First off, I’m being tongue-in-cheek with the blog post title, so lower your weapons. And I’ll be brief. There are two things going on here.

A short mention of this wonderful film “Moon”, which is presently in the theaters here and there. I quite enjoyed the production design — Tom Carden pointed me to the site of the designer who created the fictional environment, giving the film a particularly lonely and somewhat constrained feeling to it, a fellow cal…

Cribbed from John Marshall’s Designed Objects blog, he and I contributed a short, analytic essay on inter/trans/undisciplinarity as it pertains to design practices for this book — Digital Blur: Stories from the Edge of Creative Design Practice. The book is forthcoming in September-ish I am told and contains a collec…

Via Nicolas — Upcoming piece about the asynchronous city:

This weekend, I was at this un-conference, event, workshop called The Overlap in the misty Pacific Grove along the coast of California near Monterey. It’s a mix of designers and self-described business types and some who were both, mixing it up with a variety of loosely structured “technologies” to explore, test, pr…

The Overlap 09 was a weekend workshop in Pacific Grove, California where designers and business people came together to explore new ways of thinking and collaborating. The event featured storytelling, body storming, and prototype cards to inspire creativity and innovation. Participants engaged in activities that challenged traditional design approaches, fostering a space for experimentation and discovery. The workshop emphasized the importance of human connection and the role of design in shaping future possibilities. This is a very lightly and perhaps poorly fashioned reposting of a blog post from 2009 that appeared on the old Near Future Laboratory blog. I am gradually moving all the old posts over here to the new blog. This one is about a workshop I attended called The Overlap. It was a great experience and I wanted to preserve the notes I made at the time.

Last visit to London, I made a quick stop at the National Gallery in London to see this for real, Joseph Wright of Darby’s “An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump”, which has relevance for me from my work and interests in the history and social studies of science. This was one of those odd tourist-y moments for me,…

This isn’t bad and its not a BSOD rant. Only, well — I guess it is in a matter of speaking. Perhaps not quite an instance of atemporality but there was a bit of a dizzy feeling I got when this crap computer I use every so often told me to call my hardware vendor. Who the heck is that, to start with?

Four parcels in one day, all good, gooey, design-y stuff.