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Big Ship Built in Okpo, Korea, Maersk Line’s first “Triple-E vessel” took 3 months to build. The Discovery Channel produced this timelapse, which consists of 50,000 photos. Big Ship
ESPL Learning Centre ESPL Learning Centre by SANAA ESPL Learning Centre
Alan Turing The Turing Machine
Macintosh 128K Macintosh 128K
SOPA PIPA I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest … SOPA PIPA
Detroit Re-Photography Dave Jordano & Aaron Rothman: Detroit Re-Photography via Design Observer Waiting Room, Michigan Central RR Depot, Detroit, 1973-2010 Detroit Re-Photography
Copy/Paste We are encountering with increased frequency that architectural designs are being copied all over the world. Internet is partly responsible to the speed of ideas dissemination, but also it seems conceptual design lacks the specificity of a handcraft, copying is … Copy/Paste
North Korea in slow motion North Korea in slow motion
VIRTUAL TIME-SPACE OF KYOTO A visualisation with 4D-GIS, virtual reality and web technologies from Ritsumeikan University, 56-1, Tojiin-kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan – 4D being spatio-temporal. I’m not so mad about the content but the proof of concept is impressive. The abstract is as follows: … VIRTUAL TIME-SPACE OF KYOTO
gego Gego
new taipei city museum of art New Taipei City Museum of Art competition entry by Federico Soriano y Asociados new taipei city museum of art
pons+huot Pons + Huot
ANnalyse du vir.age “ANnalyse du vir.age” by Gianni-Emilio Simonetti (1967) ANnalyse du vir.age
control & choice dwellings “Control and Choice Dwellings” by Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton and Ron Herron (1967) control & choice dwellings
Baron House Baron House by John Pawson Baron House
Seen Seen is an extrapolation on Watch, using the whole of Piazza San Marco in Venice as the source material. The installation is made up of 4 video projections whose video material are calculated live from a single video source. (Due … Seen
Urbanized Urbanized is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in … Urbanized
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Architecture of Fear Architecture of Fear explores how feelings of fear pervade daily life in the contemporary media society. The cause of fear seems interchangeable and constantly fluctuating. Shifting from one thing to the next, often relating to invisible or indirect phenomena’s (terrorism, … Architecture of Fear
palace-of-the-soviets Palace of the Soviets by Boris Iofan
Stuxnet: An Anatomy An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. I’m all for infographics but I find this a bit over the top. Edward Tufte would be apalled. Clair has done something similar for … Stuxnet: An Anatomy
syt1 Zine Syt Edition
Siri Getting all HAL 9000 [2001]: Introducing Siri, Apple‘s new voice recognition technology for iOS 5. Siri
Carlos-Ramos-Pavilion Carlos Ramos Pavilion
apple-1 Apple I
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britains Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of … Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Sensors Accelerometer; Touch sensor; Active pixel sensor; Air flow meter; Alarm sensor; Bhangmeter; Biochip; Biosensor; Breathalyzer; Capacitance probe Carbon paste electrode Carbon monoxide detector Catadioptric sensor Catalytic bead sensor Cationic sensor Charge-coupled device Chemical field-effect transistor CO2 sensor Colorimeter Crank sensor Curb feeler Current sensor Defect detector Displacement receiver Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor … Sensors
the-two-cultures The Two Cultures
sfn_BAR7 STUDIO FILIPPO NOSTRI
james-bills-golden-parachutes-1RR James Bills
scan-processor-studies Scan Processor Studies
Beware the inner reptile Back in the days of the “last” market crisis in 2008, a senior official at an interdealer broker – one of the firms that trade securities – observed an interesting pattern. Until then, he, like most traders, had assumed that … Beware the inner reptile
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Camera That Changed the World The summer of 1960 was a critical moment in the history of film, when the fly-on-the-wall documentary was born. The Camera that Changed the World tells the story of the filmmakers and ingenious engineers who led this revolution by building … Camera That Changed the World
Article 12 I’m not quite sure what to make of this short trailer. I can imagine the film to be quite sensationalist, though it would do well to improve debate into the issues surrounding privacy, ownership, surveillance and hacking. Decent exposure into … Article 12
Immaterials This project explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks in urban spaces by light painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs. A four-metre long measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called … Immaterials
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National Readership Survey Demographic Categories [table id=1 /] Demographic classifications in the UK refer to the social grade definitions, which are used to describe, measure and classify people of different social grade and income and earnings levels, for market research, social commentary, lifestyle statistics, and … National Readership Survey Demographic Categories
US National Debt US National Debt
tracing-urbanity Tracing Urbanity
Oversharing There’s a delirious quality to the archive fever raging across the web, from YouTube to the legion of collective blogs dedicated to particular backwaters of culture or zones of sensibility.  It’s like some kind of blind data-swarming drive, as if … Oversharing
jacques-trolley-de-prevaux World War One from Above
Cyber War The Pentagon has decided that cyber attacks launched by foreign states can be classified as acts of war – paving the way for the US to respond with military force, according to a strategy report leaked to the Wall Street … Cyber War
Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(11)00289-2 Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and conservatives on psychological measures. Variability in political attitudes reflects genetic influences and their interaction with environmental factors. Recent work has shown a correlation between liberalism and conflict-related activity measured … Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure
lucid Lucid
love-and-power Love and Power
digital-city-browser Digital City Browser
Mapumental Another project funded by 4ip, Mapumental is a mapping application that enables a user to visualise a dynamic range of linked datasets based upon custom input parameters. The above example relates public transport journey times to a given location in … Mapumental
mellier-1 Fanette Mellier
Schooloscope Funded by 4iP and built by BERG (see also Incidental Media), Schooloscope shows you quickly and simply how schools within a given search area are progressing according to the information presented within official documents like Ofsted reports and DCSF Performance Tables. An innovative web-application, … Schooloscope
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MACME MACME (Multi Author Medial Cross Ecosystem), is an open source platform that transforms a blog into a system of cross-media publishing. MACME has been issued as a giant WordPress plugin, distributed through a GPL3 license. Thanks to MACME, anyone can produce … MACME
MIT Media Lab Identity The new visual identity of the MIT Media Lab is inspired by the community it comprises: Highly creative people from all kinds of backgrounds come together, inspire each other and collaboratively develop a vision of the future. This unique offering … MIT Media Lab Identity
quantum-parallelograph Quantum Parallelograph
ConnectiCity ConnectiCity transforms the architectonic surfaces of cities into a new layer of reality built through communication, information and the visions of people. Launched for the first time in Rome, at the Festa dell’Architettura organized by the city administration and the … ConnectiCity
PTAM Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces (PTAM) from the Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford. PTAM
Powers of Ten Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from … Powers of Ten
Paintings by Minoru Nomata Paintings by Minoru Nomata Paintings by Minoru Nomata
Is it time to outsource cities? Cities are back in vogue – intellectually, at least. (In the real world, cities were never out of fashion. The world’s population has been moving to them at a more or less steady clip for thousands of years.) First there … Is it time to outsource cities?
This Too Shall Pass This Too Shall Pass by OK Go This Too Shall Pass
Unsolicited Architecture Unsolicited Architecture
SUPERPRODUCCIÓN na737.d56,i62,2007 via archidose + respecta SUPERPRODUCCIÓN
3x4variations-poster-k The 892 unique ways to partition a 3 x 4 grid
rrsdiscovery RSS Discovery
bridget-riley Bridget Riley
pantone-pallete-cleansers PANTONE pallete cleansers
ski-jumps The Madness of Temporary Ski Jumps
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Helmut Schmid: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.
Bank of Freelance Dropped by alisio. Bank of Freelance
unwrappingLib 0003beta new unwrappingLib v0003beta available: www.deffekt.ch/unwrappingLib
“In ‘You are the City’, a book by Petra Kempf’s, 22 diagram drawings are split into four operational categories: Cosmological Ground; Leglisative Agencies; Currents, Flows and Forces; Nodes, Loops and Connections….By combining different sheets, and adding layers, a huge range of different …
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logic-licht logic licht
subjectivity Subjectivity
Space Project, by Vincent Fournier | Art | Wallpaper* Magazine
Time Out of Place 09:30 mins / 16:9 Widescreen / 2007 HD/DVD Installation Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
thisthatandwhatnot: dvdp – Hubble view of Vesta
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illillill: Llama Rider
gorg: External Design Inspiration – Awesome Graphic Design by Metric72 | Cromoart
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liquidatomicgonads: A metaphor for life.
Creative Applications Network Creative Applications Network
We are all cyborgs now Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines … We are all cyborgs now
villa-dall-ava La Villa Dall’ava
Impure Bestiario, a tech start-up based in Barcelona have been exploring and inventing new interactive visualisation methods for the past 5 years. With a vast and hugely impressive back catalogue, their most recent triumph is a web application called Impure. Currently … Impure
Behind TED Video by m ss ng p eces Executive producer Jason Wishnow Produced by Ari Kuschnir and Ben Nabors Directed by Josh Nussbaum (m ss ng p eces) Filmed by Josh Nussbaum and Todd Banhazl Edited by Adam McClelland Behind TED
Culturomics I’m a fan of Google Trends but this goes one better. A team from Harvard led by postdoctoral fellow Jean Baptiste Michel have recently released a paper entitled the Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. The abstract is as follows: … Culturomics
Changing Education Paradigms Changing Education Paradigms
Open Source Banking An interesting concept I have been reading about recently is a that of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which is something that appears to be championed by a British company called Zopa – an enterprise that derives its name from the ‘zone of possible … Open Source Banking
F L U X Created by visual artist Candas Sisman and inspired by the work of İlhan Koman, F L U X is quite breathtaking. It is a virtual architecture in a contant state of morphosis, a form that transcends any manual or analogue equivalent. … F L U X
Apples could be the key to learning Maths, English, Geography… whatever else people think about education, it’s taken for granted that children will attend classes in a range of disciplines. But what if they didn’t? What if they studied just one topic – such as apples – … Apples could be the key to learning
Incidental Media Incidental Media is a film sketch by Dentsu London as part of their ongoing ‘Making Future Magic’ strategy: Making Future Magic was partly conceived as a way to avoid making horrible use of media that makes everyone feel like Chief … Incidental Media
Idiot [audio:http://www.insoc.co.uk/uploads/audio/06%20Idiot.mp3] [audio:01 Night Out Intro.mp3] Idiot
My little piece of privacy Something of a modern day Heath Robinson, Niklas Roy’s recent project is a complete contradiction: it is complicated and clever, yet simple and ridiculous at the same time. He has produced a whole host of interesting and entertaining projects which … My little piece of privacy
The ‘New Mathematics’ of Architecture We have reached the end of a decade and a half in which digital computation has given architects new creative opportunities to access the geometrical space opened up by post-17th-century mathematicians. The resulting new wave of interest in the relationship … The ‘New Mathematics’ of Architecture
Local Code Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system. Using parametric design, a landscape proposal for each site is tailored to local … Local Code
Race Online “It’s a real testament to how mainstream the internet has become that Hollywood has made a film about Facebook. But even an old dotcom dinosaur like me can work out that the internet has changed life beyond recognition. In Britain … Race Online
Crises of Capitalism A part of the RSA‘s recent Animate series, social theorist David Harvey questions whether it is time for a new capitalism – a capitalism that could be both ‘responsible, just, and humane.’ With the empowering of financiers set to continue … Crises of Capitalism
Augmented Reality and the Gartner Hype Cycle With all the current hype surrounding Augmented Reality (AR) I often wonder where we stand, in terms of its overall evolution and logical conclusion. No doubt we will continue to see countless gimmicks but what will happen when we all … Augmented Reality and the Gartner Hype Cycle
Haiti & OSM The Haitian earthquake on 12th January 2010 was catastrophic in scale, with an estimated 230,000 deaths and 1,000,000 people made homeless. The Haitian Government estimated that 250,000 residential and 30,000 non-residential buildings had either collapsed or been severely damaged. The … Haiti & OSM
city-2-an-introductory-guide City 2.0: An Introductory Guide
Street Slide Street Slide is a recent research project by Microsoft that allows seamless transition between the  360° panoramic  ’bubbles’ already familiar from photographic mapping services such as Google’s Street View and Bing’s Streetside. Similar to the Community Photo Collections project at the University … Street Slide
Lisbon Traffic Pedro M Cruz has been developing visualisations of Lisbon’s traffic movements over various periods of time. I particularly like this one above, which has been somewhat abstracted, but the overall effect is visually stunning. His Empires Decline animation is also … Lisbon Traffic
Dutch Power Anonymous utility buildings dot our cities, keeping the other buildings humming – but they’re almost never part of the aesthetic fabric of the urban scene. Taking this into account, it is exciting to see this unique power plant clad in … Dutch Power
London Underground Live The above video demonstrates use of TFL’s new API Beta, which fetches live departure data and places it onto a Google map in realtime. A live version is normally available but the API is currently down due to overwhelming demand. The … London Underground Live
Yell Maps Having been impressed with Google’s steady introduction of their auto-generated 3D city meshes, I was equally surprised with Yell’s offering (above), which is the first of its kind for London.  Powered by C3 Technologies the photo-realistic 3D maps are created from aerial film footage … Yell Maps
In the Air In the Air is a visualisation project which aims to make visible the microscopic and invisible agents of Madrid´s air (gases, particles, pollen, diseases, etc), to see how they perform, react and interact with the rest of the city. I … In the Air
The Geotaggers’ World Atlas Eric Fischer has conducted some interesting studies of major world cities by re-mapping them according to the frequency of geo-tagged images sourced from both Flickr and Picasa. His method is not exactly clear but I assume the vector information is … The Geotaggers’ World Atlas
Augmenting the Berlin Wall Layar is clearly leading the race in developing AR for the smartphone masses. As the number of layers approaches 1000, I would argue there has been little in the way of real interest and quality to date, but this one … Augmenting the Berlin Wall
Augmented History It may be an advert but this clip is a superb demonstration of the notion of using the virtual to enhance the physical by way of augmented reality. Such a reality may be a long way off but if achieved … Augmented History
Entrance Sequence This is a short test sequence showing the transition between the street and ground foyer. This is the ‘open’ configuration with shutters rotated to form a canopy above with the aim of drawing people in. The space is deliberately minimal … Entrance Sequence
Design Diary Design Diary
AR Pilot I have been exploring the use of Augmented Reality (AR), a pivotal part of my Thesis in terms of experiencing both the building and the city. This is a quick demo showing a range of geometries including simple animated content, … AR Pilot
Unity Pilot [WP_UnityObject src="http://insoc.co.uk/html/unity/pilot/pilot.unity3d" width="500" height="281"/] Unity is a integrated authoring tool for 3D content visualisation capable of producing applications for Windows, Mac, Wii or even the iPhone. Although primarily conceived for the gaming industry, it has great potential for the distribution … Unity Pilot
Augmented Reality Maps Augmented Reality Maps
openFrameworks During my research into the interactive aspects of my thesis I stumbled across openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. Unfortunately I am not going to have the time to delve into the actual programming but there are … openFrameworks
Model Construction I began my detailed 3D model on Monday – these images show some of my progress to date. The design is by no means finalised; working at this detail is in fact beginning to pose more and more questions… This … Model Construction
Massing Model [kml_flashembed movie="/wp-content/monoslideshow/massingone/monoslideshow.swf" base="/wp-content/monoslideshow/massingone" height="375" width="500" fvars="showLogo=false"] A few process photos of my evolving massing model which I am modelling at 200 scale. I have been using it to test ideas from the 3D computer model before repeating the cycle again, … Massing Model
MxR Architecture This was a Thesis by Daniel Belcher for his Masters of Science in Design Computing at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington. I particularly like the demonstration where he manipulates the heliodon which in … MxR Architecture
Site Overshadowing This animation shows the sunlight overshadowing (0400-2000h) with the proposal shown below. Admittedly it is the summer solstice but given that there is zero residential property within the immediate surroundings (the adjacent buildings are predominantly warehouses that supply Morgan arcade … Site Overshadowing
Massing Update A quick shot showing some design development. I have also been exploring this through physical modelling photos of which will follow shortly. The building is turning into something of a puzzle with interlocking volumes of varying height, scale and orientation. … Massing Update
Site Sections These are the basic site sections showing the broader city context and relative scale. Site Sections
Initial Elevations These are abstract studies of the building’s form and materiality. There is still a long way to go, particularly with the eastern elevation (right) which is looking awkward. Initial Elevations
Panoramic Study The image above is a 360 degree panoramic from Baker’s Row taken approximately 35 metres above ground. I have re-projected the photograph using different techniques, which I intend to use to map the different views one would experience throughout the … Panoramic Study
City Dynamics This is my updated city dynamics sheet. A work in progress, it needs additional data as well as annotation to explain the various urban scenarios. City Dynamics
Blur Building Over forty years later, Diller and Scofidio’s Blur Building was a unique sensory experience but it also featured technologically advanced ’brain coats’ – wearable raincoats with wireless communication devices that would inform an indication of either positive or negative affinity between … Blur Building
Philips Pavilion I have begun to explore the elements of my programme that are to integrate with certain layers of the digital city as the spatial experience of my building will be defined not only by the physical architectural language but also … Philips Pavilion
Baker’s Row I am currently working up some site character studies along with material and architectural precedents in order to effectively explain my outline scheme for Monday’s crit. This is a high-res photo montage of Baker’s Row looking south comprising some twenty … Baker’s Row
Elevation Time-Lapse A bit of an interlude… I am interested in recording my design development over time; an attempt to to convey some of the ‘invisible’ development process work prevalent in digital design. This is a simple (therefore not particularly interesting) test … Elevation Time-Lapse
Typology Field This is the beginnings of my 3D investigation; each element has been modelled quite spontaneously based upon the programme requirement. Some of these are flexible, others bespoke i.e. some are mildly reconfigurable networked ‘event’ spaces, whereas others are far more … Typology Field
Programme An updated programme diagram that includes relative areas prior to working in 3D. Programme
City Dynamics These two sheets will eventually be ‘wired’ together (see sketch below) to demonstrate the potential for semantic city feeds that visualise the rhythms and fluctuations of the city. With suitable annotation they will also help to illustrate the open event … City Dynamics
fig5 City Feed Architecture
Mapping City 2.0 This is very much a work in progress…a cloud diagram to map the extent of City 2.0. The backdrop is an extract from The Century is Over, an Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture – published by Charles Jencks in 2000, … Mapping City 2.0
sketch-section Sketch Section
programme-weave Programme Weave
algorithmic-programming Algorithmic Programming
Augmented Pilot This is the first test at augmenting 3D geometry into my physical 200 scale model below. Excuse the quality; I had to record my own screen with a video camera in order to capture it. There are obvious limitations in … Augmented Pilot
Site Model This is the 200 scale white card model I have been working on. This photo shows the existing roofscape. This photo shows the initial massing model at 200 scale. At the moment it is nothing more than a shell with … Site Model
City Model This is a photo of my incomplete city model which I had laser-etched last week. The next stage is to cut the buildings although I plan to hold off until I have a better idea of how I would like … City Model
axo Axo
Metropolis Metropolis is a ten minute film by Rob Carter. The final three minutes are shown above. The following is an extract from the narrative: Metropolis is a quirky and very abridged history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It … Metropolis
Site Massing Model I am about to begin a site massing model at 1.500 but wanted to explore the aesthetic in 3D beforehand. This is a render from the model I will be printing from – the emphasis will not only be on … Site Massing Model
City Feed Demo To complement the city event ‘feed’ architecture I am preparing a hypothetical dataset of all major city fluctuations over a single year. The main graphical output will be that of a timeline with line displacement and moving average overlay. City Feed Demo
Initial Sketch The product of today’s environmental design lecture… Initial Sketch
GeoTime GeoTime Information Visualization is a paper by Thomas Kapler and William Wright. It was originally released in 2004 but is becoming increasingly relevant as the temporal relevancy of the Web improves. Researchers at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) … GeoTime
City 2.0: New Urban Realities Through Open-Sourced Ubiquitous Informatics Our so-called ‘information society’ is an increasingly urban society; the information age is an age where more people are living in cities than in rural areas. The dissertation seeks to explore the critical relationship between two of the most significant … City 2.0: New Urban Realities Through Open-Sourced Ubiquitous Informatics
Cartagen Cartagen was created by Jeffrey Warren in the Design Ecology group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Along with the advent of geo style sheets (GSS) it represents a significant step towards bringing the OpenStreetMap dataset closer … Cartagen
data.gov.uk An extract from the Cabinet Office’s recent news release: CAB 005-10 20 January 2010 A major new website has been launched to the public which gives anyone who wants to use it unprecedented and free access to government data in … data.gov.uk
Thesis Geofeed Note: You may need to install the Google Earth browser plugin in order to view this post correctly. You can orbit by depressing the mouse wheel in addition to zoom and panning. A larger version is available here. This is … Thesis Geofeed
The Third & The Seventh A film by Alex Roman made entirely using CG… The Third & The Seventh
Pre Analysis I managed to get this plan from the site manager at OscarClarke containing all of the unit names for the adjacent commercial units. Unfortunately it seems there is no detailed survey of the complex and building structure as modern works … Pre Analysis
Defining The Decade: A Googling We Go Edward Stourton tries to make sense of a decade in which history has been put on fast forward. There has been a revolution in the way we communicate, widespread alarm about the planet’s very survival and a challenge to the … Defining The Decade: A Googling We Go
Ataque de Panico Ataque de Panico is a remarkable short film made by Fede Alvarez, a relatively unknown producer from Uruguay. True to the wonder of our networked society he has just been offered a $30m contract after uploading it to YouTube. Ataque de Panico
Sea the Sea (Red) Sea the Sea (Red)
An Update I will be spending the next few weeks mainly focusing on the Dissertation so I thought it a useful point to summarise my thoughts thus far. Perhaps as a response to the underlying ‘shift’ the city centre is undergoing with … An Update
primer City 2.0
Roofscape Survey I have been busy modelling the existing roofscape above the Morgan and Royal Arcades. It will be important to establish the existing complexity of form at all layers…roofscape, basement, floor level etc. in order to gain a true understanding of … Roofscape Survey
The Dalton Gang Hideout Inspiration towards some of the ‘secret’ programmatic elements! The Dalton Gang Hideout
Frédéric Chopin Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp, Op. 36 by Joel Hastings Frédéric Chopin Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp, Op. 36 by Joel Hastings
The Arcades Project I spent most of yesterday strolling through the arcades in search of inspiration to potentially inform a site. A bit of further research led me to The Arcades Project, a recent series of studies and events led by local artist Jennie … The Arcades Project
Hard copy? I recently began accumulating blog entries with the hope that the end result would be an ‘open’ record of my final year design thesis. As keen follower of Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLG, I am often surprised at the sheer abundance of … Hard copy?
Tracing Urbanity I recently stumbled on this short film featuring Rem Koolhaas and an unknown gentleman discussing the boundaries of architecture and urbanism. I think the narrative is wonderfully eloquent: it draws nicely upon the idea of urbanism as being ‘fundamentally generous’ … Tracing Urbanity
Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing? Martin Ebner and Hermann Maurer from Graz University of Technology have written a paper that seeks to question, given the current trend in Web 2.0 technology, the traditional approach to learning through writing and reviewing. The full text can be … Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing?
Pachube Pachube is a web service that enables you to store, share & discover realtime sensor, energy and environment data from objects, devices & buildings around the world. Pachube is a convenient, secure & scalable platform that helps you connect to … Pachube
The Sentient City: A Survival Kit The Sentient City Survival Kit is a project by Mark Shepard The Sentient City: A Survival Kit
OSM to KML Daily OSM changeset dumps are available as KML at http://www.fxfoo.com/osm/kml/ OSM to KML
Linked GeoData The Linked Geo Data browser and editor (available at http://linkedgeodata.org/browser) is a facet-based browser for geo content, which uses an OLAP inspired hypercube for quickly retrieving aggregated information about any user selected area on earth from the OpenStreetMap database. It … Linked GeoData
DWG to KML Sofos Ioannis from GeoSolution, a Greek software developer, has developed a utility to convert between DWG and KML. Microstation has had this functionality enabled for quite some time but it is a welcome addition for geo-referencing detailed drawing data. http://www.geosolution.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=6 DWG to KML
UCODO http://www.ucodo.com/ UCODO
Digital City This the film I presented at the Crit. It is certainly a work in progress… Frustratingly, I seemed to spend such a large amount of time learning as opposed to creating but I will continue to work on it as … Digital City
final-test Final Test
3D Tracking Test I finally worked out how to render a 3D object (the good old teapot) in a scene using motion tracking. This test footage is a bit jittery in places but you get the idea. The next step would be to … 3D Tracking Test
Aerial Route This is an example of the footage that will be shown as part of the route. It will be synchronised along with the other aspects of the sequence, elements of which will accumulate over time. It was achieved recording a … Aerial Route
Sense Networks “Location data is everywhere. Cars, buses, taxis, mobile phones, cameras, and personal navigation devices all beacon their locations thanks to network-connected positioning technologies such as GPS, WiFi and cell tower triangulation. Millions of consumers and businesses use location-enabled devices for … Sense Networks
Memorial Memory Another test sequence this time overlaying, rather than augmenting. The clip shows Pathe newsreel footage of a WWI memorial service circa 1932. The aim is to explore the notion of a digital sense of place – an enhancement of reality … Memorial Memory
Visualising City Wide Data Clever from the people over at CASA but it would be more useful as KML. Nevertheless data such as this in the open source is an interesting prospect. Visualising City Wide Data
Centreplan 70 Conceived back in the late sixties, Centreplan 70 was the name of a master-plan to redevelop Cardiff’s city centre. Thankfully it was never realised, due in part to the 1970s property recession. This film is my cut on the original, … Centreplan 70
Motion Tracking Motion Tracking
OSM-GPS This animation was rendered in Google Earth and sources all raw GPS trace data from the OpenStreetMap database to date. The frequency of tracking is relatively low compared to other major cities but it would be interesting, not only to … OSM-GPS
Der Lauf Der Dinge (1987) The original COG. Der Lauf Der Dinge (1987)
Pilot Two This is my second pilot which involved motion-tracking the base footage using Mocha and then rendering an image or animation on top with After Effects. It may not look like much but it took a long time to fathom. There … Pilot Two
Pilot One A bit of an experiment with my conventional camera while I wait for the fish-eye lens to arrive. The overlay, which would most likely be shown in parallel, is an extraction from the raw GPS trace data of Cardiff’s OpenStreetMap. … Pilot One
Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth
Rides 2004-2009 Rides 2004-2009
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Primer Contract Intellectual Merit The principle aim of this primer is to demonstrate the next generation of crowd-sourced mapping and its potential not only to redefine our image of the city, but to form the basis for a new, open source, architecture … Primer Contract
Underground Madrid Underground Madrid
Unity 3D [WP_UnityObject src="http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/players/island.unity3d" width="500" height="281"/] Unity is a integrated authoring tool for 3D content visualisation capable of producing applications for Windows, Mac, Wii or even the iPhone. Although primarily conceived for the gaming industry, it has great potential for the distribution … Unity 3D
Creatable Augmented Reality Creatable Augmented Reality
Open Source Figure Ground The above slippy Figure Ground map of the City was made using CloudMade’s Style Editor. Powered by the OpenStreetMap database, it will improve in detail, accuracy, and consistency over time. Beyond conventional cartographic representation, this method could be used to … Open Source Figure Ground
Finding Paths through the World’s Photos Finding Paths through the World’s Photos
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Building Rome in a Day This animation is taken from the Community Photo Collections project at the University of Washington GRAIL Lab, which explores the use of large scale internet image collections for furthering research in computer vision and graphics. See also the paper entitled … Building Rome in a Day
David Hockney paints with his iPhone David Hockney, the 71-year old English painter, has joined the digital revolution and taken to painting pictures with his iPhone. “Having invested in the popular Apple device only four months ago, Hockney is hooked and has even invested in a mini … David Hockney paints with his iPhone
San Marco Square from GRAIL San Marco Square from GRAIL
Hans Rosling on World Datasets Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates his new series of Hans Rosling on World Datasets
The Next Web of Open, Linked Data The Next Web of Open, Linked Data
3D Map of Bournemouth 3D Map of Bournemouth
Abstract Earth Powered by Google Earth, this animation uses a blank KML overlay to abstract the conventional sattelite view. The reading of the frequency and pattern of georeferenced content is improved; popular built icons are enhanced. Abstract Earth
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
London Courier A time-lapse animation showing courier movements across London over two days. London Courier
Mobile Phones Get Cyborg Vision http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8193951.stm Mobile Phones Get Cyborg Vision
Fly Cab by Tomas Apodaca Cabspotting traces San Francisco’s taxi cabs as they travel throughout the Bay Area. The patterns traced by each cab create a living and always-changing map of city life. This map hints at economic, social, and cultural trends that are otherwise … Fly Cab by Tomas Apodaca
FAS gets a new animation FAS gets a new animation
Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit
3D Japan 3D Japan
Museum Plaza in Louisville by OMA Museum Plaza in Louisville by OMA
Mapping Party: Milton Keynes Mapping Party: Milton Keynes
CityEngine and OSM [youtube Su0kdgOgd8E 571 345] Via OpenStreetMap, real existing street networks can be imported directly into the CityEngine via the .OSM [xml] file format. CityEngine and OSM
Path Mapping Andy Woodruff at Cartogrammar has recorded his movement through the city and produced some striking images: “Just for kicks, here’s everywhere I have been in my local area since the first of the year. Yeah, I know every nerd with … Path Mapping
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Flight Density by Takanori Makitani Flight density during one week between international airports. From SD Magazine [Japan] Source: Herdeg, Walter. Graphis Diagrams. 4th Expanded ed. Zurich, Switzerland: Graphics Press Corp., 1981. http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project.cfm?id=67 Flight Density by Takanori Makitani
introducing OpenStreetMap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://www.itoworld.com/static/osmmapper introducing OpenStreetMap
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OSM 2008: a year of edits An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. “OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a … OSM 2008: a year of edits
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facebook is ‘infantilising’ the human mind http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/24/facebook-is-infantilising-the-human-mind/ facebook is ‘infantilising’ the human mind
stephen fry on the internet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7926509.stm stephen fry on the internet