Maskingtape
Screening the windowframe of reality from the clumsy brushwork of Dan Eastwell.
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Jun 29
(by hello hand)
Jun 26
» Sound less loud
This short link has made me think about urban noise. There’s a lot of it, and generally it’s awful. It also made me think back to my trip to Japan, where, as I recall it (probably erroneously) there was a lot less noise, and ‘undesigned’ incidental noises, such as alarms, announcements, etc were less intrusive (the birdsong compared to the beep of equal volume).
It’s also made me think about regularly commuting. The announcements on the train I travel on comprise:
- A welcome announcement
- A welcome announcement in four languages
- A security announcement
- A station announcement
This is done first automatically, then by the conductor, it must amount to four minutes of loudspeaker modulated speech, a lot of it uneccessary.
Jun 16
Jun 15
In 1719, the book dealer, medicine merchant and one-time spy Louis Renard published a unique book by artist Samuel Fallour. Fishes, Crayfishes, and Crabs was the world’s first colour book of fish. (via Gallery - The fantasy fish of Samuel Fallours - Image 1 - New Scientist
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http://www.nlarchitects.nl/django/slideshow/21/#
Pearl river necklace border crossing proposal, involving a bridge to switch traffic from left to right, between China and Hong Kong
Jun 10
“ The laser was invented just 50 years ago. Then nobody thought lasers might register barcodes in a supermarket, or read a disc in a DVD player. Nobody foresaw that lasers might identify the DNA base-pairs in a gene-sequencing machine or transmit messages by fibreoptic cable. That lasers could be valuable for fine surgery of the eye was unthinkable, let alone that they might kickstart nuclear fusion to produce green energy. Certainly nobody predicted that it might eventually be possible to focus the spot produced by a laser to just one nanometer — a circle of light two thousand times smaller than the smallest life-form on this planet — and possibly produce a powerful microscope capable of looking inside individual molecules.
Jun 07
Eric “The Incredimazing” Fischer used advanced geo-logic to filter tourists from locals in his Geotagger’s World Atlas. (via Damn, Tourists! « Burrito Justice
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Jun 01
“ Your parents never told you “verb in the middle” (if you’re English) or “verb at the end” (if you’re German) but still you picked it up. And, more remarkable, once you did, have you any idea how come this sentence breaks the rules but read it you still can? These abilities demonstrate what’s known as “tacit knowledge” - something as big and taken for granted as “air”, “thought”, or “language”. Take away tacit knowledge and the human world disappears. Without it, what we think of as knowledge, the “stuff” contained in our books and intellectual artefacts, would make no sense and be no more than noise. The big question is whether, or how far, this tacit knowledge can be made explicit.
May 31
“ Alaska has a longer coastline than all other U.S. states combined.
