1. links for 2008-09-30

    September 30, 2008

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  2. links for 2008-09-29

    September 29, 2008

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  3. links for 2008-09-28

    September 28, 2008

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  4. A (long) Bunch of Links

    September 28, 2008

    I edited the R-Echos Links Page today and thought it would be nice to have those gems around here as well:

    * Piotch’s Bookmarks

    Autonomous Mutation
    Code and Form
    Digital Urban
    EveryOne Forever
    Findabilty
    Generator X
    iGargoyle
    WMNA
    O’Reilly Radar

    Digital Experience

    Reference Library

    Super Colossal
    Fade Theory

    Gamper Martino
    Daniel Charny
    Hyphen Press
    White Triangle

    Etoy Corporation’s blog

    Social Design Notes
    Manystuff
    The Style Press
    It’s nice that
    Vielip’s Bookmarks
    Unlimited Edition (Hexaplex)
    Flight404
    Information Aesthetics

    French things / Things in french
    La Revue du Design
    Richard Menneveux

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  5. links for 2008-09-27

    September 27, 2008

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  6. links for 2008-09-25

    September 25, 2008

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  7. 1906 flying steampunk

    September 23, 2008

    This morning i stumbled upon a picture (thanks Gmc) i’m reproducing below at a smaller scale:

    airship-1.jpg

    It’s quite a beautiful picture, with such a wide angle it makes you feel the city is at your feet. Upon closer examination, one can notice the city is in ruin. It has been hit by the great Earthquake an earthquake (* see comments) the text on the bottom left hand corner states:

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    PHOTOGRAPH OF
    SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS
    FROM LAWRENCE CAPTIVE AIRSHIP
    2000 FEET ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO BAY
    OVERLOOKING WATER FRONT.
    SUNSET OVER GOLDEN GATE

    airship2-text2.jpg

    more on the right:
    COPYRIGHT
    GEO. R. LAWRENCE Co.
    Chicago May 28, 1906.

    I didn’t know about the earthquake of 1906 - so i went on wikipedia to read about it. The page states from the beginning:

    The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 17, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other values have been proposed from 7.7 to as high as 8.25.

    Upon closer examination (look up the sky) I found this strange flying vehicle directly taken from the univers of Hayao Miyazaki.

    HM-flyingmachine.jpg

    Funily enough I then discovered the photographer who took the original picture: George R. Lawrence. Originally a commercial photographer with an abiding interest in kites and balloon, he turned to aviation. He started to build an aircraft at a factory in Chicago and (apparently) would be granted nearly a hundred patents for aviation-related devices.
    source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Lawrence

    It is interesting to discover the same fascination for flying in 2 different people, reconnected trough an edited photoshop picture. (see Miyazaki recurring theme of human flight).

    It reminded me of the helicoptere expedition Amandine had in Reunion Island. With all the amazing pictures she took.
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    It still have my own helicoptere to fix up and plug to my computer - I would like to have this one carrying a wireless camera to do some nice vjing with a view form top
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  8. UTF8 characters

    September 21, 2008

    ♥ ✈ ☺ ♬ ☑ ♠ ☎ ☻ ♫ ☒ ♤ ☤ ☹ ♪ ♀ ✩ ✉ ☠ ✔ ♂ ★ ✇ ♺ ✖ ♨ ❦ ☁ ✌ ♛ ❁ ☪ ☂ ✏ ♝ ❀ ☭ ☃ ☛ ♞ ✿ ☮ ☼ ☚ ♘ ✾ ☯ ☾ ☝ ♖ ✽ ✝ ☄ ☟ ♟ ✺ ☥ ✂ ✍ ♕ ✵ ☉ ☇ ☈ ☡ ✠ ☊ ☋ ☌ ☍ ♁ ✇ ☢ ☣ ✣ ✡ ☞ ☜ ✜ ✛ ❥ ♈ ♉ ♊ ♋ ♌ ♍ ♎ ♏ ♐ ♑ ♒ ♓ ☬ ☫ ☨ ☧ ☦ ✁ ✃ ✄ ✎ ✐ ❂ ❉ ❆ ♅ ♇ ♆ ♙ ♟ ♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞

    * i really like those utf 8 symbols - it feels like language shortcuts.

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  9. Collections

    September 20, 2008

    ● Yesterday, Pierre prototyped a new project which deals with database and the use of natural language to perform some maintenance task on it, it also auto-self-documents itself. Pierre refered to it as a thin layer of manipulation (software) on top of data.

    ⌥ Strangely today, I was considering the object of NONE (the name of this blog where I’m posting this couple of thoughts) and found some similarities (thin layer). I’m using this directory to record things, quote, anecdotes, images, projects, things i found, things i produce. The software i’m using is a blog; it uses the (forced by blog) time based narrative to organise those things.

    Picture 1.png
    A collection of collections - including R-echos issue 1

    ∴ In a way it is a bit frustrating not to be able to deeply record the (multiple) relationships - almost automatically - of the various elements i’m posting here. Meta data are becoming crucial to organise things in a records-all environement; and i wish i could organise the objects i collected by size, or by time i saved them on my desktop, or by time i uploaded them online.
    ∵ In this case, by recording things online using a blog engine I’m loosing some data sets that where embed in the file itself (Mac Os X saves data like created and modified dates) - also comes the consideration that recording all the meta data about the object itself in a manual (non automated) way would require a lot of time but would certainly proove to be more effective and accurate.

    ↩ R-Echos for example is an attempt at collecting research and reading, interesting projects or articles we come across on the internet. Originally th system i developped was recording a lot of data, including the provenance (source, via) as a separate entry in the database. When i switched the system to a wordpress based website, this provenance information was partially lost: i kept this meta information in the content of the post (as a link at the end, starting with via) but i lost the single entry from the database.
    The single entry in the database was useful in the sense that it was compute-able; i could produce meaning out of it: listing entries based on their provenanace is now a very resource intensive task if i were to develop a new Defragmentation based on the sources.


    Defragmentation is a series of considerations on data sets within R-Echos

    ** I’m using some UTF8 characters to begin paragraphs on this post in an attempt to describe the linear relation in between paragraph. I rememeber having read about press services (like AFP, reuters) using those symbol (sometimes abstract) to convey extra meaning to news they deliver (short bits of texts, excessively factual).

    *** i used the website http://www.copypastecharacter.com/ to get them quickly in my clipboard (very nice interface! from Konst & Teknik and Martin Ström).

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  10. None None

    September 20, 2008

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