(via aeiou) isolatr is meant to be a location-based service meant to find where other people weren't...There is also imolatr, "an inflexable IM client that always list you as away". It actually seems to be a joke directed to the web2.0 crazyness as attested by the faq. ...
Wrap-up of the crystalpunk workshop in Utrecht
A more structured summary of what I found interesting at the Crystalpunk workshop for soft architecture in Utrecht last week-end: Pablo Miranda's talk targeted two aspects of architecture: being critical and projective. As for the critique part, a lot of things in architecture comes from the assum...
Video-Game auto-maps
Via Wikipedia: Automap is an abbreviation for "automatic mapping" a navigational aid featured in many video-games. It shows a limited top-down map view of the game world that is centered on the player's character and is updated in real-time as the character moves around. Automaps usually display tr...
Blogjects and the crystalpunk workshop in Utrecht
Here are my slides from the presentation I prepared for the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture, be careful, it's a 5Mb powerpoint (the pdf was too big). The presentation actually describes the blogject concept as it started when Julian started talking about it and it presents what emerged ...
When structures remain
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Bits and pieces from the CrystalPunk Manifesto
I am actually in Utrecht, in the former utility area of a vacant 13 floor office (for the "Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture"). Rooted in self-education, DIY and drawning "connections between disconnected fields of knowledge" is the motto. Reading their description, I ran across this part ...
Easy mobile-robots for PC enthusiasts
WhiteBoxRobotics is a group of visionaries that aims at becoming an industry leader and innovator of PC based mobile robotic platforms for the entertainment, educational, and personal robotics industry. White Box Robotics is setting the standard for an entirely new category within the mobile roboti...
Archikluge: Genetic Algorithm that evolves architectural diagrams
Just met Pablo Miranda Carranza at the Crystalpunk Drug Workshop in Utrecht. One of Pablo's project seems tremendously interesting: ArchiKluge ArchiKluge is the first of a series of small experiments written in Java which explore ‘artificial creativity’, automatic design and generative approaches i...
Upcoming events this week-end
Tomorrow and sunday, I'll be at the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture in the Netherlands. I am going to present the scenarios we discussed at the LIFT workshop about blogjects/. Here is a description of the event: Between September and December 2005 the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Archit...
PC and mobile phones personalization
Blom, J. and Monk, A.F. (2003): Theory of Personalization of Appearance: Why Users Personalize Their PCs and Mobile Phones, Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 18, No. 3, Pages 193-228, Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 18, No. 3, Pages 193-228. Abstract: Three linked qualitative studies were performed...