Originally uploaded by seanaes.
sad old building on the lake with a storm approaching
semipermanent design conference september 9 & 10 in nyc
i am curently in alaska, outside fairbanks in particular, staying with my friends dharmesh and cassie. we got big plans to visit denali and the brooks range, above the arctic circle. firstly the midnight sun thing is strangly eerie, it throws off my ny/nj ability to tell time by lookiung at the sun or a shadow or saying “its been ohh about so long since it got dark so it must be 10:00 PM” here in alaska, now, there is no “night” per se, but a long daytime and a dawn/dusk. i’ve slept weird the last two “nights”, not in the bad movie insomnia kind of way but not nearly like a baby. too many airplane vodka drinks on the way (i arrived, ahem, tipsy)or some time-zone circadian rythem issues. visit my flickr for some action shots.
its now summer-ish. time to sleep witht the windows open until it is unbearable and then open the wallet tot pay for putting the air conditioner in the window. sleeping with open windows allows you to listen tot the wonders or the night and early morning.
– garbage man talks on cell phone while collecting
– guy with shopping cart like my street for picking from garbage, particularly
– cars are loud
im sure there are others.
not here. not there. not even a paper that was due weeks ago. this is terrible.
for networked expression we made a little carnivore client called gnats
watching the balloon scene from Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev in class today. Apparently Tarkovsky wrote a book called Sculpting in Time so given my pervious obsession with The Stalker while in architecture school im going to be reading this book soon.
what would be the status of a derivative work that uses the abscence of the original. an unsample.
ex. the extended landscape of a ‘cropped’ famous image. the surroundings that existed beyond the final crop, the off camera image. anyway……
after several weeks of determining what it is we care about as a class, and then writing it down, and then voting several times and then choosing one to work on, I will be writng a scenario that tells the story of the world in 2015 when semi-industrial nations have leapfrogged or are leapfrogging established industrial nations and become new leaders in the world of (pick one or many) technology, bio-tech, economics, manufacturing etc. the premise hangs on the fact that many established industrial nations are locked in to certain infrastructures that do not allow or encourage innovation or advancement because of the upset such innovation can or does cause to the status quo and those with a vested interest in keeping things the same or at least under their control.
some quick links regarding hte leapfrog concept:
worldchanging.org
The Institute for Economic Democracy
Peter Knight
Ken Rogoff
the idea while not new seems to be well documented and should inspire some very interesting stories about the future.
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