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May 04, 2004
flaneury
Yes, I'm behind too. Not exactly a mental block, but a post I've wanted to write that would not be written. So I'm distracting myself with a few photos from my recent soujourns. I've been lucky enough to have some wandering time in 5 cities (hey, there was work in between, honest).
I've recently given a couple of talks - a quick braindump at a locative media workshop in Manchester (provocatively titled 'the forgotten role of humans in collaborative cartography' , which ended up being more about the non-code issues facing such projects), and a talk at the risome conference about intangibility, which I really really will manage to write up soon.
I'm working slowly through Malcolm McCullough's Digital Ground, a book I've been waiting for since September 2002, when I saw McCullough talk at Doors of Perception. I'm only 50 pages in, but I already think this is my next big influential book, after Norman's The Invisible Computer. It's about people's relation to space and place, and how this is affected by the digital and invisible. If you're at all interested in maps, place, or interaction design, you need this book. You'll find yourself underlining things and scrawling in the margin "yes! oh god YES!". He cites with ease, people I'm familiar with, and fresh blood, and massages these together into clear thought (whereas Norman's Emotional Design disappointly just cobbled together Internet references).
Oh, and Norman, if you want to see your household robot vision, go see the mindblowing Archigram show - they did buildings as robots in the 60s.
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