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Gotta get me some goals?.?
2007-04-17 18:32:00 It looks like it’s the week for getting tagged. Marc Rapp at Uniquely the Epitome wants to know why I blog. I’m flattered to be asked, and I’ll come back to it in a moment. This link-meme was started at the end of March by Alex Shalman, with the title, Gott a Get Goa ls. The idea ... More About: Goals , Goal , Gotta
Frank Lloyd Wright in Baghdad
2007-04-14 20:20:00 A colleague reminded me today that the great American architect Fran k Lloyd Wright had been involved in plans to modernise the Iraqi capital Baghdad , located on the plain between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. He visited the city in May 1957, as an old man nearing his 90th birthday, and, inspired both by Arab and ... More About: Rank , Right
My Thinking Blogger nominations
2007-04-13 12:08:00 I’ve been without the means, motive or opportunity to spend kwality time online the last few days, so it was with huge amusement that I found the excellent Pretty Good on Paper had written the following on his blog two days ago: Kuipercliff, one of a small but growing group of bloggers out there who are ... More About: Blogger , Nomination , Blog , Nations , Nation
JG Ballard doesn?t use MySpace shocker!
2007-04-09 22:10:00 Myspace is a terrible evil gated community of people with bad design sense and a pathological desire to be loved, infested with spammers, robots, stalkers, hotlinkers, bandwidth bandits, nightmare fonts, overcrowded backgrounds, autoplay songs (perhaps the biggest SIN), Rupert Murdoch, and perhaps the lowest signal to noise ratio on the entire web. So says Ballard ian.com on ... More About: Space , Shock , Myspace , Pace
I?ve done it again?
2007-04-09 16:21:00 Right, I promise this’ll be the last time I change the KuiperCliff format for a while. The Cutline theme is a lot cleaner and less cluttered than the previous one, so hopefully it’ll be a lot easier on the eyes. I do like the wide format that Silver is the New Black affords, but the ... More About: Again , Done
Quantum computer? Still none the wiser
2007-04-07 22:04:00 Did D-Wave really demonstrate “the world’s first commercial quantum computer”? That’s the question Technology Review wanted Geordie Rose, D-Wave’s founder and chief technology officer, to answer. He gives an emphatic “yes”, but there’s a bit of sliding around under questioning by skeptical TR editor, Jason Pontin. An interesting interview for anyone who, like me, has ... More About: Computer , None , Comp , Stil , Still
Bookquest resolved: James Lovegrove
2007-04-07 20:05:00 A couple of weeks ago, I asked if anyone knew about a book I couldn’t remember the name or author of, in “Book quest: The Ship“. Given that I even got the name of it wrong, it’s no surprise there were no respondents to my enquiry. Luckily, and prompted a couple of times by Digital Nomad, ... More About: Love , Quest , James , Ames
Slip the surly bonds of Earth
2007-04-06 20:45:00 A while ago I wrote about flying cities, so it was good to see that a company called Sky Windpower have come up with an idea for putting energy infrastructure in the sky (via Economist). Their Flying Electric Generators would be tethered constructions flying at 15,000 feet, and capable of generating more electricity than their ... More About: Bond , Earth , Bonds , Slip
Space Archaeology - Apollo 11 moon landing
2007-04-04 17:41:00 On July 20th 1969, over 700 million television viewers watched as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on another celestial body, Earth’s own Moon . This was as significant philosophically as it was technologically, and irrevocably altered man’s relationship with himself and the cosmos. It also spurred on intense scientific ... More About: Space , Archaeology , Poll , Apollo
Ilkka Halso
2007-04-03 18:50:00 What’s not to love about this? Thanks to BLDGBLOG, I learn about the Finnish artist and photographer Ilkka Halso. This image is from a stunning series, Museum of Nature. In keeping with some recent posts about insects, Halso also provides us with a Manual for insect construction:
Sounds like it?s April First
2007-04-01 20:34:00 Bruce Schneier reminds us it’s April Fool’s Day, with a link to an article on Indian NDTV.com, “Technology retrieves sounds in the wall“. Scientists have managed, after 17 years of secretive work, and “more than 255 rupees”, to extract remnant sound from the walls of ancient structures: They have extracted a few words by Aurangzeb from ... More About: Sounds , Sound , First , Like
Maggot Art
2007-04-01 06:07:00 I recently posted about machine art, with the thought that it might not be so easy to distinguish between the algorithms required for human artistry and for machine execution - both programmed sequences of implementation. I remember reading years ago that most insects are nothing but automata, and lack any form of free will (although ...
Ultraculture Number One
2007-03-31 17:16:00 How could you not be intrigued by a new magazine that has this image by Nelson Evergreen on the cover? Kali visits cosmic Shinjuku? Ultra culture #1 is available now, either as a print version or .pdf. It’s edited by the prolific Jason Louv, previously best known for Generation Hex. Keywords for this new magazine would probably ... More About: Culture , Cult , Numb , Trac
Putting the Log into Blog
2007-03-28 18:55:00 Another architectural meme, and so soon after the last one? Who cares, this is one serious log cabin. Nikolai Sutyagin’s mightily impressive über-izba is under threat from the town planners (like New York’s Broken Angel). There’s an intriguing back-story as well (links below). This gothic cathedral towers above the Russian city of Arkhangelsk, and would really ... More About: Blog , Putting
Why Bug Jack Barron was never made
2007-03-28 13:07:00 Bug Jack Barr on (1969), Norman Spinrad’s cynical, pre-cyberpunk novel about big business, media and the quest for immortality is a cult classic among sci-fi fans, myself included. As one of my favourite sci-fi novels, I’ve always wanted to see it made into a film, by a quality director who understands it. It’s been optioned several ... More About: Made , Ever , Never
Man/machine symbiotic art?
2007-03-27 15:49:00 Yesterday’s post, New media art anti-manifesto, included the phrase, “Man and machines can make symbiotic art”. Turns out this was part of the Symbiotic Art Manifesto of Lionel Moura. He uses autonomous Artistic Swarm Robots equipped with a variety of pens and colour sensors to produce pieces similar to Jackson Pollock. Is it art? I ... More About: Mac , Machine , Chine , Mach
Industrial artefacts
2007-03-27 05:50:00 The first thing that came into my mind this morning was a set of photographs I saw on the excellent PhotoGenius site yesterday. They showcase the work of Polish photographer Rafal Kijas, otherwise known as Szincza, and one particular image reminded me of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, who I wrote about in Æthereal Steampunk a ... More About: Facts , Industria , Industrial , Arte , Fact
New media art anti-manifesto
2007-03-26 21:27:00 The soundbites below are all from New Media Art in a Control Society, performed a few days ago in Chattanooga, TN. As the author Adam Trowbridge states, “the majority of the statements read were not original and instead shamelessly stolen (edited and unedited) from various sources: theoretical texts, artists’ statements, manifestos and paranoid rambling”. I’ve ... More About: Mani , Fest , New Media , Media Art
Bookquest: The Ship
2007-03-26 09:56:00 Yesterday, I had a brief flurry of correspondence with digitalnomad, whose blog is well worth checking out. All you neo-nomads, digital bedouin and laptop gypsies should find something there to interest you. During the conversation, the subject of the Freedom Ship came up, which reminded me of a novel I’ve been trying to track down for ... More About: Book , Quest
Invisible warfare
2007-03-26 07:51:00 There’s a good, short article by George Agnew at Architecture of Fear, called “War and Cinema“. It brings attention to the work of Paul Virilio on image and warfare, distance and, specifically, architecture. If architecture has often been the target of remote weapons, and technology now mediates warfare at distance, why don’t we just hide ... More About: Visi , Invisible , Fare , Warfare
Metaphor: Nature in Cyberspace
2007-03-24 20:35:00 Regular readers of this blog will know that metaphor is a recurring theme in the way that I view the world, and particularly the online communities that we shape and inhabit. I tend to take a fairly hard-edged cyberpunk position with respect to the potentiality of the web, which ties in with my views of ... More About: Nature , Space , Cyber , Meta , Pace
Sandstorms
2007-03-24 09:31:00 After a big sandstorm yesterday here in Cairo, which has left everything covered in a thin film of reddish dust, I thought I’d post this photo from nukeit1, of a sandstorm in Iraq: (via The Last Minute Blog) More About: Storm , Sand , Stor , Sands , Sandstorm
The Internet is s**t
2007-03-24 09:24:00 This has been around since at least 2003, but I’ve not seen it before. The Inter net is Shit claims that the internet has failed us all, and we need to start again. It’s all crap, basically; a URL is not a sign of quality; online journalism is mere hearsay and speculation, etc. The author(s) assume ... More About: The Internet , Intern
KuiperCliff analysed
2007-03-24 06:09:00 Mr Cave Blogem at Pretty Good on Paper has finished his analysis of this blog’s use of language, and interesting stuff it is too. It seems I’m churning out a few words that other test subjects didn’t use (1,741 of them, in fact), as well as not using some really normal words that perhaps I ... More About: Cliff , Analyse , Anal
Holding out, now speaking out
2007-03-23 20:26:00 Thanks to Tish Shute at UgoTrade for letting me know more about the owner of the house I wrote about in “New man-made island in China“. Bridge blogger Peering Into the Interior has a translation of a long interview with Mrs. Wuping. More About: Holding , King , Speak , Speaking , Hold
Here Be Dragons
2007-03-23 20:03:00 Continuing today’s unintentional maritime theme, this image of a sea monster from the wonderful Bibliodyssey blog: More About: Here , Drag , Dragon , Dragons , Drago
Language of the Blogosphere
2007-03-21 21:06:00 Pretty Good on Paper is running an experiment, attempting to quantify and qualify the vocabulary of the blogosphere. An unabashed non-programmer, he’s been doing things the long way round, with fascinating and entertaining results. In a twist on the now-ubiquitous tag cloud, he is constructing ‘vocabulary clouds’ that show how attached particular writers are to ... More About: Sphere , Blog , Blogosphere , Language , Here
Tokyo VR Project!
More articles from this author:2007-03-21 20:27:00 “We have tried data-ization for the main area in Tokyo by QuickTimeVR. But it is the reckless project.” Not quite sure what the blurb’s all about, but I like the idea of being able to zoom into panoramas of central Tokyo. The Tokyo VR Project ! from Plasma allows us to explore a variety of urban situations ... More About: R Project 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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