Presents past
Monday, March 17th, 2008Worth1000 - Vintage Ads Photoshop Contest (via textually)
Nintendo Wii by gugacurado
Segway by DocMinor
Nokia Mobile by RebelD0g
- Anne
Archive for March, 2008
Getting to know spaces and cultures
Thursday, March 13th, 2008It seems that local author Rob McLennan found some of my students’ work online, and realised we had shared interests. Indeed, Rob has just published a new book, Ottawa: The Unknown City, as part of Arsenal Pulp Press’ “alternative city guides for both locals and tourists.” You can take a look at this excerpt (pdf), […]
Responding to invitations
Thursday, March 13th, 2008As the Desire Paths Flickr Pool makes the rounds, I thought I’d point to Matt’s recent article, Accepting Invitations: Desire Lines as Earthly Offerings
I would like to suggest that desire lines are not merely the product of a human-desiring, nor are they merely a material expression of some aspect of the human imagination; rather, desire […]
Neo-Geo and the Mapping of Non-Motorized Transport
Sunday, March 9th, 2008When we cyclists leave it to urban planners to determine where in the city we should and shouldn’t ride our bikes we tend to find ourselves mingling uncomfortably with SUVs, pedestrians, not-so-efficient-routes, and dead-ends. How often, here in Edmonton for example, has the “bike lane” I’ve so naively pursued stopped short, sending me headlong into […]
Urban game space, urban play space
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Speaking of parkour and vertical mobility, serial consign reports on a new video game in development:
The narrative revolves around Faith, a nimble traceur in a predictably totalitarian, ultra-sterile futuristic cityscape. Faith, a parkour courier, has been charged with delivering some extremely valuable information - so valuable in fact that she finds herself relentlessly pursued through […]