Archive for the 'Media & communications' Category

Welcome to the new game city, real but not actual

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Liberty City is inspired by New York, but not beholden to it. While there are many parallels, Liberty exists in its own universe and rightfully so. Many open-world games have cities that feel as if they existed only from the moment you first turned on your console, but Liberty City looks lived in. It’s an […]

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Arturas Valiauga: I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life (2002-2003)
An old lady and her middle-aged son live in a modestly furnished house. Some of the photos show the two of them at home, on the sofa, at the kitchen table, or on the edge of the bed. What was most important to the […]

Bouquet for Edmonton

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Marilei Fiorelli has created ephemeral winter art for Edmonton, which has had over a week of below -20C cold. Snow graffitti flowers make a bouquet for a frozen city. Check out her blog for more, before it melts! Let’s make an annual tradition out of this - if one can have […]

The complex (data) behaviours of the street

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I never cease to be impressed by the quality of Dan Hill’s thinking and writing on urban spaces and technology. In his most recent post on the street as platform, Dan claims that “the way the street feels may soon be defined by what cannot be seen with the naked eye.” He draws out detailed […]

Subway!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Vintage Sesame Street: Subway!
Cool.
- Anne

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