A nice walk through the East End last night to DorkBot London in Limehouse. The highlights: Peter Cusack’s LF magentic audioscapes of Highbury and Islington underground station (south-bound platform, I think), and The Institute of Applied Autonomy’s fine collection of DARPA website scrapings and repurposing of military technology and aesthetics for urban activism. Crucial performance requirement for their GraffitiWriter robot: it has to move faster than a cop. Very good stuff. Cheap beer, too.
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animation
audio
AV
BigShinyThing
blogging
books
Business
Calendaring
computer graphics
DIY audio
film
geolocation
glanceware
hardware
Heidegger
innovation
intellectual property
interview
James Elkins
laserdisc
London
London bombings
media art
moon
Music
nude media
patina
phenomenology
philosophy
photography
poetics
poetry
snow
social media
social network analysis
software
speakers
surround sound
technology
theory
tools
user interface
visual art
Vivid
wireless (&c)
Playlist
- Richard Davis
- Bring Me Closer
- Chris & Cosey
- Impulse
- Murcof
- Mo
- thinner
- [thn035] 01-breitbannt - lost on the 2nd lane of data highway
- King Crimson
- Heartbeat
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Wiosna
- Glenn Gould
- Variatio 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.
- Anon
- La reina xerifa mora (anon.)
- ltno
- Sea, Sex and Burn
- Arcade Fire
- My Body is a Cage
- Dimbiman
- Dr. Dollys Gum
- Sun
- Reach For The Sky (Pluramon)
- Meat Beat Manifesto
- Radio Babylon (Space Children Intro)
- Positive Life, A
- Pleidean Communication
- The Jesus And Mary Chain
- Upside Down
- Loop Guru
- Jackdaw
- Yes
- It Can Happen (Cinema Version)
- Sun
- Leave it on its own
- Curd Duca
- Quiet Nights Intro, Quiet Nights
- The Notwist
- Trashing Days
Elsewhere...
Mar 12th 2010
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“debugging whilst listening to Colleen's music box music” | |
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“package was evidently back within 20 miles of here at 8:41 this morning. wonder where it is now...” | |
Mar 11th 2010
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“Hey #Amazon/#HDNL -- New Cross -> Droitwich -> Hackney is NOT an efficient delivery route. NOR energy-efficient. #fail #footprint” | |
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“@1854 re 'street' photographer interactions with police -- yes but only when shooting the G20 protests! never been an issue around clubs...” | |
Mar 10th 2010
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“Music for today -- Theo Parrish and Clogs. Covering all bases....” | |
Mar 9th 2010
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“@curlywurlyfiBasa Basa Fish v good tonight... Everything we've had there has been great so far. Except service...” | |
Mar 8th 2010
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“Viet Grill we love you. Smoky chillis. Yum” | |
Mar 7th 2010
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Arduino Forum - RC5 infrared remote | |
Mar 6th 2010
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“saturday morning thought: why do washing machines have windows, but dish-washers don't?” | |
Mar 5th 2010
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“@biche re cushions: go Margiella -- paint with white house paint. Amazingly resilient...” | |
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“we love http://robinschwartz.net/ (esp. "Amelia's World: Animal Affinity") #photography” | |
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Robin Schwartz | |
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“Sun is out & replacement LowePro Slingshot 100AW has arrived (last one survived 3 years, not bad). Must be officially TIme To Get Out There” | |
Mar 4th 2010
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“@mediaczar thank you for link. Off in comp. linguistics world this week, back to mechturkistan sometime soon. Sorry missed LTD. Next one!” | |
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“"saving my empty shells for pearls"” | |
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“Mahler's First shall soundtrack my journey Back Down Into the Maw...” | |
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“...fingers crossed” | |
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“that and putting the daffodils in the fridge last night. either early onset dementia, or too much coding. putting my money on the latter” | |
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“My first waking thought today was 'my postcode is 0xE28FE'. This does not bode well for ability to deal with the real world for rest of day.” | |
Mar 2nd 2010
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“Jaded. What's new and/or exciting? DM me.” | |
Mar 1st 2010
| Some writing: MetroTwin Interview | ||
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“...starting with the HMRC having misfiled £4k and an hour on hold trying to get thru to them.” | |
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“it has NOT been a good day for dealing with instrumentalities.” | |
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“dear #TfL "You can set up Auto top-up by selecting add/renew/top-up ticket" is not strictly correct. at the moment its broken. #fail #oyster” | |
Feb 27th 2010
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“hey #Lacie, two weeks and no reply to a support ticket... #fail” | |
Feb 26th 2010
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A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin. - By Charles Munger - Slate Magazine | |
Feb 25th 2010
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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine | |
Feb 24th 2010
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“Erm... http://twitpic.com/152rqp” | |
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“Baker street” | |
Feb 23rd 2010
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“RT @Metrotwin: http://ow.ly/1agK4 cult alt-club photographer @darrellberry shares his fave London haunts and photos with Metrotwin. Fierce. #LON” | |
thought about this a lot. lovely to see a production model.
the trick i was thinking of would be to have timed-opacity paint … or better still something that is pressure sensitive so when people/cars go over it it gets revealed. avoids the speed requirement to a greater extent.
better yet, build the “bots” into Nikes and deploy as usual.
Comment by tim — Sunday 15 June 2003 @ 2:29 am
Part of their schtick (?) is to invite members of the public to do the remote controlling of the robot — they have great stills of a group of girl scouts defacing some public space
They seem to have run into the classic hacker problem that people seem to want them to start selling prefab kits for the robots, and to turn iSee into an open source API thing, wheras they (apart from not having the time) aren’t really into that — they want to get on with doing new things (understandably). I’ve always seen there stuff as activist art rather than tech projects. Shame tehre isn’t someone else who wants to do all the hard work of productisation…
Comment by darrell — Sunday 15 June 2003 @ 12:47 pm