October 07, 2008
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.
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September 04, 2008
Your name is Hugo.
I’m sitting on my chair in London, it’s 17:59
You searched for the word defibrillator on Twitter.
You found me.
That’s already (kind of) strange enough but that was not enough:
You subscribed to my updates on Twitter.
I received an email alerting me about it.
I check your Twitter page; not much info.
I check your website links (top right hand corner)
You manage a ICD user group blog in the Bay Area (SF I supposed)
I almost cried reading a few posts on your blog: it felt so close of what I experienced not so long ago, all the questions, the doubts… physically and mentally.
I read more and find this pictures of a tree encapsulated.
* picture by Hugo Campos - found here
I always found these natural behaviour beautiful - suddenly it struck my mind and realise why this picture is there, on your blog: the same thing is happening inside my body. I have a an embed object inside too, encapsulated.
I republished your picture on R-Echos: the tree and its metal protection.
It is a beautiful metaphor.
I twited about it and say hello.
You twited back with a link: a google map where those trees are, Google includes a 360 view in this area (not that common here yet) and suddenly I feel like super close to your reality knowing perfectly you are thousands of kilometers away.
I had to say it: It’s a strange feeling of closeness.
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August 29, 2008
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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July 22, 2008
* in fact it is out ‘already’: R-Echos issue 1
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