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22 NOV 09
Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark) SAVE
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ou might not expect something typographically unique to come out of Toronto, a B-tier city that stands in the shadow of A-tier cities even in the minds of some residents. But the margins are where originality can thrive, and the typography of the Toronto subway is a prime example. It is also an example of subverting, ignoring, and actively destroying a special typographic heritage – quite an achievement considering that the type involved is almost a foot high and permanently sandblasted into subway walls.TAGS
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cityofsound: The street as platform SAVE
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It’s deliberately grounded in the here-and-now, more or less, so it will seem rather old hat to some of you. Which in a sense it is. And in another sense, it isn't. But either way, this was a better strategy for the task-in-hand, and in imagining the scene below, via a kind of narrative, it's still remarkable to even sketchily consider how much data is already around us, and is near-invisible to traditional urban planning perspectives. And I'd suggest that this data beginning to profoundly affect the way the street feels. Some quick analysis follows the narrative, raising a series of questions for governance, legislation and the public-private partnerships that also constitute the contemporary street.TAGS
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UnitedVisualArtists » Chorus SAVE
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Commissioned to celebrate the re-opening of the Howard Assembly Room, ‘Chorus’ is simultaneously an intensely physical and yet ephemeral experience. An array of motor-assisted pendulums, suspended from the roof, swing through the space emitting light and sound. As the dynamic system evolves, the rhythms revolve through chaos and return to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. ‘Chorus’ is effectively a new kind of musical instrument, one in which the spatial location of each sound is a critical part of the composition of the piece.TAGS
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Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Urbanism SAVE
New christmas lighting for the famous Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich. The lighting spans a length of 1.1 kilometers using 275 tubes of light. A special software controls 8,800 LED bulbs that changes the light patterns and ambiance continuously in accordance with the level of activity in the street and the progression of time in the month of December.TAGS
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19 NOV 09
KN | Kitsune Noir » R1 Radio SAVE
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This is something on par with Muji, where the essence of the radio has absolutely been distilled to it’s core. I think kids would get a kick out of this, and I’m tempted to add that I’d be inclined to start listening to the radio again if I had something like this in my kitchen. Really great idea.TAGS
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Counting WordPress: Statistics WordPress Plugins « Lorelle on WordPress SAVE
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It’s intimidating to write a review and listing of WordPress Plugins to show your blog stats when the WordPress Plugin Database lists 81 WordPress Plugins under Statistics. Yikes! And that’s just to start!TAGS
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Excluding your visits in Google Analytics | Computer Realm SAVE
[Your own visits to your sites can mess stats up, specially if your site is an average one which doesn’t get thousands of visitors, so by following the steps below you can exclude your visits to your site or blog from your Analytics stats.] somewhat useful tipTAGS
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No! Basic Google Analytics Tracking on Your Sub-Domain is Not OK « Catbird Analytics SAVE
[Since this is a fairly common situation, Google has provided an easily implementable solution for sub-domain tracking that results in your domain and sub-domain being considered all part of the same site. All it takes is one line added to the GA tracking code] how to avoid tracking your own pages as referring sites..TAGS
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Easy as pi: Astrophysicist solves riddle of Britain's most complex crop circle | Mail Online SAVE
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[The coded image depicts 3.141592654, the first ten digits of Pi. How is it done? Firstly, the diagram is divided into ten equal sections (a bit like a dartboard, or a cake sliced ten ways) because there are ten staggered edges located at strategic points around the crop circle.] pi in the sky crop circles.TAGS