inspiring touch-related interaction design | re/touch: an encyclopædia of touch and culture
9 weeks ago
Interesting material on various historical/cultural resonances around touch, to bring into making interfaces richer & more thoughtful. To use for something. From Biella.
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Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990
9 weeks ago
Spectacular, simple, utterly straightforward historical directory of electronic musical instruments. Quite a few here new to me & a pleasure to discover.
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P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: News: Warm Up 2010 Line-Up Announced!
9 weeks ago
Noted for future reference: MoMA & PS1's music series in NY this summer. Some amazing lineups.
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BP gears up to win over Washington and the rest of us | Grist
11 weeks ago
Interesting to get a somewhat detailed account of the many fronts on which a major media campaign (in this case, BP doing their damndest to avoid any serious consequences from their colossally harmful, global-scale fuck-up) is fought today. The structure of patronage involved is very interesting, and utterly infuriating. Just like every creative worker online ends up being their own IP watchdog, so every major institution becomes its own identity manager.
Needless to say, if they had any class their entire worthless executive team would have committed ritual suicide on television weeks ago, but no such luck.
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11 weeks ago
Lessons learned from 13 failed software products « Successful Software
11 weeks ago
This is fascinating and useful in almost any discipline, I think. I would love to create a book that's just long-form interviews with people about projects that failed -- for all the different values of "failure" -- exploring how and why in detail. Doing history of technology makes you deeply aware how much failure matters, far more success in most cases -- it's often just the epiphenomenon of far deeper processes of failing.
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EightShapes Unify :: Personas Page Patterns
12 weeks ago
I wonder how fiction would read like if you used all this UX persona stuff to build your characters.
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The most feared woman on the Internet - Salon.com
june 2010
Learning about Netochka Nezvanova (the Chaz turned me onto her) ... fascinating stuff, to finish reading.
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Hacking the Academy Contributions List
may 2010
... which would be here. I should dig into the structure a bit more when I have more time. In the meanwhile, impressive! (Noticing that "un-" has become the new "post-" ... now, what comes after "un"?)
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THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive
may 2010
Following the THATcamp crew's work on their flash-produced book as an unbook learning case. Very interesting. Most of the action is happening over on their GDocs page ...
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stopping off place: Bruno Munari: IMAGES OF REALITY
may 2010
Bruno Munari -- one of my favorite industrial and graphic designers -- made a deck of teaching cards to encourage "visual education" ("the association of forms, colors and actions") in children. These look a. Brilliant b. Could stand on their own as works of art and c. Are much more needed by adults. To add to the collection of decks for aiding creativity, along with the Drift Deck, the Oblique Strategies, the IDEO cards ...
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Why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius - Smashing Magazine
may 2010
Good summary of the extraordinary career of _why?, the intensely secretive and funny coder, teacher, musician, cartoonist and gadabout who shut his own persona down last year. "We do our work and go."
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Being Social « Official Hibe Blog
may 2010
The Hibe project. Looking into this -- variant models of building the better social architecture.
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NEANDERTALS LIVE! | john hawks weblog
may 2010
I'm clearing out browser tabs as I take a break from work this morning. This article about Neandertal presence in the human genome looks really good and came highly recommended; I'll finish it later.
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The Public School
may 2010
The Public School, NYC. First encountered them yesterday when I went to 177 Livingston to see Molly Springfield's talk about her work. I really need to explore this further.
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hrheingold's crap_detection Bookmarks on Delicious
may 2010
Ongoing collection of hoax websites from various parties (movies, the Yes Men, etc.)
hoaxes counterfeits irreality chaoticfiction may 2010
Value Propositions
may 2010
This looks really interesting: about ways of extracting or demanding activity in return for perceived value online -- paywalls, graywalls, etc. Some experiments. Don't have time to finish this now.
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Peter Kawalek » Blog Archive » Ideas For Our Times: The Legacy of Stafford Beer.
may 2010
I'm really looking forward to reading this essay about the great, or at least enormously complex, Stafford Beer. There's a book coming out about his Cybersyn project in Chile with Allende, but if ever someone qualified for a full-on biography it would be yogi/poet/cybernetic Johnny Appleseed/management consultant/aesthete/etc. Beer. Going to finish this on the train one of these days.
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Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
april 2010
Obit for the creator of the instantly recognizable Anthora NYC cup. "On his retirement from Sherri in 1992, the company presented Mr. Buck with 10,000 specially made Anthoras, printed with a testimonial inscription."
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Program (Values in Design 2k10)
april 2010
Going to this workshop. Noting the program here for future reference.
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"Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data"
april 2010
db's talk is very useful for this obfuscation article I'm working on. Need to finish reading it but have other work to do right now.
obfuscation bigdata aggregation toread forpaper privacy contextualintegrity april 2010
Amazon Kindle: Recently Heavily Highlighted Passages
april 2010
What people reading on a Kindle want to remind themselves of. You can sort by book and author with a little work. Fascinating. (Mostly seems like we're noting affirmations and advice to ourselves. Like Victorians gathering edifying remarks for their commonplace books.)
kindle highlighting noted crowdreading consensus april 2010
YouTube - Gaspar Noé's Enter The Void - Opening Credits (HD)
april 2010
God, this is spectacular (turn up the volume!). One of the greatest credit sequences I've ever seen. It looks like a natively turn-of-the-millennium artifact. I loathe Noé but I might have to watch this movie anyway.
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sevensixfive: How to: Draw the Voronoi Diagram
april 2010
Instructions for how to draw a Voronoi Diagram -- I'm really interested in trying this. There's a lot about them I like and I want to have one pass through my drawing hand.
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Back of the Cereal Box: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde: Smarter Than You Think
april 2010
For the "there's detail to everything" file: notes on the programmed behaviors of the ghosts in *Pac-Man,* which are actually quite sophisticated under the circumstances, and even correlate with their names.
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Pruned: Wetground
april 2010
Playgrounds are underexplored as places where we're trained in how we relate to our bodies and the world. This is totally a step in the right direction: mud, rocks, wood, plants.
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Thoughts From the Man Who Would Sell The World, Nicely
april 2010
Interesting stuff on running web crawlers for pay -- particularly to sell off accumulated data from profiles on social sites & retail data. A classic case of the dangers of information mobility. To mention for the obfuscation project
crawlers contextualintegrity obfuscation socialnetworks social surveillance aggregation april 2010
Modcult: Floppy-ROM
april 2010
Wow. Ultra-obscure data storage media: 7" flexi-discs, published in magazines, to be dubbed onto cassette tapes, to be loaded into a MITS Altair or whatever. This might be the nerdliest form of digital stuff ever made. They're magnificent.
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Said the Gramophone: WU LYF
april 2010
Interesting & I think kind of important article about a band (WU LYF aka a bunch of stuff) that consists mostly of mystique. Part of a larger trend in the age of immediate accessibility towards creating secrecy, scarcity, a new underground when all the bohemias are so overfished (and you can tell this is a trend because this is the *fake* version of it, run by an ad man in London). Towards what David Lynch calls "the blatant esoteric."
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army man scans - JanJaap - Picasa Web Albums
april 2010
Scans from the greatest humor magazine ever written, *Army Man.* They're way too small, but I'll take what I can get. "If they can kill the Kennedys, why can't I get a decent cup of coffee?"
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Making the Physical from the Digital « Random Hacks
april 2010
Really interesting presentation about the movement between the physical and the digital from the archival and library perspective. Noted for my C&W2010 presentation.
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GAME: By Donald Barthelme
april 2010
What a fantastic short story. Julia sent this to me after we were talking about nuclear war, psychology tests, and the Distant Early Warning system.
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Steven Holl’s curious Thrilla in Manila « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
april 2010
Really good summary of why Holl's unbuilt Daga Dagatan project was so amazing: essentially the construction of a kind of urban trellis on which a community could grow. Beautifully done, a minimal intervention, the opposite of all those God-For-Dummies top-down modernist urban projects. (Too bad it never got made.)
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READIES.org : User's Manual
april 2010
A starting point for digging into Robert Carlton Brown's epic "Readies" project, a set of ideas and proposals for mechanizing text in the 1920s that pulled in Duchamp, Pound, Marinetti, Stein ... I'm astonished there isn't a good biography of Brown yet.
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www.1119732.net
april 2010
GYBE's tour website, part of that larger & very specific aesthetic carried through music, sleeves, images, and lots and lots of silence.
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translab. jesus contemporary. the burundi datalab project.
april 2010
Visual aesthetics in early computing -- amazing long gallery. Good to see all this together, the flow, the mood, the form over time.
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Go To Hellman: The Library IS the Machine
april 2010
Interesting looking post (that I need to finish reading) about library cataloging and data projects. Good chewy material on different kinds of identifier projects.
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Modcult: Gelb
april 2010
Nencini's "Gelb": an image kit, the gathered essential visual lexicon of a city (in this case, Berlin). Quite strange and lovely. Atomic elements.
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Brynn Marie Evans » Betacup: Demonstrating the value of user-centered design thinking
april 2010
The betacup is a really interesting idea -- or set of interlocking ideas. Lovely example of casual design thinking to solve multiple problems simultaneously.
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Etaoin Shrdlu: Salvation? Forget devices and work on 'modeless innovation'
april 2010
A good thing to be reminded of: don't work for devices, because devices go -- media melts away into obsolescence. Look for modeless developments. (I want to apply this to my interest in meganarratives, stories that transition from one medium to another, accepting variation and evolution, not wedded to television, books, the network, a given language ...)
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…My heart’s in Accra » Is Vietnam conducting surveillance via malware?
april 2010
For latter parts of the spam project -- mission creep with malware.
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Distributed communities and nodal subjects -- Gochenour 8 (1): 33 -- New Media & Society
april 2010
Got to remember to dl (when I'm on a school connection) and read this for my spam article. Interesting implications for how we define "communities" when we talk about things on computer networks.
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I'm a Python, and I'm a Mac. | Ask MetaFilter
april 2010
More places to start with the learn-Python project.
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From Zero to Python Hero | Ask MetaFilter
april 2010
Notes for me to follow up on as I start trying to learn Python.
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a preliminary atlas of gizmo landscapes – mammoth // building nothing out of something
april 2010
Making a case for smartphones in relation to Reyner Banham's famous formulation of the social role of the gizmo. Need to finish reading this at some point. I appreciate it that they take it back to the manufacturing process. Behind virtually every consumer artifact -- certainly every electronic artifact -- there's a big hole in the ground somewhere. To keep the specifics of that always in mind is to move towards hardware literacy.
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BlogLESS : François Blanciak
april 2010
Spectacular whimsical shapes with evocative names and forms -- notions towards a new architecture, but I find myself looking at them as shapes towards a new fiction, a new visual art, a new interaction ...
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AH Projects » Thesis
april 2010
Makeup patterns to interfere with facial recognition video systems. The future is going to look *awesome.*
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Fabulas Panicas, Alejandro Jodorowsky
april 2010
Wow -- some Jodorowsky comics from the sixties. Strange vision burning off each page. A proliferating Tarot deck. Like Dali said, "I don't take drugs. I *am* drugs."
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The lotus chair | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
march 2010
Topanga Canyon hippie modern: the wonderful lotus chair by the great Daniel Wenger. This makes me miss LA *so hard.*
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MNS: Bury The Hatchet - Black Hat Forum Black Hat SEO
march 2010
Good guide to the business of Mini Niche Sites in SEO - a mildly creative strategy for collecting AdSense revenue. For my spam work.
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Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One | Books | The Guardian
march 2010
The first in an amazing series by Arundhati Roy on the "Maoist"/tribal/mining industry/Indian gov't fucking mess of a guerrilla war in central India. Very insightful. Resource politics are a tragedy that never stops.
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Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels
march 2010
This seems like a really important, and long, collection of materials about curation, aggregation, museums and network knowledge practice but I'm too tired to read it right now. For later.
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Social Text: Periscope: Thirty years on: The Iranian summer of discontent
march 2010
Article about the context of Iranian democratic resistance that acts as a bit of a corrective to the (my) tendency towards naive techno-determinism.
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A system that’s worth its salt
march 2010
A really interesting new desalination system. Could be extremely important. To learn more about.
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…My heart’s in Accra » Makmende’s so huge, he can’t fit in Wikipedia
march 2010
Good article on Makmende and the complex cultural barriers that divide the Internet (or how we continue to make "local" space)
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Village sleuth unmasks US internet predator behind suicide ‘pacts’ - Times Online
march 2010
Outstandingly weird and unpleasant story about suicide voyeurism, assumed identities, the complex emotional advantage you take of people in the odd pseudo-intimacy of a late-night chat session. Need to finish reading this
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Britons queued at Ben Gurion airport as Israeli officials cloned passports | World news | The Guardian
march 2010
Interesting edge case example of obfuscation practice in espionage, using preexisting identities? The whole assassination is like a greatest-hits compilation of modern surveillance and counter-surveillance techniques.
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multicast » Blog Archive » Why the Internet is on the verge of blowing up all of our methods courses
march 2010
On methodology and the Internet. Need to read this.
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Amazon.com: Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World (9780415939904): Bart Plantenga: Books
march 2010
A book about the global history of yodeling I'd like to read at some point.
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Harrison White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010
Article on Harrison White, the sociologist Andrei intro'd me to, whose work seems really important to what I'm trying to do.
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Fihavanana – A Collection Of Field Recordings And Photography From Madagasikara – Mississippi Records #061 - Root Blog
march 2010
Field recordings of instruments and environments from Madagascar. To download and listen to.
music todownload fieldrecording tolisten march 2010
this is a456: Story of an Eye (and Another Eye, and Yet Another Eye)
march 2010
Essay on atemporality that I'd like to take a look at. (Joanne recommended it.)
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One on One: Christopher Poole, Founder of 4chan - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
march 2010
Moot interview to read for Wednesday
moot 4chan otaku interview toread march 2010
KARL LAGERFELD - Vice Magazine
march 2010
Interview with one of my favorite obsessive creatives.
lagerfeld fashion interview toread creativity march 2010
Reconstruction 6.1 (Winter 2006)
march 2010
Article on games in the Cold War, particularly chess, to model conflict, and artistic responses. I'd like to read this for the WRG.
chess games war coldwar modeling cybernetics fluxus metagaming toread march 2010
Kairos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010
On kairos, the kind of time I became obsessed with during my depression, and which I want to write a little about now.
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New Scientist spam economics image
march 2010
Nice graphic overview of some of spam's history and economics and cycles.
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Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
march 2010
Part of the distinct color palette that makes contemporary Hollywood movies look the way they do. The secret mood and tone of our era.
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My Four Inches Of The World: THINKING ABOUT MARCEL… [DUCHAMP, THAT IS]
march 2010
Great little meditation on "Opposition and Sister Squares," esp. the way it finds an unsolvable nonproblem in chess to allow a kind pure play to take effect.
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File:SNA segment.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010
Reno's secret monument on Wikipedia! The yellow dot is him, the network was generated by Andrei who posted it as the image for the WP sociology page.
friends andrei sociology graphs images social march 2010
Lombard effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
march 2010
The name for the way we talk louder in a loud environment.
noise speech acoustics techno-nature march 2010
DOUGHNUT PLANT | New York City
march 2010
Looks like an awesome place to write.
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Siftables: The Future of Play | Sifteo
march 2010
To keep an eye on: toys/games/data display based on small communicating units. Thinking about contiguity.
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An Interview with Rex Sorgatz aka Fimoculous
march 2010
Talking with Rex about Kinda Sorta Media and his other projects.
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