Came across this story a few days ago and it made me think of what Stewart Brand’s been saying for a while now…. “given access to the information we need - humanity can make the world a better place.” In “Whole Earth Discipline” he also makes a counterintuitive case for why booming slums and squatter [...]
Ah, there… Steaming dark-roast in cup (Starbucks’ Verona, if you’re curious), let’s catch up…
You see, for the past few weeks, I’ve been scratching my head, trying to figure out how to create a multi-layered frame-in-frame look for a single Flash file. Most recently, Daily Planet host and Discovery Interactive’s resident expert, Jay Ingram, cooly [...]
Now you don’t have a reason not to have seen this doc:
An excellent CBC doc that talks about how plastics and chemicals are affecting male reproductive health…Must see:
OR you can watch this and other great docs on CBC.ca’s player, at:
CBC Documentaries Player
Simone Jones, Dean of Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design, mentioned her colleague Julian Oliver’s neat creation during an interview we did for DiscoveryChannel.ca. I love the idea.
It plays into ideas of Augmented Architecture and Augmented Reality - concepts that deal with altering your reality, rather than providing you with [...]
Yesterday I chanced on an amazing show on Discovery called Next World: Future Life on Earth (think Beyond 2000, from a beyond-2000 perspective) and caught a segment about Transported Presence.
The idea is that our video and audio projections will be so high in quality, we wouldn’t physically need to travel anywhere; the mere projection of [...]
