Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Apr 28, 2012 – May 20, 2012
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May 20, 2012
Last month, when involved in a teaching seminar in France, I ran across this utterly curious scene. It’s basically a cell-phone with a piece of paper that shows a drawing, stuck on the device’s display. The drawing features a sort of animal quickly scribbled.
Nicolas Nova
SyndicatedObservation
May 16, 2012
Btw, I started a tumblr few days ago to accumulate insights, data points and “weak signals” in a very basic/raw way… I use to put that material into delicious but I’m not satisfied with the service anymore.
Nicolas Nova
SyndicatedFuture
May 15, 2012
Nicolas: last week was quiet because of May 1st but I spent few days on different things. First, I worked on preparing a wall of game controllers with Laurent Bolli for a summer exhibit at mudac in Lausanne. Since the collection of official gamepads are already in Yverdon, we’re going to show the ones that reveal va…
Nicolas Nova
AudioEar FreshenerMarshall StackWeeknotes
May 14, 2012
Read in Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine:
Nicolas Nova
NewaestheticSyndicated
May 04, 2012
Perhaps the weirdest piece of technology I’ve seen recently is this curious assemblage exhibited at Lift in Seoul: it’s called “Robot Mori” and, as described by Advanced Technology Korea:
Nicolas Nova
NewaestheticrobotSyndicated
May 01, 2012
(Nick wrote this over on his blog. It deserves more blogginess, so I’m re-blogging it here as well. – Julian)
NewaestheticObservations
May 01, 2012
Julian: Literally? I spent the week in the model shop doing three things, sometimes at the same time. First, getting ahead of myself and making a third edition of Ear Freshener. That’s right. A third edition. I think I’m deferring/procrastinating doing the sound design until I can find a proper sound designer to hel…
DesignWeeknotes
Apr 28, 2012
Reading REAMDE by Neal Stephenson, I ran across this notion of “recombinant food” (pp. 219-220):
Nicolas Nova
creolizationSyndicated