Mobile phones

QR Custom Ridez.

Beginning to look into custom QR code design, and found a lot of pretty interesting stuff around.  Going to be creating some codes and playing around in Gimp to see how much I can get away with, seeing as there seems to be a fairly huge error correction built into them (around 30%) so hopefully … Continue reading →

The Future

A glancing explanation

So, I keep bumping into friends who I assume have suffered countless tedious explanations of my project and all its tousled aims.  Well that turns out not to be true.  At all.   Some of my closest friends are hazily aware of one aspect of what I am doing, others seem surprised when I mention … Continue reading →

Hotspots

A friend and I were chatting the other day about ideas of private/public space/personal space when I mentioned Hakim Bey’s notion of TAZs (Temporary Autonomous Zones), and other similar anarchist ideals – pirate utopias – zones of independent activity that exist for short periods of time as temporary alternatives to the mainstream, where their brevity … Continue reading →

Alienation/Architecture

What I find most appealing about the darker, perhaps more abstract fringes of dubstep (in particular the fantastic Burial) is the use of radically different – or at least oppositional – temporal modes that skewer our senses of pacing and pulse.  The sombre atmospherics, ambience, noise, and barely perceptible vocal samples which suggest the slow-burning … Continue reading →