December 2011
1 post
“The truth at any cost reduces all other costs.”
– Robert Steele
November 2011
2 posts
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
October 2011
1 post
“We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.”
– Ian Percy
September 2011
3 posts
Watch“Dave Asprey talks in Sweden about the lifestyle of a biohacker and his accomplishments.”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
– Yoko Ono
Watch“The Notepad looks like an everyday yellow legal pad of paper, however each line of each page of the notepad is constructed of micro-printed text and contains the personal details of Iraqi civilian casualties. Each printed edition of 100 notepads is covertly distributed to the United States Congress. Once in circulation on Capital Hill each notepad then acts as a Trojan horse - slipping the...
August 2011
3 posts
“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
– Jacob Burkhardt
“Biology is not destiny. It was never more than tendency. It was just...”
– Bart Kosko http://sipi.usc.edu/~kosko/GodEssays.D05/Heaven_in_a_Chip.pdf
June 2011
4 posts
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
April 2011
2 posts
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather...”
– Marshall McLuhan, via Proverbs of St. McLuhan
March 2011
1 post
Watch“Video and Effects: Patricia Wells
Sound: Brian Routh
Voice: Michael Parenti from a recorded lecture.”
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
“All irrational human hatreds are always about your own feelings about yourself...”
– Boris Johnson, London Mayor 2008
“Localize production.
Virtualize everything else.”
– John Robb
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
2 posts
“When you buy something cheap and bad, the best you’re going to feel about it is...”
– Sasha Aickin’s grandmother, via http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2010/09/groupons_success_disaster.html
“The things we fear most in organizations; fluctuations, disturbances,...”
– Margaret Wheatley (via @JoeGerstandt on twitter)
August 2010
2 posts
“I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius...”
– John Taylor Gatto (via @joegerstandt on twitter)
July 2010
2 posts
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like....”
– Steve Jobs
June 2010
2 posts
Watch‘The menacingly-named Human Flesh Search Engine has made headlines around the world, but it remains largely misunderstood and its deeper implications unexplored. Daedalum Films examines the origins of this Chinese Internet phenomenon, dissects its most dramatic cases, and asks the question: “what can the Human Flesh Search Engine tell us about modern China?”’...
“Building on the work of others is the only way to make substantial progress in...”
– P.J. Plauger
May 2010
3 posts
“Every Place a Riddle, Every Riddle a Poem, Every Poem a Spirit, Every Spirit a...”
– http://www.mythic-cartography.org
Watch“A SHORT MOVIE INSPIRED ON NUMBERS, GEOMETRY AND NATURE.
Go to etereaestudios.com if you are looking for more information: the theory behind the movie (Fibonacci, Golden Ratio, Delaunay, Voronoi…), stills and screenshots showing the work in progress. There are lots of free training materials and 3D workshops, too ;-)”
— http://vimeo.com/9953368
“…one of the ironies faced by a society that has reached the point of...”
– John Michael Greer http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2010/04/costs-of-complexity.html
April 2010
2 posts
“We have certain preconceived ideas about location in space which have come down...”
– A.S. Eddington
““The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he...”
– Leo Tolstoy
February 2010
2 posts
Watch“Musicvideo about the relation of light, music and architecture.”
— http://vimeo.com/9330391
January 2010
3 posts
Watch“The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.”
— http://vimeo.com/8569187
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become...”
– http://josephsoninstitute.org/quotes/karma.html
December 2009
1 post
Watch“A paper delivered at the 2009 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference by Jeremiah Axelrod and Greg Borenstein that describes how British cyberneticist Stafford Beer’s writing, infographics, and industrial design for his ambitious Cybersyn Project worked together to create a science fictional narrative of omniscience and ominpotence for Salvador Allende’s...
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
2 posts
Watch“Registration of the amazing keynote by sf author and design critic Bruce Sterling, “At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry”. He talks about its history, the cool side, the dark side and gives the industry some pointers to be successful.
Recorded at the Layar Launch Event on August 17th in Amsterdam where the Layar Reality Browser was launched for the world. See...
July 2009
2 posts
May 2009
1 post
Watch“Us Now takes a look at how this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.
Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager; and Couch...
April 2009
2 posts
Watch“Obscura Digital, the company has used their propriety software to control a giant HD light show spread across multiple HD projectors for a Mcafee ad. Think of it as using 3d graphics gear to make the real world look like video games, instead of using 3d g”
— http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=747_1240832889
“If imagination is not set to the task of building a creative life, it busies...”
– Laurence G. Boldt