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how to photoshop graffitis on a wall – a must read
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China – carbon emissions in the light of western consumption.
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TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It léooks incredibly usefull and lets you consider recording audio and taking note in a new (mind blowing) way: brainstorm, talks and conferences, …
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The blog of Dominic Busby
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links for 2008-06-02
June 02, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, audio, carbon, cassette, design, economic, funny, graphic, installation, lcc, osx, photography, photoshop, player, podcast, poster, recorder, representation, sound, toys, tutorial, visualisation, web
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links for 2008-03-20
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R-Echos: how to create embroidery designs using images on your computer screen.
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R-Echos: Speaking at the first TED Conference in 1984, Nicholas Negroponte waxes prophetic on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design.
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R-Echos: for some time, most Walker websites have been without an important branding element: a favicon.
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R-Echos: It is a simple task to control small electrical signals which are carried by the wires attached to the printer port of IBM-compatible computers.
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R-Echos: 5 years ago, the concept of working from any location seemed alien to most employers, but in todays rapidly connected world, it’s more common to find cutting edge researchers working without the constraints of 9-5 and the office life
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R-Echos: a great visualization of what the candidates are talking about
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R-Echos: An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th
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R-Echos: image of the poster found on ManyStuff
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R-Echos: Issue Magazine, another new web-based publication looking at the changing world of publishing and design
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R-Echos Custom turntables: ”
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables – About 5 ye
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R-Echos Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008, Sci-Fi Author & Space Visionary: ”
Renown science
March 20, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analysis, anayltics, animation, architecture, archive, author, blog, blogging, bones, boxes, branding, candidates, chaumont, clothes, color, conference, container, custom, dead, design, details, display, diy, drawing, economy, embroidery, etd, fab, favico, flux, furniture, future, generative, graphicdesign, GUI, identity, installation, interraction, magazine, methodology, mobility, motion, museum, pipe, player, poster, printer, process, publishing, scienefiction, screen, sculpture, signage, stream, structure, tangible, technology, topic, touch, typography, us, visualisation, vynil, water, webdesign, website, writer, writing, zeitgeist
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links for 2008-03-12
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The makers of Auto-shop and Auto-illustrator – they made also the FinderMail a marveling application using apple’s finder as an inbox. Their software challenges traditional conception of softwares.
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Karrie Jacobs “From Eternity To Here” – Amandine commented on a R-Echos article, spotting and quoting this text
March 12, 2008
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Tags: 3d, art, ballet, body, bottle, branding, business, cellar, company, customisation, dance, design, email, excel, experimental, fiction, findability, game, generative, graphic, identify, identity, im, installation, instant, interface, messaging, module, object, organise, planets, python, restaurant, rfid, science-fiction, software, stock, technology, theory, to_read, tracking, txt, video, visualisation, web, wine
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links for 2008-03-11
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i like one liners; i like simplicity; i like twitter – what else? might be nice to combine it with the todo.txt
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nice combination of services: tumble + delicious as an automated rebloging system
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nice tool for visualising twitter ativity – i like the analogy to seismic activities
March 11, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: api, blog, code, coding, commandline, hack, javascript, jQuery, mashup, terminal, time, timeline, twitter, txt, visualisation, web, webdev, webtools, _theofs
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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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links for 2008-02-03
CountPosts v 1.0 – WordPress Plugin – Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)
Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)
r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)
Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)
r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)
YouTube – The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)
Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)
robotlab – art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)
Numéro deux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts – the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)
February 03, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: accessibility, architecture, art, beta, blog, book, category, clothes, design, drawing, edition, editorial_design, fashion, feed, godard, google, info_hub, interface, internal, link, movie, music, outdoor, performance, plugin, portrait, preview, project, quote, relationship, representation, robot, r_echos, sculpture, site, sitemaps, statistics, typography, visualisation, volume, wordpress, xml
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Defragmentation: quick visualisation and visual trends
Defragmentation’s process aims at reducing the fragmentation of data by concatenating parts stored in separate locations: a (partially) new visualisation interface made its apparition on R-Echos; its url is: http://r-echos.net/defragmentation/
It’s quite simple, and it shows the last 500 posts, each post represented by a clickable color coded square (a color is equivalent to a post’s category). The most recent articles are on the top left, while the older are at the bottom right. When hovering on a square, title and first image of the post are displayed. It allows for a quick visual browse, a single click brings up the article. It is a rework based on the former interface of R-Echos which was using lines of colors.
This visualisation was inspired by a re-post a little while ago in Pierre’s reblog (about blogs); the original post coming from Social Fictions, whose ideas was much more about the software way of processing with a limited amount of memory, mimicking palimpsest: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.This blog/blogject is a Janus head, 2 faced web0.0 monster sharing a memory-system styled on a palimpsest. When the limited memory it has is filled to maximum capacity it needs to reorganise it to make space otherwise it can’t store any more new blog entries. In doing this it has to try not to forget the old ones, but this is not always done with much success as memories confabulated over time become increasingly unrecognisable. This making space is done by the blogject and its functioning is modelled on how our brains interleave our memories: by dreaming. The resulting dreams are what the blogject publishes online.
The relationship between blog (and someone using it) and the blog-ejects rendered from/within this input is symbiotic. The blogject only starts functioning when memory reached a tipping point (being full), the blog can continue to accept new entries for as long as the blogject succeeds in freeing space, to which again there is an upper limit.
As an experiment in writing by a selfless-self (adjacent to automatic writing and the cut-up) there are two angles to this system: the blogject’s output and the stuff stored in the blog as its increasingly looses its integrity, are both written by a non-self. The purpose or meaning of this writing is not in the writing itself but in the interpretation of it by the ones submitting writing to its memory. This property too it shares with dreams.
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A blogject, not to be confused with a slog (a sensor log), is the bot rephrased in the language of the blogosphere. Unlike bots, software-based attempts at making computers speak with us in our own language, that only have to respond on user input, blogjects in theory are pro-active and possess their own threshold function to decide when to produce something. Obviously, systems possessing artificial consciousness are non-existent, and bots and blogjects cannot but interpret/generate input of which is the meaning is always relative to templates in its database not relative to the outside world as you would suspect a true AI would.
Each cube represents a segment of a colour-coded memory. Each black dot represents a free segment. While the palimpsest has free segments entries are added from left to right and from top to bottom. When filled, dreaming commences (and the blogject will eject-text) to make space. This results in chains sharing a segment and releasing one in the process. The neat crystalline order inside the memory that exists in the beginning will slowly become chaotic.The ideas behind the BlogJect are really interesting; it would be interesting to see such behaviour enacted on the R-Echos project, like evasive or digressive memory – it would never give the correct answer, but an almost correct one, though creating a sort of dérive inside the archive of the magazine.
It is also quite exciting to consider web software and web design aiming at the apparition and growth of a certain kind of new intelligent entities limited in some ways – a form of software reification, somehow.January 26, 2008
Categories: memory, newly released, r-echos, thinking loud
Tags: AI, color, software, visualisation
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