So I’m back in town after visiting my parents down in Colombia. Since I travel in style, I took the Rolls Royce back, courtesy of Avianca.
Read more about the recent marriage between RR and Avianca here.
Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Flew in my Rolls back into town
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Care BEAR
Monday, June 11th, 2007
So among the horrors of war, an American tech company has somehow managed to add a nightmare right out of Akira. Cute helper BEAR-bots, there to assist you when the place you’re in is SO insanely dangerous, your higher-ups decide to send a droid. I’d rather have Cheerbear pick me up and take me over the rainbow.
Google Streetview
Friday, June 1st, 2007
I finally took a look at Google’s new Street View addition to Google Maps and it is truly amazing: you have a 360-degree street view which can be panned just by dragging on it. Just place the little fellow wherever you want to and take a peek of the city.
Why go visit places now when you can just sit on your behind and click your way through the world?
City Wall
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I just came across the City Wall on display in Helsinki. The wall “is a large multi-touch display installed in a central location in Helsinki which acts as a collaborative and playful interface for the everchanging media landscape of the city.” Content from YouTube and Flickr is gathered, displayed and updated in realtime while users navigate the content based on intuitive gestures.
For more info, check this link out.
I remember seeing some early clips of the same type of display being developed at MIT a couple years ago. Very cool seeing it operational and open to the public (or are they trained stand-ins?).
Via [electro plankton]
Maeda in London
Monday, May 14th, 2007A new exhibition of John Maeda’s work – Maeda:Myspace – opened at the Riflemaker Gallery in London a couple weeks ago. It goes through June ’07 so if you happen to be in London, go check it out, take pictures and upload them here 
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View a clip of the exhibition here
Read more on his blog here.
Mark Goulthrope’s Hyposurface on display
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Mark Goulthrope’s reactive architectural wall Hyposurface will be on display at the 2007 BIO International Convention, a Nanotech convention going on in Boston until well, tomorrow…
For those of you who haven’t seen any of dECOi’s stuff, here’s a link with more info on the Hyposurface at the SIAL.
His presentation of the Mirian Gallery is also very interesting.
You have to keep in mind that this stuff is over 3 years old, but the techniques are truly great and new parametric/reactive systems are just starting to catchup to Goulthrope.
Hawking’s flight
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
The news itself aren’t that interesting, I just think it’s plain wrong for the BBC to post this image. Then again, maybe that’s why I’m using it.
Read the news here.
Graffiti Research Lab
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007The GRL will be giving a presentation over at Pratt on Thursday the 12th at 6:00 pm. More info in their site:
Graffiti Research Lab
Thursday, April 12th
6:00PM
ARC Building, Lower Level
Digital Arts Lecture Hall, Room E-2
Projections
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007This might be the best possible use for an uber-expensive interactive projection…well, maybe 2-year olds chasing the ball for hours would beat it. Nah
My Maps Google
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Google has launched ‘My Maps’, where the creation and distribution of customized maps is a very simple process. ‘MyMaps’ gives you the ability to draw lines, create polygons and insert placemarks with just a simple click. Images and video can be embedded onto the description window as well (you’ll have to do it manually though). So, it won’t be long until we start seeing some very interesting mappings of cities. Guy Debord and the situationists would’ve been delighted.