This site's a compendium of people, places, ideas and things I love (at least noticed) and want to share.
Fiona Hall: Force Field – Currency, Formerly
Part three of a four part video looking at the work of artist Fiona Hall in the exhibition FORCE FIELD at the City Gallery Wellington. Fiona Hall City Gallery Wellington Art Artis When My Boat Comes In – detail, photo by cicadas , image by Fiona Hall.
Read more →Links for 2009-01-04: The Creature Crisis
The Creature Crisis
In New Zealand we could discover and name a new species every day for a long time, with the right level of resources applied to the task. New Zealand ranks among Conservation International’s top-25 biodiversity hotspots – “the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth”. About 80% of [...]
Links for 2008-11-13: Travel
Street with a View
Reality intervention: Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View. Then neighbors and passers-by noticed what was going on and got in on the action, devising their own unplanned scenarios.
(tags: art googlemaps maps artisticintervention technology mapping fiction streetwithaview)
transfercar – from a to [...]
Read more →Links for 2008-11-12: Evolving Evolution
transfercar – from a to b for free
Great idea – Transfercar makes it easy for rental car companies that need to relocate vehicles and travelers that want to save money to find each other. Travelers get a free ride driving "relocation cars" for the rental companies, which saves them costs as well.
(tags: free transportation travel [...]
Links for 2008-11-10: Web for Change
Al Gore and the Purpose-Driven Web
Forget about swapping party pictures on Facebook and other “gee-whiz stuff,” says former Vice President Al Gore. “Web 2.0 has to have a purpose.” “The purpose, I would urge all of you — as many of you as are willing to take it up — is to bring about a [...]
Links for 2008-09-28: Open Everything
openeverything.net
Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It's about thinking, doing and being open.
(tags: open opensource participatory art science community)
Links for 2008-09-09: Friendly Invaders
Friendly Invaders
When Europeans began arriving in New Zealand, they brought with them alien plants — crops, garden plants and stowaway weeds. Today, 22,000 non-native plants grow in New Zealand. Most of them can survive only with the loving care of gardeners and farmers. But 2,069 have become naturalized: they have spread out across the islands [...]
Links for 2008-09-05: 3D Printing
Shapeways | passionate about creating
Print-on-demand fabbing service where you can upload or create 3D designs and order plastic printouts of them.
(tags: design art technology community diy tools service 3d manufacturing fabricating prototyping rapidprototyping sculpture fabrication models printing crowdsourcing)
Links for 2008-08-31: Open Things
littleBits
ittleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits [...]
Enjoying Calliflower with Peter Senge
A recent live talk with Peter Senge through Calliflower introduced me both to this great tool for conference calls and webinars and Senge’s compelling new book, The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World.
Calliflower impressed me with sophisticated features for managing and participating in calls with an [...]
Book Notes from New Zealand
On Monday, I visited the National Library of New Zealand in Wellington for a discussion on ‘first fictions’ with the writers of two of last year’s most highly praised debut novels here. Mary McCallum (The Blue ) and Susan Pearce (Acts of Love) explored the themes and process of creating their books with Kate Duignan, [...]
Read more →Greetings from the Antipodes
Hello from Down Under. I am proceeding as a global nomad for the time being.
Antipodes map by Daryl Cockburn.
What does the Global Climate Crisis have in common with the Loch Ness Monster ?
A. Both are fictional. Or at least highly speculative.
No. We’ve already established that.
B. Both indicate danger, especially around bodies of water.
Sure, but we’re looking for a more specific answer.
C. How about tree-fitty.
Exactly! Tree-fitty.
What’s tree-fitty?
Loch Ness Monster: $3.50
Global Climate Crisis: 350 is the red line for human beings, the most important number on the planet. The [...]