http://homesweet.stoopdice.com Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:20:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1564 I was recently lent a great documentary film about Lancashire based film duo Mitchell and Kenyon. The pair were active in the early 1900s and shot Edwardian life to use as entertainment in the traveling shows. For example they would set up their camera to take footage of factory workers ... http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1559 Don’t normally gratuitously post graphics (there’s too much pretty stuff in the world). But here are a couple of particularly amazing bits of work- one from Artist and Illustrator Anne Harild who made these collages about the modernist housing estate Bryant Court in Hackney from photos of the area. I ... http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1553 http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1551 Moving house double bike- I think there is a real place for proper cargo bikes like this in ‘The New World’ (which I’m working on creating) I love the idea that the modern family still has a garage where the car is replaced by one of these. http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1548 I think it’s interesting how Puma are advertising their product now. And as I had this queued up to blog I came across these other trainer adverts, trying to push their products in a similar ‘not-so-sporty’ way. These trainers have built in foursquare- geotagging trainers- orwellian or brilliant? http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1545 but heres some things i did today. My camera worked long enough to delete every other photo - which is why i havent taken any photos for so long.Maybe i will try to start documenting again. Guess this is on hold till my L293’s arrive. Heres a whole load of stuff on ... http://tom.stoopdice.com/blog/?p=889 http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1529 This is a machine which as far as I can tell- has a story loaded on it and then takes keywords and compares those to keywords in patents in the US patents office- it finds the images associated with the words and then draws them- a drawing for every word. ... http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1525 Little bit late but here it is. Went to the RCA in short- was surprisingly disappointed with the Interactions work- I think now that most people can use an arduino a bit and appreciate that electronics and stuff isn’t as hard as it used to be, the magic has left ... http://moth.stoopdice.com/?p=1519