Aaron Koblin :
Flight Patterns: LINK
House of Cards
Links:
Aaron Koblin
the making of "house of cards"
Friday, August 27, 2010
Aaron Koblin: Data visualization artist
Aaron Koblin :
Flight Patterns: LINK
House of Cards
Links:
Aaron Koblin
the making of "house of cards"
Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
(http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html)
New collective way of approaching interdisciplinary works of architecture?
Questions:
How can a computer programmer / medical student / law student / chemist / biologist / physicist aid or contribute to an architect in articulating formal moves, architecture, space, etc etc...
I, Pencil
I, Pencil by Leonard E. Reed (dec. 1958)
I am a lead pencil--the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery -- more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me -- no, that's too much to ask of anyone -- if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because -- well, because I am seemingly so simple.
Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year.
Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye -- there's some wood, lacquer. the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.
I am a lead pencil--the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery -- more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me -- no, that's too much to ask of anyone -- if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because -- well, because I am seemingly so simple.
Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year.
Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye -- there's some wood, lacquer. the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.
Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories
(http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html)
Jonathan Harris @ number27
he quotes "how we relate to our machines and to each other"
Currently on my mind.
Think about how a collective / collaboration of technology and parametric computing and this new role that architects now play as data managers and inform new architecture that might resembles a form of meta organism that shapes and evolves with a collection of data and information and in return transcribes into a new reality. A form or space / environment; "architecture" Trying to really push the ideology of our current species capabilities, which goes beyond our individual capacity. I've heard this phrase before, "that no one person now knows or have the ability to make a pencil" no one person "can aquire the wood, lacquer, printed labeling, and graphite need to composed a pencil."
We have acquire the ability to DO beyond our capacities. This is he evolution of man and the evolution of man understanding space.
Attempt:
To push parametric into a realm where its more than a command and an output but a systematic, interconnection, communication, and collective server of data and commands and relational formulas.
- crowd sourcing ?
- accelerated design ?
- a constant never ending loop within a shift of ideas information and spacial context "gestalt - shift"
- imaging "storm front" that our world is a moving storm. the approach of the storm is upon the horizon.
- as architects we infuses our self into a position where we digest and collect information / data / culture / etc.. from this storm as we use our specialty to comprehend and produce architecture.
Lexicon_06: Peter Sloterdijk
Peter Sloterdijk: "Air / Condition"
weather (topic-based)
1. of or pertaining to an atmospheric state 2. a collision of natural forces
psychoactive (descriptive / active)
1. of or pertaining to a substance having a profound or significanteffect on mental processes
weather (topic-based)
1. of or pertaining to an atmospheric state 2. a collision of natural forces
psychoactive (descriptive / active)
1. of or pertaining to a substance having a profound or significanteffect on mental processes
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Lexicon_04: Mark Wigley
Mark Wigley: "Recycling Recycling"
"like bodies, can be prosthetically transformed and dispersed. Inside the ever larger, interconnected, and entangled network that envelops the planet are layers of concepts that evolve and interact continuously like the weather. It is in this intricate play between organic processes, economies, technologies, and concepts tat the nuances of McHale's understanding of ecology lies."
Lexicon_03: Keller Easterling
(http://www.berilguvendik.com/images/portfolio/hani_4_med.jpg)
Lexicon_01: Robert Smithson
(http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/images/media/doc/a9e/1242319091-large.jpg)
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