Stained cups

A lovely project by Bethan Laura Wood: a tea cup that the more you use, the more the dotted pattern appears on it’s surface. Definitely a positive history project.

"Oh, i'm between devices at the moment".

As if my thesis needed more conceptual evidence of the fickle relationships we have with high tech devices, here’s the the seven stages of owning an iPod or rather being between iPods. via Valleywag.

Music sharing in Zune

Zune (coming out in stores on the 14th of November) just came out with some really interesting features that replicate a number of my thesis ideas around music sharing between devices. You can locate other wifi-enabled devices in your surroundings and send them songs or pictures. (something iPod doesn’t have yet i believe). Obviously this… Continue reading Music sharing in Zune

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Standing still till next spring

Canary Wharf dusk skyline Originally uploaded by mbiddulph. Some creatures hibernate till spring, refusing to face the cold of winter and preferring to stuff their face and sleep through it. I envy them. I guess I’ll be going through something similar because for the next 6 months i’ll actually stop traveling… I took my last… Continue reading Standing still till next spring

Like I need another blog

Sigh, maybe i’m pushing it a little, but Dave and I started a new blog. So if you’re interested in food, weird food packaging, restaurant concepts, obesity, healthy food services, then go check it out!

The long way to making sense.

There are some days when I just spot things that are completely at odds with each other and make me seriously doubt our ability to make any sense as a species. Ok, maybe that’s too grand a statement, but seriously… One the one hand we know we should be concerned about sustainability and the earth’s… Continue reading The long way to making sense.

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On the road again

Ok, so I’m sure this has been a little confusing for people to figure out where I am on any given week, but now it’ll be easy. As of next week, I am relocating to Amsterdam till late spring 2007. Hopefully I’ll find a cozy place of my own, I’m getting a bit tired of… Continue reading On the road again

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Presenting Karola Torkos

Ok so I’ve spent a little time with my lovely friend Karola to get her “webified” and i’m starting to think that maybe i should start a business being the “digital agent” of people in fine arts :) She and I put together her website, blog and Flickr of course. Enjoy!

post-Touch

Reader-less wall Originally uploaded by alexandra666. I was thinking about the Near-field workshop when I saw the remains of the RFID reader at the Milan location of former idii. It’s interesting to think of post-touch in a way. How will our environments react to stable versus mobile touch interactions? How will they be defaced or… Continue reading post-Touch

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