metablog

BugLabs shows off its impressive prototype. This is a modular physical device. Meaning if you want it to be a PDA, gaming device, or video recorder, you simply change the physical configurations.

Definitely worth watching the first few minutes…

I think this is a nice approach for “the consumer’s desires for an all-in-one device.” Let the buyer build, and innovators innovate.

For more, visit BugLabs.net

[seen via A VC]

… in one quarter.

Some countries don’t MAKE $39 billion. How can a company LOSE $39 billion?

Read the article here

GM Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said he knew the charge would be difficult to comprehend for some (like 95% of the world). Especially considering some people will never see this kind of money in their lifetime. Or their children’s children lifetime.

“I think you’d have to have a Ph.D. in accounting to understand it,” Wagoner said during an interview on “The Paul W. Smith Show” on WJR-AM.

The most surprising thing about the whole thing is Rick’s reaction. Apparently, he doesn’t really care, and neither should we. “It doesn’t have any impact at all,” he said. “I would encourage people not to overreact in a negative way to it.”

When you’re the GM of GM, I guess $39 billion is nothing to lose sleep over.

A projection system for the show “Losing Something” creates virtual characters onstage, like the “older self” for the actor Aldo Perez. The show is being put on by 3 legged dog (3LD). It’s playing at 80 Greenwich St until May 5th.

The NYTimes has a real interesting article on the entire project, along with Eyeliner’s technology.

Seen on Archive.org – Who knew one-way communication would be desirable?

For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”.

Here is a SAMPLE MP3:
[audio:http://www.archive.org/download/ird059/tcp_d1_01_the_swedish_rhapsody_irdial.mp3]

Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers.

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Bill Morrison’s Decasia
http://www.decasia.com/clip1.html
Bill Morrison is not the first artist to take decomposing film stock as raw material, but he plunges into this dark nitrate of the soul with contagious abandon. Founded on the tension between the hard fact of film’s stained, eroded, unstable surface and the fragile nature of that which was once photographically represented, Decasia is an avant-garde movie with universal appeal, as well as an apocalyptic subtext unavoidably tied to the catastrophe of 9-11

and…
Ten:
Abbas Kiarostami’s most form-minded experiment since his hall-of-mirrors staged doc Close-Up is another small triumph for DV. Truly operating in the gap between fiction and documentary, Ten is a superb conceptual adventure, establishing the director as one of the few filmmakers since Andy Warhol to rethink the nature of on-screen acting.
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0352,top10,49740,1.html

A Book with NO Information
http://wps.com/projects/million/index.html

Just Noticeable Difference – Weber’s Law
http://www.usd.edu/psyc301/WebersLaw.htm

Some unformed thoughts:
Our minds are more digital than analog

??? What bridges digital & analog ???
what is the meeting point of analog + digital

this question supposes :
there is a bridge
the dialogue of analog + digital is not sufficient – it’s a digital binary – analog or digital

JND – difference limen or the differential threshold.
the smallest difference in a specified modality of sensory input that is detectable by a human being or other animal
The Difference Threshold (or “Just Noticeable Difference”) is the minimum amount by which stimulus intensity must be changed in order to produce a noticeable variation in sensory experience
Each observer has their own difference threshold.

Perhaps quantum theory provides the framework for vocabulary – non-continuous –
collocation, superposition, entaglement(instant connectivity)
quantum leap – the leap of faith
The Observer (Heisenberg uncertainty principle)

My old project:
http://www.jakilevy.com/blog/?cat=5

like audio casette tapes and other analog technology, the VCR is on its way out._with the rise of DVR’s (digital video recorders) DVD’s , and other digital technology, the VCR is now a quaint thing of the past – like Vinyl Records, VHS tapes are now acquiring a nostalgic status.

GOAL: Reveal the “narrative” of the tape. Highlite its path and let the user see its path – do not obscure its path with wires.

In the image of the creator….
We create digital, non-linear matter because we are non-linear beings
Our minds work in associative flashes.

Research
Culture of Time + Space -
Ulysses – James Joyce

techno-mysticism & Pseudo-spirituality
Princeton’s Random Number Generator
EVP
Dr. Emoto – http://www.hado.net/ . http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html

Experience of Present v. Memory of Past

In the realm of digital-analog divide, perhaps the meeting point is in physical space:
In the work of 1:1 maps
Augmented spaces – lev manovich
RFID – as nodes – synched up to virtual network…
Tagging physical space