In aggregation I left the islands of leaving with nothing to say. Had I stayed to learn what...

"Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and we believe the volume will...

NEW! Archimedean Spidron Tile Enjoy it! Thanx a lot. The Spidron Team

Human beings versus machines, or machines as instruments of human designs? The answers to these two questions would have been obvious years ago: Human beings, of course, machines are instruments of human design! But now days when we speak so much of progress, science and technology as if progress, science and technology were in themselves...

species are now swimming in their primordial pudding , they will gain more and more...

"In 1969, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), the pre-eminent 20th Century engineer for the...

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface, IPA: /ˈmɪdi/) is an industry-standard protocol that...

"Iceberg 2025" is an architectural interactive installation proposed to be installed in...

Beneath is an indoor interactive installation inspired by the underwater world. It consists of a...

THE SUPERSTAR: Self-Sustaining City of the Future by Evelyn Lee "The city of tomorrow...

Human society needs to aspire to an integration of its material, spiritual and ecological elements....

I will use this space to give a brief description of where I am coming from. This is a post...

I think that notthisbody's post on the current state of a Polytopia shows how promising the notion...

I am always thoroughly impressed with Mr. McDonough when I hear him speak. He his not only acting...

Talk about a bad place to have a light bulb burn out...The crew aboard the ISS is struggling with lightbulbs burning out in the new Japanese module. "Almost half of the 21 fluorescent lamps aboard Japan's experimentation module Kibo on the International Space Station (ISS) have burned out, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

In my last post, I went over several challenges facing Polytopia. Now, I will attempt to share...

Galvanic skin response sensors measure levels of emotional arousal through changes in skin...

Combine a dimly lit room with Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Flickr.com, and an array of other comfort-rot activities, and you get a recipe for the dissolve of interest of most other things in life. Namely, my job as an industrial designer in the field of visual merchandising. I've been spending the past year partaking in the subtle manipulation of the...

The Portland, OR Inverge and Cre8Con conferences were last week. You should scope their twitters and blogs at #Inverge and #Cre8Con. It was amazing.

I made this collage in 1994 (about). Still looks like today for me despite of yellowing.

This is part I of a two-part post on my thoughts on the Polytopia. In this first one, I will aspire to present the challenges we will face in Polytopia. In the next post, I will examine possible vaccines and counterpoints that could be built into the architecture, as well as possible constructive uses that could help all of us...

The Mike Wallace Interview: Aldous Huxley5/18/58. Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave...

While other space collective members have called for interactive performances, as of yet...

I have always been interested in human individuality and self-expression... The persons...

Interesting speach by Peter Hirshberg. Always is good to look backwards :) His blog here.

I had a strange feeling when I saw one of the "animals" walking in the beach.

You Be The Judge: The Critique • In the past three decades, one-third of the planet’s...

Oil Fields No. 19 (California) & Bao Steel #7 (Shanghai) These images are meant as metaphors...

MW - China, Factory For The World: Image #1, EB - Manufacturing #17 (Dehui City, Jilin...

CJ - Crushed Cars #3 (Tacoma) & Mixed Recycling (Seattle) Exploring around [the United...

MW - Architecture of Density: Images #a15 & #a101 Hong Kong is one of the most densely...

EB - Dam #6 (Yangtze River) The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most powerful...

A clever way to explain some "mistakes" of this days, was readed on a french radio on...

In everyday experience, it is quite intuitive to expect simple systems to present simple behaviors,...

Documenting Graphic Language I'm going to post on this space a series of graphic design work that I think is relevant to be documented. I started with Lou Dorfsman's work. The idea is post relevant images that exemplify how the terrestrials communicate apart from vocal language.

If you haven't read any Buckminster Fuller, you need to get on it. I don't think you...

Though rudimentary, the texts quoted below pin things in a place where I like them as a...

Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an arrangement as worthy as these: Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the...

Soot, patience, and the dim whirling of stars make a destiny for even you, the sole heir to all of histories sunken steam ships, tomorrow’s breaking sunshine, and from darkness, a diamond cut to the inward shape of mystery: so clear, brilliant, rare. Indestructible soul kaleidoscope. Upon the anvil, the hammering hand...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature "Huge changes will occur in the fossil record. Not just because of the mass extinction we are causing, but because of the huge number of human remains that will become melded into future rock layers."