…and that’s what the Internet is, too. It’s a place where we can be alone together — and this is precisely what gives it power. … Our offices should encourage casual, cafe-style interactions, but allow people to disappear into personalized, private spaces when they want to be alone.
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The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
(As Timoni said “a very reassuring article for anybody who works better alone, or uninterrupted.”)
Playing with Pigs: Pig Chase (by Utrecht School of the Arts)
“This game, “Pig Chase,” was developed by a team from the Utrecht School of the Arts and Wageningen University. In the concept video above, a human controls a ball of light on a wall in the pigpen. If a pig nuzzles the light, the ball changes colors. The human and pig must work in sync to maneuver the ball over to the goal, where the team is rewarded with a display of fireworks.” - io9 (via Jane McGonigal)
Astronomer Merges Meteorite With Red Wine To Give It a 4.5 Billion Year-Old Vintage
“Astronomer Ian Hutcheon combined his passions for space and wine making to create a Cabernet Sauvignon with a 4.5 billion-year-old vintage. How the hell did he do that? Hutcheon aged the red wine with a 3″ wide meteorite formed during the birth of the solar system, and which crashed into the Atacama Desert in northern Chile about 6,000 years ago.
Hutcheon claims the meteorite gives his wine a “livelier taste”, while also providing “everybody the opportunity to touch something from space”. So far he has produced 2,200 gallons of the wine at his vineyard.”
/thx Bipana
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/starting_over/
“In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.” “
Design by Jonathan Haggard. An inspiration for my upcoming talk at Interaction12 on hacking space exploration and science. - Ariel Waldman
“Emily Kane has created a conceptual space advocacy group called Project Moon which explores the relationship between space industry and graphic design. The project renders a new visual aesthetic for contemporary manned space exploration. While nodding to the aesthetic and humanistic contributions to the pursuit of space, she lays out the ambiguity of the terrain ahead. The design, detailed in a palette of black, red, and periwinkle, paints out the major contributions of the past and of areas still to be further explored.
Seeing Emily’s work made me begin obsessively considering/scheming what the aesthetic of space exploration will look like in the near future. 2011 was a pretty monumental year for space: the Shuttle era ended, the International Space Station was officially completed, Earth-like planets were uncovered, commercial space exploration took huge strides and the true stellar standout – 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of human space flight. Future of space exploration is undefined and new aesthetic of space exploration is needed.
During the 1970’s and 80’s, NASA used a red logotype nicknamed the “worm”. Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn created in their words, “a more useful new logotype” as part of the National Endowment of the Arts. It was an effort to design a more modern logo for a space agency that’s forward thinking. Then the Challenger accident happened and the agency was put on hold. In the early 90′s, administrator Daniel Goldin brought back the traditional NASA blue “meatball” with its red chevron and spattering of star in an attempt to herald back to the golden age of space exploration.
Soon manned space travel will not be limited to decorated patriots in uniform flight suits, commercial space exploration is charting new ground, including the aesthetic design of space. Virgin Galatic’s Spaceport America opened this past year; I can’t wait to see what Sir Richard Branson has up his sleeves.
Alana”
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
