“She folds and cuts individual maps by region to produce clothes not to be worn but rather hung, mostly pleated parochial dresses and button-down shirts made out of modern maps. Universal by nature, her work is popular wherever shown.” Several more at the site: Elisabeth Lecourt at Fairfax Contemporary Art Galleries, something to go with [...]
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I had the happy fortune to read two articles back-to-back; Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny: Tim Berners-Lee talking back in 1995 … … and Slide 43 of 44 of Matt Webb’s reboot11 talk. The thread that joins them together, Tim Berners-Lee talked a lot back then about how he hoped the Internet would help solve [...]
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Flickr just released Mobile Nearby for “smartphones” ie the iphone and that other one. Just go to m.flickr.com and there should be a new link that figures out where you are and, well, shows you nearby photos. Two quick things; 1) I’m still waiting for broadband to be connect here, so I’m doing everything via [...]
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After the last post I’ve been thinking about Ants* a lot, but more of that later (later time-wise not post-wise), in the mean time I missed this post from Fast Company a couple of days ago … iPhone Augmented Reality Which, while not being earth shatteringly insightful does add to the build up of interest [...]
Last night I was mulling over the new iPhone and 3.0OS stuff, and then Brady goes and covers most of it anyway: What the iPhone 3GS and 3.0 OS Means for Geo Devs. Really the two elements I was most interested in were the Compass for pretty much the reasons Brady (damn him!) states … [...]
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Oh #spymaster, I saw this comment posted to twitter the other day … “decides to stop following everyone who uses #spymaster. Do you guys even know what twitter is for?” … I have no arguments with the “stop following” part, everyone is free to do what they want. It’s the whole knowing what something is [...]
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