism (w)
    • Gödel ‘On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia ’ published in 1931 in Vienna(google books)
    • Einstein said that “one of the most interesting thing of working in the university of (Berkeley?) was the discussion with Gödel on the way back home” - or something like this.
    • the notion of Naive, Intuition
    • Paul R Halmos ‘Naive Set Theory’

    - 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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  2. 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.

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    (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
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  3. London TLK TLK

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    We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk - this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…

    The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.

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    August 29, 2008
    Categories: event, exhibition, experiments, memory, newly released, notes, offline, project, talk
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