Near Future Laboratory Blog
Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Jan 9, 2009 – Jan 31, 2009
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Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008
Jan 31, 2009
There’s something heart-warming about the simplicity of a bundle of fresh bread product and news printed on paper. The whiplash of life, reactions to the times perhaps, moves towards paper, simplicity, tangible trusted objects like a foursome of Pretzel Bread and ink on news paper.
ObservationsTrustTrust Food Newspaper Originality Essentialism
Saturday January 24 18:10
Jan 25, 2009
There are many facets to art-technology and its exhibition. This was seen at the splendid “Future Imaginaries” exhibition at the Ben Maltz gallery at Otis College of Art and Design. I eagerly await Norman Klein (pictured gesturing to Lev Manovich who is assessing an audio focus rig) and Andreas Kratky’s forthcoming…
CartographyDesign Art TechnologyDesign FictionArt TechnologyExhibition
Isla Lyddle End Beach (Lyddle End 2050)
Jan 23, 2009
For Russell’s speculative modelling provocation, I was sent a Hornby Jubilee Clock Tower. I quote Mr. Davies:
3D PrintedDesignDesign FictionUndisciplinarityHornbyLyddle End 2050Speculative DesignSpeculative Modelling
Saturday January 17 19:48
Jan 20, 2009
Shorthand code, accepted by convention and practice. Minivan. For sale. Call this number to discuss. Oftentimes a price will appear in grease pencil like this, along with the number. Here, just a dollar sign, as if written in haste and without consideration as to price.
ObservationsSocial PracticeFor SaleSigns
Monday January 19 11:06
Jan 20, 2009
Photographic recollection of an accident that happened a few minutes before I cleaned it up. In the studio, morning — reaching to my left, I knocked over my coffee which did a fairly good job of soaking a couple of things. No biggie, except that what surprised me most was the failure of my peripheral vision and prop…
ObservationsPhotoAccidentGestureInterfaceProprioception
Visual Design and Mitigation Strategy
Jan 13, 2009
A variety of rules designed to mitigate accidents and loss of limb at a local bouncy-park, for kids. And people within certain height boundaries. And people above a certain weight. And people inclined to rough play. And people who may end up tumbling or flipping. And..
DesignMotionObservationsPhotoPlay
Workshop on Pervasive Advertising
Jan 12, 2009
It amazes me how non-relevant this topic is, particularly nowadays when there can be little reason to entice a consumer to engage in letting loose of whatever cash they may have. By the time we get out of the current morass of mistrust, misspending and misguided expectations of a world where all the growth graphs go…
AdvertisingDesign FictionPost-GUITheoryMinority ReportObservationPervasiveWorkshop
Sign
Jan 09, 2009
I swear to GOD this is a friend’s “sig” line in her emails (she’s the hardest working IT person at a university department with lots of whining, illegal-software-downloading, computer-breaking-and-never-fixing, softdrink-drinking-right-by-fancy-computer-equipment students, so I have complete sympathy.)
FailureObservationsPost-Optimal DesignUndisciplinarityDesignSpecifications
Thursday January 08 1812
Jan 09, 2009
Seen in the "Funplex" — a warning sign that prepares those not used to losing that they may in fact obtain nothing for their time and perhaps even lose something in exchange for the token they use to have a whirl at the crane game (try and hoist out a bundle of tickets which can be used to get things – mostly crap —…
ObservationsTrust