http://www.singsign.com/blog random rants, ideas and whatnot Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Great talk by Gillian Crampton-Smith (read another great interview here) - what is design research, when is design research and such matters are beautifully dealt with in her talk at Innovationsforum Gillian Crampton-Smith // Convivio // IUAV from Innovationsforum on Vimeo. http://www.singsign.com/blog/crampton-smith-on-design-research/ Our new album is reviewed in the May issue of WIRE. An excerpt: “Immaculately designed, with a modernist cool that still has room for the fallibly human, putting on Avellaneda is the sonic equivalent of the room suddenly acquiring a classic Arne Jacobsen chair; perhaps the model 1307 that broke ... http://www.singsign.com/blog/wire-review-of-avellaneda/ The Mars Desert Research Station project is fascinating in all its enthusiastic, slightly nerdy, and energetic frenzy to find out what it would mean to live on Mars. Now, they have also had a socalled FLAME (family living analysis on Mars) team out in the Utah desert for some research ... http://www.singsign.com/blog/human-factors-on-mars/ Finally, after FOUR YEARS my new album with Skyphone is out on Rune Grammofon on February 25. Rune writes: Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang. Musically it´s possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and Swedish ... http://www.singsign.com/blog/avellaneda/ Bill Buxton gives a brief history of multitouch interaction. I find it interesting to see the amount of reuse taking place, the way, for instance, the 1992 Simon shares a lot of stuff with the iPhone… http://www.singsign.com/blog/multitouch/ In 1986 Frank Zappa discusses obcenity and censorship on CNN’s crossfire. What an educated man, he’s hugely missed! http://www.singsign.com/blog/frank-on-crossfire/ http://www.singsign.com/blog/the-defence/ | View | Upload your own http://www.singsign.com/blog/defence-slides/ Thursday, I defended my thesis on “Trust Within Technology: Risk, Existential Trust, and Reflective Designs in Human-Computer Interaction”…the doctor is in the house! Find the abstract here... bliss… http://www.singsign.com/blog/done/ ‘Pataphysics, a term coined by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873 – 1907), is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. It is a parody of the theory and methods of modern science and is often expressed in nonsensical language. A practitioner of ‘pataphysics is a ... http://www.singsign.com/blog/todays-word-pataphysics/