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6 Microlog entries tagged with ‘cityofsound’
Tetsuo Kondo’s suspended ramp, Tallinn
Says its creator: “In the elegant woods of Kadriorg, we added a path. The path is supported by the trees as it floats through a forest that is over 300 years old. I feel that the appearance of the woods changes slightly when you walk along this path. We are no longer looking up at the trees from the ground but we come closer to the leaves and glide through the branches.” When do we get one? Permalink ·
Binge watching contemporary TV
Dan Hill five years ago, being very prescient. Binge watching, timeshifting, whatever you call it — between the DVR and box sets, it’s 90% of our home viewing now. Permalink ·
Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why it’s easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system)
Another epic post from Dan Hill, this time on the concept of the ‘smart city’, relaying real-time metrics of the city to its inhabitants through various means, as well as the problems inherent on a municipal level with that kind of big thinking. Permalink ·
Notes on New Songdo City
Another epic post from City of Sound, this time on one of the Far East’s latest ‘instant cities’. It’s incredible really, as if someone’s literally playing Sim City with the landscape there (cf. Blog All Bookmarked Web Pages: Shanghai Diary). Also: I never realised China, South Korea and Japan were in such close proximity as to make a bridge between them a realistic engineering challenge. Please make that happen. Permalink ·
New Musical Experiences
Thoughts from Dan Hill on how we discover and listen to music, and the problems that new technology has brought to the table. He’s spot on about metadata and context; even five years on the situation remains mostly the same. (Maybe because most people don’t care about these things?) Permalink ·
New papers: the San Francisco Panorama etcetera
Haven’t yet opened my own copy of the Panorama. Yet no matter how good it is as a product in and of itself, if it’s a prototype for what a daily newspaper should be it was ill-conceived from the start: there is simply no way that amount of effort, that amount of variety, can go into a daily publication. It’s a pipe dream. Now as a weekend paper, that’s a different matter. Permalink ·
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