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24 NOV 09
Fantastic Journal: What I Did This Autumn SAVE
'...Its loose, relatively unplanned form also allows elements of the unexpected to occur which is one reason why architects, with their fetish for form and control freakishness, don't like it...' - including short comment from me that ties a bunch of stuff together rather neatly for meTAGS
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russell davies: in praise of fragments SAVE
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'...The urge to write longer things makes blogging more considered and therefore harder. Some would say that's a good thing. Filtering out the chaff. I'm not sure. For me, blogging is about momentum and 'more considered' makes momentum harder. Interesting things emerged from the less filtered rush of words...'TAGS
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21 OCT 09
GRAPH A STORY WITH MR. VONNEGUT SAVE
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Anyone can graph a simple story if he or she will crucify it, so to speak, on the intersecting axes I here depict: "G" stands for good fortune. "I" stands for ill fortune. "B" stands for the beginning of a story. "E" stands for its end. (found via Tom Carden)TAGS
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13 OCT 09
Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2 SAVE
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"John Leighton suggested that the old borough boundaries should be altered to conform to a honeycomb pattern. Within a five-mile radius of the General Post Office all the sprawling, differently sized boroughs were to become hexagonal-shaped areas, 2-miles across."TAGS
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cityofsound: Sensing the immaterial-material city SAVE
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"I'm particularly interested in tapping into the content in such transactions, as well as their materiality/immateriality, as a way of understanding patterns of behaviour in what I'm calling the new soft city." ... Brilliant reference to Raban's sminal book.TAGS
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10 OCT 09
David Hockney's iPhone Passion - The New York Review of Books SAVE
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"The thing is," Hockney explains, "if you are using your pointer or other fingers, you actually have to be working from your elbow. Only the thumb has the opposable joint which allows you to move over the screen with maximum speed and agility."TAGS
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06 OCT 09
Watchification: Hyperland SAVE
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"In Hyperland, Douglas Adams’ ‘fantasy documentary' from 1990, Tom Baker plays a software agent who shows Douglas the future of television: Interactive Multimedia." - returning to a classic, I can still remember watching this for the first time.TAGS