Ben O’Steen shares his fascination with what happens to information and content as we move it from the digital world to the physical and back again.
Naturally, this derailed my entire morning.
Running Cory Doctorow’s Makers through Tom Taylor’s Microprinter:
Using the microprinter and the Guardian’s data on MP expenses to print out all the MP’s receipts, with QRCodes linking back to the original data:
Printing information out like this seems to be an interesting way to visualise and perhaps understand any type of activity stream.
I won’t reproduce the whole thing here; instead, I urge you to read it yourself.
Finally, Ben announced TextCamp.
A day spent learning and playing with (electronic) texts, manuscript images, letters of correspondence, memoirs, and paper goods.
It’s supposed to be in September, in the UK. I wonder if I’d be able to make it…
(Via Infovore.)
It might just look like rows of colourful folders – but this office cabinet provides at-a-glance understanding of the money flows through this dentists office.
Glance-able information as a side effect of physical data storage.
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Amy Hoy says, Don’t listen to Le Corbusier–or Jakob Nielsen:
Architecture is not just a way to house bodies and fulfill function, but to feel.
Software is no different.
My friend Anselm received a book laser-etched on bamboo:
A student of mine from China gave me this handsome box today. It proved to contain a bamboo book — of a style common in China before the 2nd century BC invention of mulberry leaf paper. On each stave of the book is a verse from the 36 Stratagems, a traditional volume of military/diplomatic maxims and explanations. Traditionally, an orally transmitted example went along with each verse; nowadays examples are as likely to come from World War II and the Long March as from classical Chinese history.
Naturally, he’s making his own now.
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