you all know the gaia hypothesis, i.e. the fact that earth could be a gigantic organism with its own regulation. What if each cities was this kind of organism ? I thought about this when reading the famous comics "the invisibles" by Grant Morrison: "the city has its own gods and spirits; electric-e...
charlie heb!
L'autre jour, en attendant l'ouverture du festival de court métrage underground de Lausanne, j'ai tué le temps en lisant Charlie Hebdo. Je ne me sentais pas spécialement d'extrême gauche ce soir la mais j'avais envie de voir quel était en 2003 la ligne éditoriale du journal. Je ne m'attendais à ret...
types of place
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Different type of places : - workplace - home - third place : cafeteria... - transitional space : trains, bus, metro, planes... - white space : non-place where people are in transit (airport lounge) ...
action in our lab
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE here what's happening after I write a paper ...
what is a whuffie ?
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE currently reading Cory Doctorow's novel "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", I fell down on the concept of 'whuffie'. It's a reputations currency coined by Cory Doctorow. Defintion from Phil Wolff : You earn whuffie as people credit you out of respect, gratitude, pity, ...
eurodisney
I've never been to eurodisney but I admit I would like to visit this place. I wait beause it will be interesting when :- the park will be deserted by population - or when it will be obsolete like Coney Islands Park in NY That reminds me the Dead Mall Project ...
strange concept
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via AG comments on anne's blog : the shiznit is sort of like 'the shit' after its smoked some indo and sipped on some gin and juice. laid back with its mind on the money and its money on the mind.. ...
confluent lyon
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Futurs aménagements au confluent Rhône/Saône à Lyon : musée des confluences à la jonction, place des archives et pôle de loisir avec bassin nautique : Le musée des Confluences (sciences et société), architecte Coop Himmelblau : ...
Mos Eisley Cantina Bar
The young adventurer and his two mechanical servants follow Ben Kenobi into the smoke-filled cantina. The murky, moldy den is filled with a startling array of weird and exotic alien creatures and monsters at the long metallic bar. At first the sight is horrifying. One-eyed, thousand-eyed, slimy, fu...
bbc vocabulary course
Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I am pretty impressed by the Body Files of the BBC !!! Very interesting synonyms :) Selected quotes : Breasts AKA: Baps, bazookas, bazooms, boobies, boobs, bosoms, bristols, bust, busters, hooters, jubblies, jugs, knockers, melons, nawks, orbs, titties, tits. Penis AKA ...