Jan 31 2012
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Jan 24 2012
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Atemporality in big budget pop music.
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
(Source: youtube.com)
Dec 15 2011
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“ There’s a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The Iceman, who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian Alps. Mike Goldstein, the guy who got the tattoo, said the series of 10 simple lines arranged in groups of four, three, and three served to remind him that you don’t have to be incredibly important during your lifetime in order to be important. “It reminds me that I can live however I want,” he says in the book. “I don’t have to work in an office or wear a tie, as are the expectations of our culture. I can walk across the Alps and die in a swamp, and that’s OK.
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If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built in 1997....
Three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to our memories.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, running under Windows 95. We recommend using a Virtual Machine or appropriate hardware, connected to a CRT monitor. If such an environment unachievable, it should be possible to experience the piece with any browser that still supports HTML Frames. The transfer speed of our server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).
Apr 22 2010
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Play it Again, Corb
It’s rather tragic that the Fondation Le Corbusier insisted that this replica of Ronchamp in Zhengzhou be destroyed. It would have been his most important work, and a great example of atemporailty today. Via Zoohaus.
Apr 11 2010
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Mar 05 2010
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Star Wars on Earth
More atemporality. This time Star Wars characters in appropriate real world situations. See here.
Feb 28 2010
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on digital photography
The role of the family photo changed at a glacial pace over its first hundred years. Initially they emulated paintings, the subjects formally posing for long exposure times. The Kodak Brownie and Instamatic made photography portable, allowing for more casual photographs to be taken. Still, a degree of formality was necessary and photographs were expensive objects, largely serving to mark special occasions and the passage of time.
Today, digital photography allows us to seamlessly see ourselves growing older and our children growing up. If, thanks to Facebook, Generation Y is the first generation that will not experience the phenomenon of losing touch, the next generation may be the first generation whose entire lives will be traceable online. Today’s NYT Magazine has a story on the relationship between digital photography and childhood today, the latter becoming a training ground for immediated reality.
With personal history that fine-grained, can temporality continue to function anymore? Or does it disperse into the IPTC code of the camera?
Feb 27 2010
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Todd Baxter Photography
The work of Todd Baxter. Atemporal art often demonstrates a collision of past visions of other times.
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Feb 23 2010
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Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time
Researchers use cell phone data to suggest that human movement is predictable up to 93% of the time.
Feb 22 2010
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How to be a Retronaut
There’s some good material for the #atemporality project over at How to be a Retronaut.
Feb 13 2010
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Why People Use Pay Phones
The New York Times looks at the remaining pay phones in the city and why people use them: read here.
Feb 05 2010
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Accidental Flickr maps
A New Scientist article looks at a data visualization project that used Flickr tags and images to produce maps of the world.
Jan 31 2010
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Cyberwar on Critical Infrastructure
Wired tells us that McAfee just issued a report indicating that critical infrastructures worldwide are under near constant attack from nations like the United States and China. Is it just a matter of time before this Cold War surfaces? Read more here.
Jan 29 2010
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Google Knows Where You Are
Google recently applied for a patent to sniff out where wireless users are located based on the packets they send. See here. Via Slashdot.
