Image via Wikipedia Last weekend I went down to London to see Area10 in Peckham. They were having an event called re booted, as part of the node.London (http://www.nodel.org/) series of events. Area 10 http://www.area10medialab.co.uk/ Area 10 Project space is pleased to launch the new media lab platform. The medialab is being introduced to facilitate [...]
A paper of mine on how artists access technology has been pblished in the online fibreculture journal. I looked at artworks by FOAM, Blast Theory and the SymbioticA Research Group. You can find it here
Last year I went on a biorama hike on the Yorkshire moor above Huddersfield given by Andy Gracie with Brandon Ballangee . Footage of this is in a documentary by the Arts Catalyst on Brandon’s Malamp project looking at deformed frogs found in the US, Europe and UK. Click To Play It has also been [...]
Last Saturday, Pete and I had a 12hr SketchUp day at our studio at they Waygood. Sketchup was chosen for its accessibility, and the ability to run it on PC and Apple computers(Sadnly not linux yet). It was fun and frustrating and a great learning experience. Some of us (ie Elizabeth and Alan) got right [...]
25sg residencyPDF import and editing in openoffice
One function I have found useful in openoffice is the ability to import pdfs. This is possible by downloading and installing the pdfimport plugin. This means that you can import a pdf, edit it then output it at a lower resolution for screen. (2)
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Bioplastic
Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something else. Plastic is expensive to buy for these machines, but it is all around. SO be it bio-plastic or post waste plastic, ways of reusing these provide a compelling reason to throw away less waste.
It is amazing that these materials are coming out of the factories, to be used in domestic situations. Together with polymorph and sugru, there are a variety of materials to play around for wearables, for prototypes and one offs. Bring on the future, with peer production.
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augmented foraging - cool use of layar -
augmented foraging
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A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.
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Hackable Devices
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