This is a little project of mine that was born over a year ago in Amsterdam but went into hibernation for a while for obvious reasons. I’m happy to consider this is my first actual contribution to the web2.0 conversation. I’d like to thank D’arcy Saum, Richard Groenendijk and Nicholas Land for helping me out… Continue reading Constant Setting
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Quote of the day
“An iPhone is a phone you can FUCKING PUT DOWN for five minutes in order to PAY ATTENTION to the people who are in the FUCKING ROOM WITH YOU” From 2lmc.
What does design mean to you?
Not interactive designer, all designers are interactive! Lovely interview of Kars here, I think that conversation embodies the misunderstandings and challenges around the concept of “just enough prototyping” (mantra that Gillian Crampton Smith pushed at Ivrea) and the need to be dependent on technology when designing or be technology agnostic.
Email signature of the day
“I do not have the authority to obligate the government to make purchases.”
10 seconds
Images taken while sitting in Citizen Cupcake in front of the Apple Store in SFO. Girl in the yellow shirt from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on Vimeo.
10 seconds
It’s August finally and as a form of relaxation, I’m forcing myself to do some video editing, something I used to enjoy tremendously when I was studying. This one is for Karola. What is jewellery? from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on Vimeo.
Silicon Crescent
Matt put up a nice map of the startups in Shoreditch, glad we’re somehow web2.0 enough for that map :) View Larger Map
Sugar-coated city: the real Singapore
I’m writing this, half thinking I should probably wait to leave the country. Walking through Singapore, you cannot but wonder who really lives here. Impeccable streets (and I really mean impeccable, not a single piece of rubbish on any lawn or anywhere), very little public space or street benches, ads on the telly about parental… Continue reading Sugar-coated city: the real Singapore
Personal ubiquity
It took me a while to digest Janne’s post on why ubicomp is a broken concept, mostly because on principal I tend to disagree. It’s also a bit in response to Tom Coates’s altered version of his talk with Matt Jones that he gave at Foocamp called “Personal Informatics”. Firstly I think the starting point… Continue reading Personal ubiquity
Uneasy intimacies
I never thought ubicomp would come out of an iPhone app. If anything, Exposure has the power to connect us with objects and lives that were lived around us in the past, as long as they’ve been geotagged first. Matt and I had a look, sitting on our couch at home, and found pictures of… Continue reading Uneasy intimacies