Architecture & Beauty: A Troubled Relationship: with Yael Reisner, Sir Peter Cook, Hernan...

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The Formula from subBlue on Vimeo.

Between 30 June - 2 July, a group of researchers, scientists, scholars and an artist met at the Korea Institute of Technology in Saarbruchen, Germany for the Human Document Project. The three day event, organized by Dr. Andreas Manz, was an intensive programme of presentations, brain-storming sessions and more presentations (followed by good food...

Collaborative Consumption: Reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. A couple...

This is an explosive seed regarding the evolution of your superhuman powers. Very soon we will...

by Leon Tan and Tomas Skovgaard Mixed Reality Publics Networked publics are mixed reality...

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.... The painter should...

The universe is an intelligence test. - Timothy Leary

Erik Verlinde, a string theorist and professor of physics at the University of Amsterdam, is...

All right, this has been bothering me for some time : Frequently, I try to read essays on...

I turned Wikipedia into a brain. Wikipedia pages appear and disappear on the screen and...

LA-based collaborative design and fabrication studio ball nogues just finished their most recent...

TransArchitectures Marcos Novak 1996 Article:

Out beyond the farthest stars, Where the cold of space spreads thin, We endeavor to look...

BY JILL SINGER Astounding cocoons made only of tape float in mid-air, capable supporting more...

By MATT BURRIS Thursday, August 12, 2010 A new backpack laden with cameras and laser scanners...

Greetings, In a recent moment of clarity an epiphany dawned upon me, one that I wish to share with you. Perhaps epiphany is the wrong term … a better word would be realization, the culmination of several already known smaller epiphanies coming together to a greater understanding, to a greater acceptance of truth as it is rather than I...

early schematic of a personal transport vehicle

Angelo never felt quite right … He was a strong young man, bright, passionate, yet growing up he always felt out of place amongst his piers. He felt a passing tourist in this world rather one of its residents. He wasn’t distraught about this fact, a little perplexed perhaps, slightly uncomfortable, but not distraught. In fact he found it...

Makassar 7 was not known to answer questions readily, however in this particular case, the flagship entity could not resist, this then is the only transcript available, since Makassar 7 destroyed all recorded lightstamps of the event of what in later generations came to be known as “the response of Makassar 7” or simply “ The big...

Digital Skins Body Atmospheres Digital Skins Body Atmospheres from Nancy Tilbury on Vimeo. "A Fashion Futures Film set in 2050. Couture becomes a biological experience, gowns are assembled by gas and nano-electronic-particles, where tailoring and cosmetics are constructed by 3D liquid formations, including swallowable technologies...

Just wondering why the gallery is never updated any more and if it ever will be again? I love the gallery here and often direct people to it, I'd like to see it keep growing.

Pre-Stressed Body or Revisiting the 'MAISON À BORDEAUX' by Dimitra Gelagoti co-edited by...

This article was originally published at 3quarksdaily and io9 Mid-way through H.G.Wells’ The...

A theory of aesthetics for object-oriented moving images.

Medium Size PS symbol. The power of positive thinking.... "Hope"...

The ultimate Platonist these days is Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

The painter does not paint on a virgin canvas. The writer does not write on a blank page....

I've been exploring the meaning of p2p with @notthisbody, and along the way trying to distill the concept down to a simple definition. The logic of p2p has long transcended file sharing and is beginning to transform everything from politics to our economy. 'peer-to-peer' only scratches the surface of what we mean by p2p. There are lots of...

There's been a lot of talk recently about the changes in Net Neutrality laws, and the possibility that they may change drastically in the coming years, thus disallowing for free communications between peers. It's worrisome that Google, monolithic as it is, keeps popping up in these conversations as being not-quite-for neutrality... In the...

Dear Friends, You may ask about my magic hyperbolic 0 curvature disc. How come? It looks really...

The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements When researchers found an unusual linkage between solar flares and the inner life of radioactive elements on Earth, it touched off a scientific detective investigation that could end up protecting the lives of space-walking astronauts and maybe rewriting some of the assumptions of...

Models vs. Patterns by Monica Anderson Grasping how things are. Why understanding comes first,...

Hans Rosling, genius of data visualization at Gapminder leads us to grasp surprising big data and...

"If anybody wants to access your time or knowledge or influence, they would have to pay for it...

Suzanne was telling me the history of Argentine tango, a dance that “grew up” in the narrow...

My ability to make statements in this world is complicated by the fact that most people are, in...

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Illustration by Charles Glaubitz The object as product. The time of the product as merely the...