March 2013
2 posts
February 2013
1 post
“Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be...
December 2012
1 post
July 2012
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
REBEL ALLIANCE
When
Wednesdays 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Nov and 7, 14, 23 Dec 2011 from 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UPDATE (4 Jan 2011): Now continuing this every Wednesday until Easter at least.
Where
Unit 6, Level 6 South
New England House
Brighton
BN1 4GH
What is it?
I’ve mentioned this around to a few of you.
But have been hesitant to commit to anything until the big table I’ve ordered...
“Loops starts from a new place. We see young people, not as a costly group at risk of negative experiences, to be protected, but rather as a potential resource, for each other, the wider community and society.” Did some work with Participle (the service design practice behind Loops) earlier this year. The thing that echoes around my head is they focus on capabilities over needs as a...
August 2011
2 posts
May 2011
4 posts
WatchDoor “We made it so if you check in to Apartm.net on Foursquare the door unlocks. Well, not you. Us. So you can’t steal our stuff. We did it with Foursquare’s Alpha 2.0 API, a local push notification service, an industrial web-enabled relay device, some speaker wire, and knowing about electricity.”
November 2010
3 posts
Paul Thek “Teaching Notes: 4-Dimensional Design”
October 2010
2 posts
Look around you.
August 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
“You don’t get people who walk into a board meeting and go ‘I genuinely don’t give a fuck.’ And people who genuinely don’t give a fuck can generally get what they want. Because they’re prepared to lose. The men in suits go, ‘Oh, I see what you’re doing.’ But they don’t fucking see what you’re doing. ‘You’re going for a bigger percentage.’ Because I don’t give a shit about money, I am coming at it...
March 2010
7 posts
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBlock
took place at 7 locations in SF, including IDEO, socialtext offices, in 2007.
organisations opening up offices.
could be neat if it was landlords opening up empty spaces.
unsure if it’s the only distributed, city-wide barcamp there’s been, but the pictures http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampblock/interesting/ look way more enticing than other barcamps. ...
http://brainfood.howies.co.uk/2009/01/what-do-you-do-can-we-help-you-do-it-better/ good question
Watchhttp://www.wk.com/wke/show/dont_move_here inside portland’s music scene (indirectly via @iaintait who is going to move there)
The City Is Here For You To Use: (very) provisional bibliography
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
5 posts
turn off your tv leave your house know your neighbours greet people look up when you’re walking sit on your stoop plant flowers use your library play together buy from local merchants share what you have help a lost dog take children to the park honour elders support neighbourhood schools fix it even if you didn’t break it have pot lucks garden together pick up litter read stories aloud dance in...
