At the taxidermist's

"what rocks my boat and keeps me going..."
For now this is just meant to be a rather sparse collection of things that tickle my curiosity, which happens to be rather volatile. Nothing really important, some things might happen to be design-related, but not necessarily...

Archive

May
21st

Mon

Mobile screens, portable audio devices, and untethered access to one’s familiar inner circle enable people to retreat from public life into privatised capsules. Recommendations favour sameness instead of difference and induce people to dwell in the known instead of stimulating serendipitous encounters. By making the city smaller and more predictable, urban apps limit the bandwidth for behaviour to consumption and cocooning.

— Michiel de Lange “Txt and the City” | http://bit.ly/MzPslU

Apr
2nd

Mon

The “New Aesthetic” is a native product of modern network culture. It’s from London, but it was born digital, on the Internet. The New Aesthetic is a “theory object” and a “shareable concept.”

The New Aesthetic is “collectively intelligent.” It’s diffuse, crowdsourcey, and made of many small pieces loosely joined. It is rhizomatic, as the people at Rhizome would likely tell you. It’s open-sourced, and triumph-of-amateurs. It’s like its logo, a bright cluster of balloons tied to some huge, dark and lethal weight.

— B. Sterling ” An Essay on the ‘New Aesthetic’” | http://bit.ly/HAlzki

Physical” means providing context: - Where am I? What’s around me? Location—mapping and descriptions - Who am I with? Participants—identity and relationship - What are we doing? Activity—process and current stage - Why are we doing this? Goals—intention and interest - When is it happening? Time—calendar and commitments [10] And “physical” means providing information—labels, summaries, meta-data, and deep descriptions—about the things around us so that we can understand our context.

— H. Dubberly “Convergence 2.0 = Service + Social + Physical” | http://bit.ly/HCe9YY

Mar
29th

Thu

Charade (1963)

Regina: Why do people have to tell lies?
Peter: Usually it's because they want something… and they're afraid the truth won't get it for them.

Mar
27th

Tue

Patently, art does not have an monopoly on creation but it takes its capacity to invent mutant coordinates to extremes; it engenders unprecedented, unforeseen and unthinkable qualities of being.

— Félix Guattari | Chaosmosis