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Twitter & the informations layer

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:12:00 +0000

this morning i received the newsletter of Twitter:

Hacking The Debate

Tonight we expect the most activity Twitter has ever seen as
vice presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debate live
from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The folks at
Current TV are making history by broadcasting Twitter updates on
live television during this debate. Will you see your updates on
television? Be sure to tune in or watch the streaming version of
Current TV's "Hack The Debate II" at http://current.com/debate

* it is really nice to see a web service based on short and unobstrusive discussions enabling the realtime comments on a Tv show (streamed) - it would be nice to see this happening on a larger TV show - could it be the rebirth of TV? You could select if you want to see BBC with or without comments... I wonder what it would be like.

Event Aggregator for the London Art & Design Events

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:40:00 +0000

Tlktlk is in and around London - sometimes a bit further. tlktlk acts mainly as a calendar to gather friends to nice events. It helps you turn off your computer and meet real people. Try it and love it.

Tlktlk will focus mainly on art and design related events (exhibitions, solo show, group show, small gallery or bigger institution, single artist performance or conceptual graphic design student experiments) - but might from time to time make music, concert and party to the headlines or even movie, projections, opening and picnic or bbq.

website: Tlktlk is our daily dose of nice events- in London

None moved

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:27:00 +0000

None moved somewhere else

1/2 electronest

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:09:00 +0000

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Originally uploaded by Amanda Alessandrine

Amandine took some nice pictures of us when working with Electronest on a new publication.

nice readings

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:55:00 +0000

This morning Tommi bookmarked two interesting articles; both were excellent and very invigorating reading.

1/ Stratfor on The Geopolitics of $130 Oil on the actual global economical and political situation to high rise of oil barel
Oil prices have risen dramatically over the past year. When they passed $100 a barrel, they hit new heights, expressed in dollars adjusted for inflation. As they passed $120 a barrel, they clearly began to have global impact. Recently, we have seen startling rises in the price of food, particularly grains. Apart from higher prices, there have been disruptions in the availability of food as governments limit food exports and as hoarding increases in anticipation of even higher prices.

2/ Andrew Hargadon writing about the causal confusion when one observes outputs and imagine rules without taking into consideration a wider picture.
The problem of causality plagues a lot of variance-driven research. Causality is, as it sounds, an attempt to clarify whether one action actually causes another. How scientists study this causal relationship is by looking at how variation in one action (the independent variable) causes variation in another (the dependent variable). Sounds simple. Until you want to study something interesting, like people.

90 degree

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:32:00 +0000

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Originally uploaded by jrgd

Human Computation

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:00 +0000

Aurelien Froment at RCA

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:58:00 +0000

diagram01

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:57:00 +0000

diagram01
Originally uploaded by andreas schlegel

Amandine's Sun Glasses

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:57:00 +0000

Amandine's Sun Glasses
Originally uploaded by jrgd

Michael Marriot XL1 prototype

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Michael Marriot XL1 prototype
Originally uploaded by jrgd

The Information Machine (1958)

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:32:00 +0000

CMYK setup

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:34:00 +0000

CMYK setup
Originally uploaded by Amanda Alessandrine

Field Notes versus Moleskine Cahier

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:48:00 +0000

Field Notes versus Moleskine Cahier
Originally uploaded by asr-cascadian

From left to right, a black Moleskine cahier, a Field Notes notebook, and a "natural" (or whatever they call it) Moleskine cahier sporting some additions of my own.

The Moleskine's cover is thicker and darker than the Field Notes', and you may be able to tell the Moleskines' covers are stiched whereas the Field Notes is stapled.

Laxton Field System

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:16:00 +0000

Laxton Field System
Originally uploaded by DodoPappa

Tube & Field Study

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:29:00 +0000

Tube & Field Study
Originally uploaded by Matthew Wahl™

amazing!

i quite like the effect, even though it certainly is bad for the health.
sounds like mad scientist experiments i can't help but to link to MMD project: http://textasplayground.net/assembling/2006/03/28/mass-media-unit-memory/

Live Networked Typographic Performance

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:37:00 +0000

http://textasplayground.net/assembling/

A little while ago, Electronest has been invited in Bruxels for the opening of the Furniture Fair by Studio Jerzey Seymour for webjying on the Dynamo Dreesen live set. We developped a visual set based on typography using essentially a home made software which was grabbing news headlines and dispalying/reacting in realtime to the Dreesen live set.

http://www.myspace.com/dynamodreesen
http://acido-records.com/

Mine, Drugs and Video Game

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Matthew Smith Interview Manic Miner ZX Spectrum - the weird destiny of a video game genius. I can't help but feel sad for this pioneer of the ZX spectrum.

The footies

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:37:00 +0000

Digitalism Idealistic - the design story

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:19:00 +0000

Geodesic dome design for Digitalism Idealistic Lp cover design is where i draw connections between the various elements of the design and the story behind it. You will also find a selection of links to build your own and look further into Buckminster Fuller.

My new plane

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:07:00 +0000

I went to meet Shane Bradford at his studio today - and look what I took back with me...

Shane's website: http://shanebradford.com/

Mass Media Diving unit - demonstration

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:42:00 +0000

The Mass Media Diving unit is a tangible interactive design experiment: fluxes of information on the internet as poetic element; it used tactile, audio and visual activation of the user along with NO2 gaz (laughing gaz) to make one feel the ongoing information's flow poetics.

A 4 years adventure: Kitsune website, design and development

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:27:00 +0000

It has been 4 years now - that Electronest started with Åbäke to design and redesign (and redesign, and …) the Kitsuné website together on top of the former very first version. This post is the story behind it

read more | digg story

INFRA-RADIO

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:30:00 +0000

INFRA-RADIO
Video sent by cesarharada

I really like the way cesar speaks about his projects. It's fresh and easy going.
The idea behind this project experimentation reminds me in some way of the Mass Media Diving Unit I worked on a little while ago...

INFRA-RADIO is a physical low frequency radio that synchronizes or influences the dynamic of the heart rate providing an interactive sleep experiment for a single or a group of simultaneous users.

Simple Typography Project

noreply@blogger.com (Jerome) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:36:00 +0000

just having a look at my referrers (I know it’s geeky), I found this being a nice one: http://www.google.ca/search?q=simple+typography+project&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

at the time I’m writing (the 4th of Dec’07), Textasplayground is ranked 12th, as a ‘simple typography project’. It’s nice and at the same time I’m wondering who is searching for trypographic references, projects or inspiration on Google by using such query - it would be nice to have a clearer global scope of what people are searching when coming to one of my websites possibly in realtime, and what they actually find useful, or what they don’t find.
I actually use FeedBurner, Google Analytics and a bit of mine own code to trace some patterns and trends; but I still feel frustrated by the narrow perception this give from an electronic presence…

There are a few parameters which can be accepted as relevant like the Bounce Rate, and such things - but at the end, the most relevant factor to me are the backlinks and the comment which provide from human actions and means a lot more than random user click around on ‘strange’ google query …