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Talking To Myself
A Dude's Guide —
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by Richard I realized the other day that I looked like a crazy person. Well, more than I normally do anyway. Okay, fine. It was a distinct difference from my normal behavior and I use normal in the loosest sort of way. Are we done now? Can we get on with this? Great. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Right. Crazy person. See, ...2 days ago -
The Phone Box Experiment
The Pop-Up City —
Authority: 419
In The Netherlands we don’t have callable phone booths, so as a youngster I was fascinated by American thrillers in which someone passed a public telephone that suddenly got called. Most of the times the hell broke loose as soon as that curious pedestrian answered the call. (I think you all know the movie Phone ...2 days ago -
VVORK —
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“ Tiger Stealth “, 2009 by Peter Sandbichler .4 days ago -
City orders group to remove plaque on nativity scene identifying anti-abortion group
Posted Toronto —
Authority: 640
By Matthew Coutts, National Post The city yesterday ordered a Catholic group that had donated a nativity scene outside of Old City Hall to remove a plaque identifying an anti-abortion group as the donor of the statues of Baby Jesus and his entourage. Suresh Dominic of Gethsemane Ministries said city ...5 days ago -
Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape
The Pop-Up City —
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Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it. Terrarium is an electronic dreamscape that listens to the visitor’s voice. This leads to a dynamic experience of an almost perfect and super ...5 days ago -
NYC’s Urban Garden Room Features Living Plant Sculptures
Inhabitots —
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Here’s a great indoor outing for New York City families (or those visiting the Big Apple) this holiday season. The new Urban Garden Room at One Bryant Park is a study in what green public spaces of the future might look like. And there’s much more than the towering living plant sculptures (composed of thousands ...6 days ago -
New Lives For Old Phone Booths
The Pop-Up City —
Authority: 419
The use of phone booths is declining. (I know I’m beating a dead horse now.) Even tourists favor buying a cheap-ass prepaid phone instead of visiting a phone booth when they want to make a call. Phone booths are an old, location-dependent concept, so we have a serious surplus of them on the streets and squares of ...1 week ago -
Augmented Reality DevCamp NYC: The Big ARNY – A Collaborative AR Game Project Modeled After Swarm of Angels
UgoTrade —
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First an incredibly big thank you to The Open Planning Project office (TOPP) – @TOPPLabs, and Sophia Parafina, @spara , for organizing, hosting, sponsoring and providing so much inspiration for this event. There is an incomplete list of attendees below, and there were about 70 people at one point watching ...1 week ago -
Spiderman In The Urban Jungle
The Pop-Up City —
Authority: 419
The French artist Sébastien Preschoux has come up with a beautiful collection of spanned string projects in all sorts of dreamy spatial situations. We found out about his work on the Spanish blog Flores en el Atico that we couldn’t read as we don’t speak any Spanish. The way geometrical logics are combined ...1 week ago -
VVORK —
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“Untitled (Picnic Tables)”, 2004 by Gardar Eide Einarsson .1 week ago -
Egypt attempts crackdown on shisha
Egypt Then and Now —
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In a country where smoking is cheap and often described as a “national habit”, an Egyptian government enforcement of a two-year-old law banning smoking on public places is facing stiff resistance. Egyptian authorities have issued an ultimatum to the owners of cafes in several cities across the country to stop ...1 week ago -
The Dutch Strike First
The Pop-Up City —
Authority: 419
As many of you may know, yesterday was a big day for football enthusiasts. Next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa came somewhat closer as the official draw for the tournament took place in Cape Town. (Check out the entire schedule here .) The Dutch are in Group E, together with Denmark, Japan and Cameroon. ...1 week ago -
The AR Wave Project: An Introduction and FAQ by Thomas Wrobel
UgoTrade —
Authority: 446
Images from Mitsuo Iso’s Denno Coil (Click to enlarge), the game “Metroid Prime,” and Terminator. Thomas Wrobel , Sophia Parafina , Joe Lamantia and I will lead a session tomorrow for AR DevCampNYC introducing the AR Wave Project. Thomas and Joe will be participate via skype (10am to 11.30am ...1 week ago -
Project DeRenne concept provides a vision of corridor’s future
Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) —
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From coverage of last night’s Project DeRenne concept unveiling last night provided by WSAV , WTOC and the Savannah Morning News , you might get the idea that the mood in room was particularly contentious. I didn’t get that impression. And I was sitting a couple chairs away from a local business owner, who ...1 week ago -
Bloggers of Europe, unite!
Grahnlaw —
Authority: 478
I, Resolved to add a few thoughts to the Euroblog Meet-up initiated by Joe Litobarski, Drawing inspiration from the historic rallying call of the Communist Manifesto, Recalling the amusement provided by the creation and propagation of the EUSSR myth , Confirming my attachment to the vision of a ...1 week ago -
Minarett-Verbot
Kafila —
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This is a guest post by Naeem, an artist friend. The post is a cull from a conversation regarding the recent ban in Switzerland imposed on building minarets. In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday ...1 week ago -
How many eurobloggers can dance on the head of a pin?
Blogactiv - EU Blog Platform —
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So the debate about the Euroblogosphere, or the Eurosphere, or the European Public Sphere, or web2eu, or the European online public space, of whatever-we-call-it-next-week, has sparked again into life, like a Frankensteinian monster with dodgy spark plugs screwed into the base of its neck. The latest incarnation is ...1 week ago -
Web 2.0 Meets Gov 2.0: Hacking Human Behavior within a City, FourSquare, MoMo #13, and AR DevCamp
UgoTrade —
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Mobile social communication is beginning to take center stage as the internet moves to real time communications . The recent explosion of interest in augmented reality is part of a wider concern to orchestrate a new landscape of contextually relevant information linked to location/place/time and mobile social ...1 week ago -
New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth
The Far Edge —
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London is calling! Actually, it’s Westbury-sub-Mendip’s new 24-hour phone booth library ! After witnessing their weekly mobile library disappear, this wee town in the south of England town wasn’t going to let their iconic phone booth be taken away as well. Conceived by a local resident as a way to save a bit of ...1 week ago -
Project DeRenne “preferred concept” to be unveiled Dec. 3
Sustainable Savannah | Tracking sustainability news and events in Savannah, Georgia (and beyond) —
Authority: 115
On Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. the “preferred concept,” produced by the recent Project DeRenne charettes , will be unveiled in a former auto parts store at 131 W. DeRenne Ave. I’m interested to see what the folks from Kimley-Horne , working with city officials and citizens of all walks of life, have created. In ...1 week ago
