Robot readable world by Timo Arnall “exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye”
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Robot readable world by Timo Arnall

“exploring the aesthetics of the robot eye”

(via dvdp)

appcessories: The MakeGo app let’s u build a car (we chose lego) then the app becomes an interactive car body! (or boat or icecream van)
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appcessories:

The MakeGo app let’s u build a car (we chose lego) then the app becomes an interactive car body! (or boat or icecream van)

A Ship Adrift | booktwo.org

James has built this beautiful example of what is art from a funidng and commissioning point of view, is tech from a BAE point of view, and is social from well creating life.

James is bringing ships to life and setting them free across seas of pixels and binary waves.

Yes, I know. I do love James.

but so should you.

McCain Installs The Smell of Baked Potatoes At Bus Stops

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.com

Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes’ systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter.


Taken with Instagram at Attenborough Nature Reserve
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Taken with Instagram at Attenborough Nature Reserve

Taken with instagram
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Taken with instagram

DRONES not dogs

vexappeal:

Recent headlines, edited to be from a near-future, with drones instead of dogs…

inspired by karl james’s #catsnotcuts.

Arrivals on Mashable

The updates were shown directly on the screen of a spare iPhone he gave his son and were designed to look like an arrivals board from an airport.

Arrivals on PSFK

Arrivals is based on a concept by Toby Barnes, who came up with the idea for ‘Where’s Dad,‘ a small glanceable display for his son that shows his current location when he is travelling. 

via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/foursquare-check-ins-arrivals-board.html#ixzz1lKUTtoxB

On Craftsmanship by Christopher Frayling

On Craftsmanship covers impressive ground over its short 144 pages.

Christopher Frayling was in charge of the Arts Council from 2005-2009 and his inherent knowledge of art and design makes this an excellent book.

A key battle that Frayling fights throughout is that of rethinking the meaning of craft - an ‘over-used and much abused term’. Some of this abuse comes from brands - he mentions recent campaigns from Levi’s and Camper that use the well soiled word.

However, advertising and branding tends to tap into the current feeling and Frayling acknowledges from the off that craftsmanship has ‘again become fashionable’. He cites Richard Sennett’s 2009 bookThe Craftsman as ‘timely and even urgent’.
Frayling’s eductional background (he taught History at the University of Bath) gives On Craftsmanship some decent weight but never alienates the reader with it. Instead, it couples references to the past with an eye very much on the future. For instance,George Sturt’s The Wheelwright’s Shop, is lauded (it describes events in a wheelwright’s in late 1800s Farnham, Surrey) as ‘of considerable interest to anyone who seeks to write about the practice of a particular craft, from an historical or a contemporary point of view’.
According to Frayling hand-work and mass-production existed side by side into the late nineteenth century. ‘The specifically English experience of industrialisation involved a close interaction of the two… it was not simply a matter of industry taking over from craft, but of craft within industry’. Frayling returns to this point with the contemporary example of smaller workshops in Italy working together and keeping stable through periods of economic turmoil due to their flexibility. He goes on to write of the possible future for this kind of making: ‘Industries of a few people, creating local networks with new kinds of tools, maybe linking with larger networks’.
The final chapter of the book is entitled ‘The New Bauhaus’ (which is also part of the subtitle of the book) and is a blueprint for the future of design education. 

The ethnography of robots — ethnographymatters.net

Alien Phenomenology: Or What It’s Like To Be A Thing

http://www.experientia.com/blog/the-city-as-interface-digital-media-and-the-urban-public-sphere/

this does not happen by itself

One day I want to do a PHD on this.

As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have the potential to make the world significantly more magical. We can make the everyday into the any day, especially if we focus on communication and understanding.
Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via timburrellsawardjournal)

Sparkletown « Metamorphiction

Ghost trap components: contact mics, sugar cube, matches, loudspeaker cone, glowbug (female), cassette tape, AA batteries (leaky), perfume.

Operation: place glowbug in speaker cone. Arrange mics in approximate circle. Set speaker to vibrate. Spray perfume on sugar: ignite.

The scent arouses the insect, causing the bug’s abdomen to light up. Play cassette. Observe: the ghost will crackle and dance in time.

All such fragments dream of being whole once more, of being a song on a lover’s lips, conjured from a tongue: verse, chorus and coda.

With such desire, the ghost is drawn towards the trap. Now softly, softly… close the…

Break dragged Dixie screaming from the tunnel. Her eyes wide, mouth bloody. Words of drawn-out breath: “Find it. Don’t let it get away!”