Real Time Rome is an MIT SENSEable City project which uses aggregated data from mobile phones, buses and taxis in Rome to give real visualisations of the dynamics of the city. Curently on show at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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After a five year gap Sparklehorse are back with a new album Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain and they’re touring with dates in Dublin on the 14th & 15th of October. It’s great to see to him back and healthy the last time I saw him in 2002 I wondered if I’d ever see him again.
Never heard of Sparklehorse? Download the live Radio France Black Session from September 25th 2006
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I see from signal vs noise that HP are offering a slimming effect (ie they stretch the image)in their latest digital cameras, weird but hardly surprising.Most photo processors here add a tanning effect colour adjustment during the summer months to keep the punters happy, I wonder will they now take it on themselves to slim the nation as well?
This is my car’s registration plate the one on the left which some loser coloured in the centre of the 0 failed the NCT (National car test), the one on the right with white centered 0 passed. You’ve got to wonder what genius thinks this stuff up.
Tonight is Culture Night in Dublin where museums and galleries and cultural institutions stay open until 9pm (some ’till 10).It’s a great idea and I welcome it as such but the execution is so disappointing. 9pm is late night shopping, the Tate opens till 10pm every Friday and Saturday so it’s hard to get excited about opening an extra 3 hours once a year. Culture Night is based on La Nuit Blanche in Paris which is a 7pm – 7am night of inspired mayhem which takes over the city. While I accept that you’ve got to start small it would seem to me to that midnight should be the starting point. Still go out and support it, maybe next year…
I saw Michel Gondry’s brilliant (his best yet and Gael Garc
I was at the launch of newest Irish literary sensation Mia Gallagher’s first novel Hellfire last evening. Hellfire is the big autumn Irish book from Penguin Ireland, the weekend papers were full of reviews and interviews, and you can’t miss it in all the bookshops. It’s great to see books of this calibre get the attention they deserve. IMO this is a major new Irish literary voice and Hellfire is an important novel about where Dublin is now that everyone should read. Recommended.
Make your own fallout shelter.
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Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. It also has lots of very cool projects and is well worth checking out.
When you’re younger: Do More. Think Less.
When you’re older: Do Less. Think More.
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WalkSpace for the iPhone is an alternative walking app to let you navigate the city in a new and unexpected way.
