flight assembled architecture
The ↑ETH Zurich‘s project ↑Flying Machine Enabled Construction … absolutely creepy :)
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
true skin
ZLOTESCU, STEPHAN. 2012. True skin [short film]. ?????: N1ON. via ↑entry at ↑kueperpunk
Continue reading →why technologies fail
Boingboing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker has written a fine column for the New York Times Magazine called ‘↑Why your car isn’t electric,’ investigating the question ↑why some technologies fail, and others succeed. For a deeper understanding of the matter at hand and … Continue reading →
low poly mask
Stephen ‘kongorilla’ Kongsle designed this wearable cardboard mask and has put ↑all you need for it online under a creative commons licence. When I first saw it I immediately had three associations: 1) A ↑Bizarro t-shirt would go perfectly with … Continue reading →
the flash inspirations
This is the King Features ‘↑Flash Gordon‘ Sunday strip by ↑Alex Raymond as it was published on 23 June 1940. We see Gordon [whose adventures began on 07 January 1934] disguised as a ‘Power-Man’ [‘the experts on whom Mongo’s electrified … Continue reading →
what is that?
zeph’s pop culture quiz #45 What is the large mechanical contraption in the picture everybody is staring at? In which movie does it appear and what does it do within the plot of that movie? Just leave a … Continue reading →
games with defects
While attending the ↑Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (↑GFF), at the University of Zurich I got to know ↑René Bauer, a game designer who teaches at the Hochschule der Künste in Zürich (↑ZHdK). He showed us quite … Continue reading →
plurality
LIU, DENNIS. 2012. ↓Plurality [short film]. New York: Traffik Filmworks. via ↑kueperpunk—tnx
Continue reading →archæology of steampunk
Just a minute ago I pre-ordered ‘Steampunk: kurz & geek’ (Jahnke & Rauchfuß 2012) after I had read ↑Kueperpunk’s review (he has a reviewer’s copy). It reminded me of Ekaterina Sedia’s introduction (Sedia 2012) in ‘The Mammoth Book of Steampunk’ … Continue reading →
technology, society, and the scope of anthropology
The ↓next biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association (↑GAA) will take place exactly one year from today, from 2nd to 5th October 2013, in Mainz, Germany. I am organizing a workshop there, called ‘Technology, society, and the scope of … Continue reading →