When plans for The Shard were unveiled my first thoughts were that its piercing aesthetic would be too harsh for the London skyline. But now it’s been ‘topped out’ and soon to open to the public, it’s time to get used to it. I heard somewhere that Irvine Sellar, the property magnate behind the tower, intends for […]
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Towards a Cyberpunk Sky
Posted in Design
Also tagged creation, cyberpunk, future, Irvine Sellar, london, open, perspective, the shard, time, video, vimeo, watch
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Midnight Magic: Beam Me Up
Father Xmas brought me a Sonos S5, which has been duly blasting out the grooves ever since. But there’s one track that’s had more airplay than any other in the last couple of weeks, Midnight Magic’s ‘Beam Me Up’, a superb piece of modern disco that I just had to share: You gotta love that […]
Posted in Music
Also tagged christmas, Jaques Renault, love, Midnight Magic, Music, remix, single, sonos, track, xmas
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Lee Broom’s Neon Furniture
I stumbled into /r/cyberpunk the other day, where I came across the work of a chap called Lee Broom, a British interior and product designer who has won recent acclaim for his work at Westfield Stratford and The Nightjar. His stuff is traditional with a very modern twist: think 19th century meets TRON. Yeah, pretty awesome. My favorite […]
Constructing A Methodology
Mobile AR is still highly prototypical, and has not received much previous academic attention thus far. A deep analysis of this technology and its implications requires a specially developed methodology, a methodology which acknowledges the pre-release status of the technology, and recognises that Mobile AR represents a fusion of a number of different media technologies. […]
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Also tagged Academic, critical media, Culture, development, digital, emergence, emergent, Gaming, geo, gum, idea, industry, innovation, interaction, interactive, interesting, life, light, marketing, mcluhan, Media, medium, methodology, Mobile, nature, net, network, new, peak, perspective, plan, play, problem, reference, research, social, social interaction, society, story, tag, technology, theory, time, view, Web, writing
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Mobile Telephone
The Internet and the mobile phone are two mighty forces that have bent contemporary culture and remade it in their form. They offer immediacy, connectivity, and social interaction of a wholly different kind. These are technologies that have brought profound changes to the ways academia consider technoscience and digital communication. Their relationship was of interest […]