I had lunch today with my friend Alex Pang at the Institute For the Future in Palo Alto. The discussion was around the Internet of Things, spimes and blogjects. Starting by discussing Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things, we were thinking about the fact that as Sterling says there is no smartness in the...
Palo Alto in 2006
Two interesting signs. One the left, the company indicates its own subsidiaries, which is often done by luxury companies (like Louis Vuitton indicating the glamorous places where they are like Paris, Tokyo, Cannes...), the streetwear company (LA, Tokyo...) and now the tech ones who not only put the...
Yesterday's meeting
Yesterday was a quite super active day in the bay area with a serie of meeting at PARC and a dinner with friends in SF. Located in Palo Alto, PARC is a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, conducts pioneering interdisciplinary research in the physical, computational, and social sciences. It first start...
wi5d search engine
wi5d (Wireless 5th Dimensional Networking) seems to be an intriging company. It had been created in 2005 and it's focused on the development of a context-aware approach to surfing the Web as they say. By challenging the myth that the web frees the user from space and time considerations, we hold th...
Future of the Internet
Last month, there was a futuristic piece about the Internet on Red Herring, which had interesting points with regards to the relationships between virtual world/objects and the physicality of those. the barriers between our bodies and the Internet will blur as will those between the real world and ...
Discussion with taxi driver in Irvine
Me: I want to go to UC Irvine (we were at the Amtrak Station) Taxi driver: mmmh, do you have the address? Me: mmmh no Taxi driver: I cannot go there, I am new here and I need an address to put in my GPS Me: I don't have the address but I have the directions descriptions on this paper Taxi driver: m...
Research meeting with Paul Dourish
Had a good meeting for lunch today with Paul Dourish at UC Irvine, chatting about my PhD research and on-going projects here and there. It seems that he's back on writing about space and place, which is very relevant to what I do. Some raw notes from what he said about my research: he acknowledge...
Visualize the invisible (dataflowviz)
Just found this on information aesthetics: Free Network Visible Network, a project by the Mixed Reality Lab. Free Network Visible Network is a project that combines different tools and processes to visualize, floating in the space, the interchanged information between users of a network. The people...
3D Level design history
There is a good serie of columns on Gamasutra lately about level design by Sam Shahrani. It focused on FPS and 3D level design. What is good is that it gives a comprehensive overview of the different techniques used so far. Some very relevant excerpts about how level designers takes advantage of co...
Spreadsheet art
(via), Danielle Aubert's 58 Days Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel is very appealing to me. Microsoft Excel is a program designed to track and compute information, but here I am using Excel as a drawing tool. These drawings are a part of a series of sixty drawings that I executed (more ...