September 2009
4 posts
That looks -nice- (haha) Toby- but I’d quite like to see Sarah’s type for the title?
I’m available for every day except tomorrow daytime- getting the bus to London on Sunday.
Getting a bit more of our process in might be good- just key things?
Presentation
Annabel sent me it last night- just uploaded it to my space :)
www.iammartin.co.uk/misc
Presentation
Could really do with a copy of the old presentation for reference for website. Sorry, I don’t think i’ll be getting my roughs on here tonight. Hectic day at work and some even followed me home, the pesky buggers!
Cheers
Tobes
August 2009
89 posts
Sound good Tobes- I don’t think we’re going to need a LOT of stickers. See what everyone else thinks, but 100 or so should be more than enough? Maybe even too many?
My evenings are your evenings!
Whoo, i have just finished my latest publication and am now free (in the evenings). I’ve been doodling ideas/styles for the website today and will try have something up on here for tomorrow night so you can say if you like/dislike etc. Erm, then was just going to fashion the stickers based on that. Might be able to get a quote for some stickers from the printers that we use at work. How many...
TEAM!
OK, I thought we should get email and text stuff into the blog.
Website Stuff
Do we have the design finished? I can code it today (sunday) if you guys want, as I’m not doing much else.
Danosaurus- hows the domain name coming along?
Presentation
Slides. I was thinking we might want to add a few, and maybe change the wording/way a couple of others work? Simon, I know you said you had some...
To Do for the BFI
Edit this/Comment/Etc.
- More Concepts? Maybe think on a few more applications
- Stickers - get them made?
-register site address if we do the stickers?
-Tidier presentation- maybe do it in Keynote this time?
- Interviews/more how people see the city research
It's Nice to be Nice
I thought I’d sumerise our idea, so we now where we’re at, and what we have to do for the BFI. Feel free to edit this post to make my wording better etc.. its late. ;)
It’s Nice to be Nice
Positive reinforcement of good deeds, brightening up the day, and injecting humour into the city
We chose interventions of common everyday things that people encounter all the time
...
Hey!
How is everyone?
Set up a flickr with all the important images.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/magentateam/
Logins: magentateam@yahoo.com
passwords the same as for this blog
Flickr name: magentateam
all images are hidden unless logged in
Best,
Martin
Sweet looking & well designed websites for...
Peepshow Collective-
(obvious maybe, but still amazing)
http://www.peepshow.org.uk/
We Feel Fine
Really cool way of visualising a shit-ton of data
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
Live Plasma
Site which visualises amazon ‘people also bought’ data
http://www.liveplasma.com/
-Martin
Article - "Cities: Our Common Future"... →
WELL worth a read - this article covers tonnes to do with where modern city living is heading.
_Dan
P.s Prosumer - Producer & Consumer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosumer
Rising social problems in densely populated... →
Touches on some of the most common issues attributed to dense upban development and expansion.
Environmental Performance Index... →
Here are a fe links to do with the Environmental Performance Index, which is the thing about how much space people need to sustain them etc…
http://envirocenter.research.yale.edu/?page=environmental-performance-index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Performance_Index
http://www.yale.edu/epi/files/2008EPI_Text.pdf
Definition of Cities... →
Here are the bits I found over the wekend to do with defining cities etc - This goes into a bit of detail about - how cities begin - food production for city dwellers by the surrounding areas - how the growth around the edge is called “urban sprawl” - when two cities growth overlaps it’s called “conurbation” - these linked cites are called a megalopolis
etc…
Couple of cool shadow puppet designs...
(from flickr image search)
-Martin
Exquisite Corpse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
Annabel
Timezones/Linking cities
Thinking of this as a very recognisable link between cities:
Things that take an impression,..
How about this for memory foam:
Just imagining it on a big scale
-M
Relates to making something new from overheard... →
QR Codes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a33uCPOywA
http://reader.kaywa.com/getit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf_DNHPBV-s&NR=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
Annabel
sorry… you may have to turn your head on the other images… cal
pure and simple interaction →
The last Clock
Thinking about surveillance… This is a clock that a friend designed and it was on the design museum a while ago, each of the hands are made from a slice of live video feed. As the hands rotate around the face of the clock they leave a trace of what has been happening in front of the camera.
http://www.lastclock.co.uk/
Sarah
Berlin and Paris beach…
Just two silly links to two articles talking about the temporary manmade summer beaches in both, Berlin and Paris. (Re inventing the city, I thought!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3914649.stm
http://www.arena-berlin.de/badeschiff.aspx
Sarah
Global Cities →
Here is the link to the exhibition at the TATE modern I was talking about earlier today.
Have a browse through; there are some really interesting facts and visualisation.
Sarah
Another one
Google the ‘yellow revolution’
Tobes
Grassy knoll
Look up traf square turfed.
Tobes
Things I've been meaning to get here
Ok, my iPod can’t copy and paste so you’ll just have to google itifyoure interested.
Karlson wilker sound/image/colour recording van thing that made all the covers for their book. I’m sure it will be on their website or YouTube.
London olympics great blue wall divide.(in relevance to the legal graffiti Walls andthe shadows of previous buildings)
And the stuff that asylum fx...
Geocaching
Thought I’d post up a little on geocaching.
This is a pretty good website to get started: http://www.geocaching.com/
It works as a kind of technology based treasure hunt- ‘geocaches’ are left around the world, with a gps tag, designed to be found by someone with a GPS reader. There’s normally a logbook left with the Geocache for people to write it when they find the...