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Twitter UK presents #Flock

mothercolours — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:23:03 +0530

Twitter UK presents #Flock

Eidos consists of two pieces of experimental equipment that let...

mothercolours — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:04:20 +0530

Eidos consists of two pieces of experimental equipment that let you fine-tune your sight and hearing.

Eidos Vision enhances the way we see motion, while Eidos Audio lets us hear speech more selectively.

Eidos has broad application in areas where live audio and video analysis is valuable. For example, sportspeople can visualise and improve technique in real time. Eidos also has healthcare benefits where it can be used to boost or refine sensory signals weakened by ageing or disability. In the arts, Eidos can augment live performance such as ballet, fashion or music concerts. It allows us to highlight previously invisible or inaudible details, opening up new and customisable experiences.

Things Come Apart

mothercolours — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:24:18 +0530

Things Come Apart

Natuarally occuring cultural districts

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:17:55 +0530

In our utopia, cultural and economic diversity–a primary feature of NOCDs–is recognized as an underlying strength of New York City. Cultural expression is acknowledged as integral to individual, family and community well-being. Community-based assets are recognized for the value they add to neighborhoods and to the economic sustainability, civic participation, and diverse social fabric of the city as a whole. Local leadership is valued, with community members, including artists and cultural leaders, as active participants in decision-making.

New York has many nascent creative economies and cultural districts. It is our vision that these assets are nurtured to grow in ways that transform our city, strengthening local economies, creating jobs, building locally sustainable and diverse communities and enriching the quality of our lives. When fully realized, we witness a city comprised of equitable, sustainable and culturally rich communities for all residents, which are both distinct and connected.

"The Greatest Show on Earth: a thinking mind."

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:13:46 +0530

“The Greatest Show on Earth: a thinking mind.”

- Daniel Gonzales

"Visual storytelling is not new. It’s been used since humans started depicting images in caves...."

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:10:25 +0530

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Visual storytelling is not new. It’s been used since humans started depicting images in caves. Today, it is ingrained in art you see everywhere. From childhood fairytales to Oscar-Winning films, from your favorite Superbowl Ads to friend’s Instagram photos, and from business models and pitches to every website landing page… Someone is trying express themselves and tell a story through visuals.

Although it’s not a new form of communication, it has been one of the most effective ones at getting points and feelings across to any audience quickly and accurately. Daniel has been practicing and perfecting this skill since I met him in middle school, and now he can’t wait to share his best tips and advice with you.

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- Jayrell Ringpis, Skillshare Eduaction Producer

Roadtrippers is a simple and intuitive road trip planner that...

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:08:32 +0530

Roadtrippers is a simple and intuitive road trip planner that helps you discover, plan and book the best places and experiences along your way, curated by local experts and travel writers.
Eccentric roadside attractions, breathtaking natural wonders, or mouthwatering foodie feasts. Whatever your interests, you’ll discover your America on Roadtrippers.

Maps of Time: Data As Narrative

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:05:00 +0530

What’s the relationship between visualized data and the story we want to tell? Living in the eternal now, surrounded by our tweets, facebook posts and other copious amounts of social and highly personalized information, we forget the importance of history and historical reasoning and influence in our work. Which events were the most important in my last year or decade of tweets? How would I know? What would a map of time look like, fashioned out of the data? How would one map one’s own life? In this panel, a mix of academics, news media professionals and narrative tool developers talk about how to turn data into maps of time. Together we will go on a journey to understand and visualize time, history and context, to reason about what it means to gather and express collective history.

Visualization of Javascript’s Grammar

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:02:28 +0530

Visualization of Javascript’s Grammar

Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy...

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:57:57 +0530

Welcome to the world of Banished! In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland.

The objective of the game is to keep the population alive and grow it into a successful culture. Options for feeding the people include hunting and gathering, agriculture, trade, and fishing. However, sustainable practices must be considered to survive in the long term.

“A Turing machine is a device that manipulates symbols on...

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:48:17 +0530

“A Turing machine is a device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer.”

Unlike what the name suggests, it is not a physical machine but rather a theoretical model. It’s very simply, but describes the fundamental capabilities of practically all computers in use today. This means that if something can be done on a computer, it can also be done on a Turing machine. This makes it a great model for scientists to use to discover the limits of computers (e.g. complexity theory) and also to show to a broad audience how a computer fundamentally operates.

World Wide Web

mothercolours — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:10:00 +0530

World Wide Web:

The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups. Originally aimed at the High Energy Physics community, it has spread to other areas and attracted much interest in user support, resource discovery and collaborative work areas.

thekhooll: 1512 - 2013

mothercolours — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:29:16 +0530

thekhooll:

1512 - 2013

Public Preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for...

mothercolours — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:40:31 +0530

Public Preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for Excel

Salman Rushdie on Novel Writing

mothercolours — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:46:40 +0530

Salman Rushdie on Novel Writing

KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS – AN INTERNAL MODEL Since the founding of...

mothercolours — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:30:36 +0530

KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS – AN INTERNAL MODEL
Since the founding of the practice, UNStudio has been developing knowledge as a result of combining the design and building of projects with an active participation in architectural theory. Following on a continued interest in geometry, digital production, material effects and attainable design solutions, this communal knowledge led to the introduction of four distinct Knowledge Platforms to the studio. Whilst the primary objective of our project teams is to deliver the ‘result’ of architectural thinking (buildings, plans, designs), the objective of the Knowledge Platforms is to distill knowledge from within the practice of architecture in order to propel design thinking and innovation.

ryanpanos: Anatomy of a Chinese City via Archdaily In cities...

mothercolours — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:38:05 +0530

ryanpanos:

Anatomy of a Chinese City via Archdaily

In cities around the globe, change happens almost instantly. Buildings rise, buildings disappear, and skylines morph before one’s eyes. There is no better example of this, of course, than China. From Ordos to Shanghai, Chinese cities are in a constant state of flux, as the Chinese people willfully abandon signs of the past and embrace the new.

Of course, it’s one thing to know this fact; it’s quite another to witness it firsthand, to experience this urgent impetus to demolish and demolish in order to build, build, build, and build. In the face of such large-scale, exponential urban development, it’s easy to feel powerless to suggest another path.

However, in publishing Anatomy of a Chinese City, that is exactly what two young architects have done. By taking the time to observe the “urban artifacts” that make a Chinese city unique, compiling over 100 drawings of everything from buildings to bicycles, Thomas Batzenschlager and Clémence Pybaro have preserved a piece of Chinese history that is quickly going extinct.

In a world where, in the race for progress, quotidian realities are erased unthinkingly, Anatomy of a Chinese City is not just a resource, but a call-to-action, reminding us to slow down and observe the very human context that surrounds us.

Books Are Friends That Never Leave

mothercolours — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:16:05 +0530

Books Are Friends That Never Leave

Sturla Gunnarsson’s ‘Such A Long Journey’...

mothercolours — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:45:18 +0530

Sturla Gunnarsson’s ‘Such A Long Journey’ 1998

Circa 1971, Gustad Noble lives in a one bedroom hall rented apartment in Byculla, Bombay. He travels to work everyday by Central Railway to Victoria Terminus and walks to Flora Fountain to his place of employment, namely the Central Bank of India. He has three children, Sohrab - who has finished his college studies and is now being admitted, much to his dislike, to Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.); while Darius, his second son, and daughter, Roshan, are school-going; his wife, Dilnavaz, looks after the children and the household. Their neighborhood is filthy, people urinate and defecate near the wall which encloses their building. Gustad asks a pavement artist to move near his building, draw pictures of religious Gods and Goddesses depicting the four main religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism. The Artist agrees, and soon the place is transformed into a huge temple where people of all religions come to pay their respects. It is only a handful of people who know that Gustad is involved with a rebel RAW Agent, Major Jimmy Billimoria, who is actively involved with an extremist organization in East Pakistan, Awami League, aiding them financially and with manpower to overcome the Pakistani Government. The question remains what will Gustad’s plight be when the news gets out of his involvement in this activity, especially when he receives 10 lakh rupees to be deposited in small installments in his Bank, in the midst of sentiments running high, war being declared between Pakistan and India, emergency blackout conditions and air raid sirens.

Geo/graphy: the story of place

mothercolours — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:03:25 +0530

by Meaghen Brown

Ok, here’s a question: what exactly is Geography?

I’m sure you probably studied some version of it in primary school; memorized names on a map, and maybe, if you were lucky, learned how a compass works. Some of you might have even thought I was asking about Geology, but no. That’s rocks. I’m talking about Geography which Webster’s somewhat ambiguously defines as, “a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth’s surface,” and the Greeks called γεωγραφία. But Geography isn’t really a science, or an art, or even quite a subject, so much as a way of telling the story of a place. Michael Ondaatje once wrote that, “We die, containing the richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.” He goes on, wishing for these things to be marked on his body when he is gone. Believing in such cartography- marked by nature, not just labeled on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings, but as “communal histories and communal books. Not owned or monogamous in our taste and experience.” This definition understands Geography as a discipline of questions and answers and meditations and nostalgia. It seeks to explain why we fight, and fall in love, and look for oil in the grasslands of the midwest, and why we build cities next to oceans. This Geography knows why spiders were the first species to return to Krakataua, and why the smell of baking bread reminds us of home, and why some people will never leave New York. John Steinbeck knew this. Steinbeck, who spoke of Monterey’s Cannery Row as “a poem, stink, a grating noise, a quality of light…” So did John McPhee, when he wrote in Annals of a Former World, “When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” And Here is New York, that timeless ode to the streets of Manhattan by the perspicacious E.B. White? “It carries on its lapel the unexpungeable odor of the long past, so no matter where you sit in New York, you feel the vibrations of great times and tall deeds, of queer people and events and undertakings.” That too is Geography. There are geographies of emotion, and geographies of people, and geographies of time. But in the end, everything comes back to a point on a map.

Because that’s what it means, after all. “Geo—graphy” - Writing the earth. The story of place.

Welcome to your first lesson.