“Shards present our eyes with a problem, and unwittingly we cast around for patterns, assembling pieces into shapes.”- pg 124, The Object Stares Back.
for a full resolution of the image go here
December 5, 2009
November 18, 2009
interface.
the interface is always in flux.
November 9, 2009
Reflexivity
finally beginning to render out the full-scale version of this monster After-Effects composition.
November 4, 2009
Climate Data visualized
view the graphic here.
Built using Gtween’s multi-sequencer.
from “the measure of reality“- Alfred Crosby
pg 131.
Crosby quoting J. Huizinga, the Waning of the Middle Ages…
“one of the fundamental traits of the mind of the declining middle ages is the predominance of the sense of sight, a predominance which is closely connected with the atrophy of thought. Thought takes the form of visual images. Really to impress the mind a concept has first to take visible shape.
November 3, 2009
One Hundred
“Where you put your eye, you put your bullet”- pg 76,
September 9, 2009
the City
Paul Romer from TED talks..
“Romer asserts that we must preserve choices for people and operate on the right scale. A village is too small and a nation too big. Cities give you the right balance. The proposal is he conceives of is a charter city with investors to build infrastructure, firms to hire people and families who will raise children there. All he wants is some good rules, uninhabited land and choices for leaders, which he thinks should translate to partnerships between nations
He notes that some of the audience might be starting to think is this bringing back colonialism. Romer urges everyone not to let the emotions that come up get in the way and shut down new ideas. He says that colonialism involved coercion and condescension — this model is about choice, which is the antidote to those two.”
cross referenced with…
“…But what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always changing, to meet exactly the changing shape of its very worst secrets?”- pg 173, Gravity’s Rainbow
cross referenced with…
“…These mixtures of co-existing “ages” are not something new but have always characterized human history. Medieval towns were both linguistic and epidemiological laboratories, and many things accumulated within their walls: money, skills, weeds, cattle, manuscripts, prestige, power.” -pg 268, A thousand years of non-linear history
July 18, 2009
Massumi
“Another interstitial void, sundering with brain waves and fingers and word processor keys and paper pulp and consonants. The expressiveness of thought getting packed into letters and phonemes, into forms of content which enter other causal circuits:speech, print, and electronic media. Thought surrendering itself to pen and pixel.” Brian Massumi, “A user’s guide to capitalism and scizophrenia” pg 15.
crash
pixel by pixel screen crash…
Koolhaas on Modernization
“Modernization had a rational program: to share the blessings of science, universally. JunkSpace is its Apotheosis, or meltdown….Although its individual parts are the outcome of brilliant inventions, lucidly planned by human intelligence, boosted by infinite computation, their sum spells the end of Enlightenment, its resurrection as farce, a low grade purgatory…Junkspace is the sum total of our current achievement; we have built more than all previous generations together, but somehow we did not register on the same scales. We do not leave pyramids. “-Content, pg 162
wired article
“Wikipedia, Flickr, and Twitter aren’t just revolutions in online social media. The’re the vanguard of a cultural movment. Forget about state ownership and five year plans. A global collectivist society is coming-and this time you’re going to like it.” – from title by Kevin Kelly in Wired-Jun 2009