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Augmented Reality: AR flashmob in Amsterdam


 
likigiki #ARflashmob Hiermee moeten de virtuele standbeelden gemaakt worden, http://bit.ly/dirQa9 het zonlicht belemmerde http://twitpic.com/1i1ozh 2 minutes ago from Twitpic


 jlapoutre Giant superman at #arflashmob http://twitgoo.com/pbwgi #layar 3 minutes ago from twidroid


jlapoutre Beatles crossing at #arflashmob http://twitgoo.com/pbwc5 #layar 6 minutes ago from twidroid


jlapoutre Superman vs "real" human reaper statue #arflashmob http://twitgoo.com/pbw60 14 minutes ago from twidroid

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An Operating System for Cities

*I think you had better have a look at this. This Adam Greenfield screed is smack in that awesome crypto-futuristic space of: "Hey, how come they never warned us about "[$#@$$@&*&^!@#%&:] ?" Only, when you look at the fine print, you actually WERE warned about [$#@$$@&*&^!@#%&:]. Rather eloquently. And you weren't paying proper attention.

http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/frameworks-for-citizen-responsiveness-enhanced-toward-a-readwrite-urbanism/

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"Provided that, we can treat the t...

A Vast Collection of Blighted Buildings, an Immense Petri Dish

*Gothic High-Tech walls out the Favela, spies on it from above, and confronts it at gunpoint. In the meantime, the Favela straps a bomb to itself and explodes anywhere that human flesh will gather.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/cities-under-siege.html

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"Graham outlines a number of dystopian scenarios here, including one in which "swarms of tiny, armed drones, equipped with advanced sensors and communicating with each other, will thus be deployed to loiter permanently above the...

Crash — Homage to Ballard

*Sascha Pohflepp really hammering it over on WMMNA.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/04/crash—homage-to-jg-ballard.php

Turinese flash mob

*Interesting demographic uniformity among the participants there. Must have been a nightclub mailing list.

*The locals have been getting after the phenomenon a while.

Massimo Banzi and his students

*Arduino ALL THE WAY, baby!

http://www.psfk.com/2010/04/rhifid-speakers-this-is-a-journey-into-sound.html

RHFID Speakers - "This is a Journey into Sound" from Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe on Vimeo.

Lavie Tidhar, Jesus, and Ten British Refugees

*Okay: remember that phishing scam I was blogging earlier, about scammers claiming they need emergency rescue funds? This isn't one of those.

*I'm hard put to imagine this situation, but it coulda been me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavie_Tidhar

Dear Bruce,

I was wondering if you might be willing to mention on your blog or twitter or elsewhere that my new novella, Jesus and the Eightfold Path (examining the possibility that the three wise men from the East in the New Testament were the three c...

More from the Festo bionics squad

*These Festo engineers must have interesting home lives. I wonder what kind of pop music they listen to.

Design Fiction is a Fact

*It's always great when a cultural practice is jumping into places where theory and the academy don't quite know what to make of it.

http://futuryst.blogspot.com/2008/04/design-fiction-is-fact.html

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"Now, apart from the oddly anachronistic carnival sideshow tone to the email — step right up, marvel at the amazing bearded lady, and the fabulous pensonal computers carried within her pockets! — the other thing that's strange to me here is that, in such a fast-moving arena of innovation, the...

Seeing the city as software

*Wait a minute, that's not even impossible! That sounds like something that could actually happen in real life. It wouldn't even cost that much to implement.

*Would I actually move into a city where urban-informatics stuff like this was going on? I dunno. I'd have to visit the place and try to download breakfast and a cup of coffee first, but…. Okay, if Jonathan Ive designed it, maybe.

*I think the critical issue here is: could you get a city councilman elected with a "framework for...