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December 4, 2009

Augmented Reality: Augmenting Shibuya

*And, it's Shibuya being augmented by a giant department store. I'd be guessing that Shibuya is already a giant Tokyu Hands store, and it's just a matter of spreading the price tags.


http://blog.cyber-media.co.jp/2009/12/01/new-social-bookmarking-and-augmented-reality-app-for-shibuya/







0 comments Published on December 04, 2009 07:37 | 1 view
California in ruins; I blame the dominant ideology of the Whole Earth Catalog

*Uh, well, sorta. Take it away, Kazys Varnelis:

http://varnelis.net/blog/complexity_and_contradiction_in_infrastructure

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"But a Californicated America would have no room for public infrastructural spending. Instead, the exemplary infrastructures of the 1980s and 1990s—telecoms after deregulation, the mobile phones, the Internet—are privatized. Here, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron describe the legitimizing narrative for such ventures as the Californian Ideology, a union of hippie...

0 comments Published on December 04, 2009 01:46

December 3, 2009

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE Google sites

*I'm trying to come up with some witty and off-the-wall to describe this UNESCO press release. I dunno. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you oughta be able to annotate a wack development like this all by yourself.

UNESCO Press Release No. 2009 – 144

Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide

virtual visits of several World Heritage sites

Paris, 3 December – Sites inscribed on the World Heritage List – the Palace of Versailles in France, the historic centre of Prague in ...

0 comments Published on December 03, 2009 11:12
Augmented Reality: Battle of Branchage

*Urban projection-mapping. Nice use of gridwork about 1:10. Obligatory techno soundtrack. What would a properly augmented projection-beamed soundtrack sound like? Sounds coming from "spaces" that aren't there?



Battle of Branchage from seeper on Vimeo.







0 comments Published on December 03, 2009 10:17
The Pirate Stock Exchange

*Another breakthrough in black globalization, and this one is straight out of Margaret Thatcher. A real ownership society, for Somalians. I wonder if narcotics and suicide bombings could be privatized in this way.

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE5B01Z920091201?sp=true

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"One wealthy former pirate named Mohammed took Reuters around the small facility and said it had proved to be an important way for the pirates to win support from the local community for their...

0 comments Published on December 03, 2009 02:02

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