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23 Aug, 2008

compressed time

Posted by: brian In: technology

SInce leaving Singapore, time has become extremely compressed. I have visited SymbioticA, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Interactivation Lab, Centre for Social Robotics, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Fish Markets, Australian Maritime Museum, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Creative Industries precinct at QUT,  been on ferries in Brisbane and Sydney, and a few planes too. During this [...]

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24 Jul, 2008

12 hours and 8 time zones

Posted by: brian In: travel

Ah, Singapore, where the weather is balmy. Its my first Asian country. My fellow passenger David from www.xm-asia.com described it as Asia on Training wheels. It is certainly that. I was at the Sleepy Sams only an hour after getting off the plane, no queing for passport control, bag already on the luggage carousel,  easy [...]

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19 Apr, 2007

Holly Cow

Posted by: brian In: Uncategorized

I have been playing with avideo process that produces startling and disconcerting effects on cars, cows, fish and the like. here is one of them.

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08 Feb, 2007

the antipodean traveller

Posted by: brian In: art|travel

Im not sure if the Australian experience is unique, or mine typical, but the premise is that Australians that travel are obsessed by it, by what it means, by the process of being transplanted, separated from home. Show me any Australian artist apart from Stelarc that has not this idea of travel encoded at a [...]

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Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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PDF 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)

miniFM

miniFM
In the foreground is a Tetsuo Kogawa version (built during RadioCraftLab, during AVFest08) and in the back the remix by sonodrome (built last week at Sonodrome Central). Both assembled by me.
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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 Originally uploaded by _foam A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.
Amsterdam urban_ edibles is developing Augmented_Foraging, a  mobile phone guide to wild-food sources using Layar. Much better use of this program than finding property in Amsterdam (unless you live there of course)!
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