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Labanotation is a standartizied system for analysing and recording any human motion.
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The Intel Mac mini’s case is just like that on the PPC model and can be opened by prying upward with a sharp putty knife while working your way around the bottom of the case
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links for 2008-04-07
April 07, 2008
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Tags: alphabet, apple, body, diagram, gesture, hardware, howto, language, macmini, memory, motion, movement, music, notation, performance, tutorial, upgrade
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links for 2008-02-22
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a mini server; quite amazing stuff: my mac mini looks like big next to it
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this post is about font size and how to determine it; very interesting reading for anyone presenting information on screen.
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how to handle hanging ponctuation on the web, with explanation on the css side of things – with pierre we are developing set of javascript to handle those. it’s nice to see many effort pointing towards betterising typography on screen/web
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how to exclude your own visit from google analytics stats, a practical howto. interesting technique involving the use of a cookie, which is signaling who you are to the tracking system.
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Today, we had a meeting Duncan and I – and it’s always a pleasure to discuss about architecture, cycling, design, business, web things, and life in general – those guys are not only doing nice products for your bicycle needs: they *are* nice!
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film director of Dead man’s shoes & This is england, both out on Warp films.
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the website state: Warp Films is an independent film production company which aims to mirror the ethos of its partner music label Warp Records
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known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues
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Warp X is hoping to “retox” the world of British film by providing a one-stop-shop for creative film talent
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php and apache to mod rewrite – the beginning of a home made class – interesting reading
February 22, 2008
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Tags: analytics, bicycle, bike, cinema, code, company, design, dev, director, electronic_presence, england, film, filter, font, frontyard, furniture, google, hardware, howto, linux, movie, movies, music, outdoor, pc, php, ponctuation, production, rack, storage, text, typography, uk, url_rewrite, video, web, webdesign
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links for 2008-02-11
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Tommi found a couple of nice trick on wordpress this weekend; this one is naked wordpress theme so that it’s easier and faster to kick off a custom theme design.
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via Tommi (again) – let’s you replace any html text by a flash file generated on the fly which let’s you use custom not standard typefaces…
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nice writing about a Moleskine competitor
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Via Markus – another rant against FaceBook after the one send by Adriana, makes me wonder why not to start a kind of workshop to teach people how to get the same thing as FaceBook with their own tools and intelligence
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it seems like electricity is magic!
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Laxton fields seems to be the last common land in the UK after the enclosure; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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This term marked the end of the Common Land, the open field system in the UK
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WordPress can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.
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to check; it seems to crash with WP2.3.3 but it might be just a problem of header
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another Flash text replacer for WordPress
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Father of the modern Chemistry; he established that matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged (Conservation of mass Law). This evening, Amandine used it very nicely to explain her work.
February 11, 2008
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Tags: article, chemistry, common, custom_query, development, electricity, flash, flickr, font, fonts, hardware, history, internet, life_hack, light, map, moleskine, neon, networking, php, plugin, politics, privacy, reference, self_organisation, sifr, sketchbook, social, theme, typography, webdesign, wikipedia, wordpress
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links for 2008-02-04
what vs. how (tecznotes)
nice writing about design process at stamen. It is nice to see Pierre and I, we are actually quite right with all the thoughts we are giving about ElectroNest and how to manage the company/work/life – it’s all about utopia! :)
(tags: design process)internet usage statistics origami – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
a very nice tangible visualisation of internet traffic and flows; it reminded me the logo electronest designed for my own electronic presence on http://www.jeromerigaud.com
(tags: visualisation tangible schema statistics sculpture origami internet traffic paper)Declutter Your Desk how to make space on your desk – everything is hidden in the shade, still accessible but not messing all around (tags: ***** desktop hardware ideas lifehack organization productivity)
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography I quite liked the book of Robert Bringhurst – now, it seems like there is a nice web equivalent with the very specific issues of typography on screen (lower resolution, less control) (tags: screen typography webdesign ***** design display)
Creating a Color Scheme some explanations and insights about the color parameters and values I used to manipulate in picture editing software without knowing what it meant exactly (degreee, etc.) (tags: color howto tutorial photoshop hue degree)
How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks WordPress with a bit of subtlety: separating comments and trackbacks (tags: wordpress hack code custom)
Koyaanisqatsi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “It’s not that we use technology, we live technology” – amazing and brilliant movie. it is the first of a trilogy (tags: film inspiration slow_motion technology nature society explosion)
CommentPress an amazing plugin that let’s you comment posts on a per paragraph basis; it brings feelings somehow of taking notes with a pen in the margins of a real book. (tags: wordpress comment plugin textuality discussion)
February 04, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, code, color, comment, custom, degree, design, desktop, discussion, display, explosion, film, hack, hardware, howto, hue, ideas, inspiration, internet, lifehack, nature, organization, origami, paper, photoshop, plugin, process, productivity, schema, screen, sculpture, slow_motion, society, statistics, tangible, technology, textuality, traffic, tutorial, typography, visualisation, webdesign, wordpress
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The Way Things Go: art, zen & hardware crash
Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings, today I’m looking at cause & consequences…
The magic number: 7.01 and how to get prepared for the worst…Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings – in the flow I came to speak about Fischli & Weiss, 2 swiss artists who did the ‘How To Work Better’ a kind of process manifesto.
They also did a film most of you have certainly heard about: ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ (aka The Way Things Go). The video – which I loved so much since I first saw it in the Marc Bretillot’s course back in the days when I was in fine art in ESAD in Reims – is described as follow:
Film stills from Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go (1987); on Youtube there’s a short extract and a link where to buy your own copy.Inside a warehouse, a precarious structure 70-100 feet long was constructed from various items. If this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues fire, water, gravity and chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects and things. So begins a story about cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
Well … yesterday, my beloved MacBook suddenly died. I mean it freezed, and then refused to boot, displaying a folder with a question mark. That seems to be a very well known issue with a certain type of Seagate hard drive with a firmware revision 7.01 – if you are the happy owner of a MacBook, I encourage you to check your serial numbers.
3 screenshots on how to retrieve your serial number. In the background a nice trick from lifehacker: Keep A Scratch Pad Of The Day, I am also a moleskine-geek which I think is a good way of envisionning vital data backupMyself, I have been lucky enough to see the early reports about this Seagate harddrive issue and I had luckily time to backup the faulty drive. I nonetheless lost a few files and a few precious hours of rest, I also stressed a bit but I can’t help but think there‘s definitely some sort of zen to practice: learn to (better) let go and let’s things go the way things go… but as I deeply appreciate the precepts from the chinese tactician Sun Tzu (see KD01k The Art Of war), I also like to keep things ready for the worst: all I have to do now is to replace the dead and faulty seagate harddrive (there’s a PDF from Apple documenting the procedure to remove and replace a hard drive from a macbook – nothing too scary once you know how it used to be in the recent past) by a spare new Samsung, taken from a mini Porsche LaCie drive I bought in November (just in case) and re install everything back in its order.
KD01k – ‘The Art Of War’ the original text written in 3000 BC by Sun Tzu and his disciples is designed according to its own structure; a generative design principle is applied with a set of rules based on statistics and ponctuation.
* Marc Bretillot website Cullinaire Design et autres façons.
January 14, 2008
Categories: electronest, generative, memory, offline, thinking loud
Tags: apple, art, hardware, process, work, zen
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Analog information – books
Those 2 volumes are each dedicated to a specific part of the project; the first volume is all about the original text to speech and speech to text process. The second volume adresses the moment when we turned the role of the speaker into a singer – using the iTunes library we found on the hard drive of the computers: one computer was singing the tunes while the other attempted to interpret what it was listening to into text.
Both books use the Jawut typeface which has been developped specifically for it.
May 29, 2006
Categories: book, data beautification, designing, generative, poetry, typography
Tags: book, discussion, hardware, text to speech, typography
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