For when you gotta go…
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Public washroom signs in Bangkok by Jan Chipchase
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Open
Monday, June 18th, 2007Open is a “bi-annual journal about art and the public domain” - although I think it’s fair to say it covers all sorts of topics related to space and culture. Here are a few of the articles available online:
‘How Many Movements?’ Mobile Telephones and Transformations in Urban Space by Caroline Bassett
Mobile telephones create aural space […]
Virtual cars get actual tickets
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Modern Japanese Classic by Benedict Radcliffe
Kosmograd reports: “The wireframe car, sits impassively, unexplained, a ghost from the virtual. It marks a point of slippage between the world and a mirror world. It certainly confused the hell out of local parking wardens, who issued it with a number of tickets.”
(via rhizome.org)
Everyday life
Thursday, June 14th, 2007“Change and difference are not what separate us or tear us apart but the constituents of what glues us together—the very dynamic of all social process.”
–Neil Blair Christensen, Inuit in Cyberspace
Photo Essay: What the World Eats
Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of UlaanbaatarFood expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02Family recipe: Mutton dumplings
Mexico: The Casales family […]
Tuesday gazette
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007We recently watched Jacques Tati’s 1967 film Playtime, so were quite taken by Adam Greenfield’s post on Playtime, mobile culture and the city, and the conversation between him and Enrique Ramirez in the comments.
Michael Jenson brings up related concerns in his essay “New Urban topologies: The Desire for Public Place in the Age of Virtual […]