Reported in The Independent today that the people behind the Yo! Sushi chain (overpriced mediocre kaiten sushi and loud house music) are launching a chain of pay-by-the-hour hotels in the UK. The love hotel concept fed through the Yo! aesthetic is a fairly depressing idea, although they are claiming that the inspriration is more luxury airtravel than Shin Okubo, so I guess we wait and see.
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philosophy
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poetics
poetry
snow
social media
social network analysis
software
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visual art
Vivid
wireless (&c)
Listening to...
- Merz
- The Leaving Song (Yorkshire Traction)
- Jordi Savall
- A los baos del amor (anon.)
- Aphrodite
- Cool Flight
- Philip Glass & Robert Wilson
- Scene C
- This Mortal Coil
- The Lacemaker
- Anna Domino
- Not Right Now
- Rjoji Ikeda
- Mothboy
- saucy Mix
- Cocteau Twins
- Bluebeard
- Buck 65
- Memory is Parallax
- Moby
- Soundtrack mix
- Cavemen Speak
- Track 11
- Cat Power
- Still In Love
- Jordi Savall
- Propian de melyor (anon.)
- The Gossip
- Eyes Open
- Young Marble Giants
- Wind in the Rigging
- Tim Buckley
- Phantasmagoria in Two (Live)
- The Dead Sexy Inc
- Track 3
- Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs
- Ayre III. Tancas Serradas a Muru (Walls Are Encircling the Land)
- The Dead Sexy Inc
- D Generation
Elsewhere...
Dec 4th 2008
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“mmmm.... Marylebone...” | |
Dec 3rd 2008
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“@mediaczar PostRank: not yet, but might be. What do u have in mind?” | |
Dec 2nd 2008
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“http://tinyurl.com/5luzfe” | |
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“i see everyone is showing off their latest visualisation tools... here's my work-in-progress...” | |
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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Nov 27th 2008
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“Project Komakino are playing in the window of 30a Redchurch st” | |
Nov 26th 2008
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I posted 13 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 20th 2008
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I posted 15 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 18th 2008
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“Thanks to the nice people at Hub KX for letting me squat there this afternoon.” | |
Nov 14th 2008
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I posted 19 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 12th 2008
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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I posted 10 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 10th 2008
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Global Avoidable Mortality | |
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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I posted 4 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Edward Steichen: In High Fashion - The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937 Edward Steichen: Vogue's gallery - Telegraph | |
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“A wind-driven vortex of leaves. No more. Sadly.” | |
Nov 6th 2008
| Some writing: UNDERCONSTRUCTION 4 November 2008 | ||
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I posted 10 pictures on Flickr... | |
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Nov 3rd 2008
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“Not Enough Bandwidth!” | |
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“A quick juice at the Photographers Gallery between meetings...” | |
Nov 2nd 2008
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I posted 9 pictures on Flickr... | |
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“Mainlining timeshifty TV” | |
Nov 1st 2008
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“Off to the vaults under the Barbican. But not yet.” | |
Oct 30th 2008
| Some writing: UNDERCONSTRUCTION Season 4 | ||
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I posted 1 picture on Flickr... | |
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“sometimes a 404 is just right” | |
| Some writing: Kit List | ||
Oct 27th 2008
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US Army warns of Twitter danger | |
| Some writing: Polaroid Retrospective | ||