I was recently in New York to attend The Next HOPE, the 8th
Hackers On Planet Earth conference. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth)is a conference sponsored by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. While returning home from the event, I was thinking of a friend of mine who would have enjoyed the conference as much as I did. So I sent her an email..
Ten Reasons Why You Should Attend HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth)
Concrete & Design
Stefan Zwicky’s concrete version of the Le Corbusier Chair.
According to The Skeptical Environmentalist, concrete is used more than any other construction material in the world. I imagine this is because it’s fairly cheap, and resources for making concrete are practically unlimited. The down side to this is that concrete contributes to global emissions [...]
Lucy McRae and Bart Hess
Bubblle Dress
Lucy McRae is often described as a “body architect.” Her interests lie in fashion, technology, and the human body. In a collaborative piece with Rachel Wingfield, she developed a body suit called Frisson for Philips Design Probe. The garment has LEDs that light up as biometric sensors respond to being blown [...]
MOT-Space For Your Future
Space For Your Future is the current exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The exhibition features multidisciplinary work categorized into four groups: Body-Inner Space, Metaphor, Body Sensation, and Memory/Data. Together they propose how we will live and communicate in the future.
My favorite spaces are Body-Inner and Memory/Data:
Body-Inner Space features Cosmic Wonder’s Magic [...]
Fluidcity, whoa
FluidCity…
