(via Sci-Fi Airshow: Eagle 4)
Found this through Matt Jones. Love the way the copy is written in a very ambiguous way. What they’re saying is yes, this is about exhibiting props from movies, but they do fly! Nice and confusing.
(via Sci-Fi Airshow: Eagle 4)
Found this through Matt Jones. Love the way the copy is written in a very ambiguous way. What they’re saying is yes, this is about exhibiting props from movies, but they do fly! Nice and confusing.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.
Nice restrained interaction design project by Sebastiaan Pijnappel. Some comments on the design from a Co.Design article:
He [Pijnappel] says he took special inspiration from laying amidst high grass in a park.
“As you lift your head up slightly you can just about see a few people walk by. You see them, but they don’t see you, or at least that’s the sense of security and privacy you have,” he says, “You lower your head back down and everyone and everything is blocked from your sight again. Just as easily, swiping the grass halms aside exposes you, putting you in the same space as them and allowing you to say hi.”
Maybe we’ve been so busy breaking the 20th century recording industry’s machinery that we’ve forgotten to invent truly new, 21st-century music.
Been reading up on this fascinating project by Matt Brown. Short bits of music that fit together randomly and are thus suited to playing on shuffle mode.
In the end, the question I lodge against Homeless Hotspots and eVolo’s skyscaper pr0n is the same — is, in fact, the same I ask of all provocations, prototypes and “design fictions”: what specific, historical spaces, relations and experiences are they foreseeably likely to bring into being, for people and nonhuman participants both?
Week 62: In dreams begin responsibilities | Urbanscale
Some on-the-spot critique of Homeless Hotspots from Adam in these Urbanscale weeknotes.
Odd bit of video which apparently records the first encounter between Belgian film-maker Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and a Papuan tribe which had never come into contact with “the white man”.
What disturbs me is the fact that, except for the bit at the end, the soundtrack is replaced with some type of world music. It’s also impossible to tell to what extent this is staged.
But it did make me try to imagine never having seen yourself in a mirror. And the bit at the end, where tribesmen play with a tape recorder does have sound, and is therefore by far the most interesting.
Jean-Pierre Dutilleaux (via The tribe of Toulambis comes first into contact with white | VideoMan)
I’m a sucker for cooperative boardgames. This one — Flash Point: Fire Rescue — was pointed out to me by Tijn, the proprietor of my favorite local game store Subcultures. Need to play it soon.
Mechanically, the ability to carry over action points to subsequent turns is interesting.
And of course, you’ve got to love the montage of stock firefighting photos set to music here. To hell with objective reviews.
(via indieboardsandcards — Flash Point: Fire Rescue)
Just posting this because I linked to it in the previous post but the imagery is just too wonderful not to include.
“A device to wrestle with the STRONGEST ANIMAL IN THE WORLD: the rhinoceros beetle. This device includes a head-and-body mounted display that equips humans with the appendages required to interact (with the males at least). In addition it scales us and our forces to the beetle proportions granting us similar manipulative capacities and even playing field; an architecture of reciprocity.” (via Chris Woebken I Beetle Wrestler)