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November 20 2009
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- SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
"The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists -- the shopping list, the will, the menu -- that are also cultural achievements in their own right." via mefi
SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
"The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists -- the shopping list, the will, the menu -- that are also cultural achievements in their own right." via mefiin praise of fragments
Something Tom Coates entweetened about blogging the other day has stuck with me. The urge to write longer things makes blogging more considered and therefore harder. Some would say that's a good thing. Filtering out the chaff. I'm not sure....
November 19 2009
Twitter / Tom Coates: The damaging pressure in b ...
cult of sap
I wasn't entirely convinced I'd explained our Augmented Aural Reality app idea properly the other day at Playful and was thinking about writing it up again. But, fortunately, Giles has done a much better job than I could over at...
what I should have said at playful
kevin at the rsa
November 18 2009
bad at blurb
A friend pointed out that I'm quoted on the back of the UK edition of The Invention of Air. I assume this is the result of a canny publisher thinking that using a "Russell Davies" quote stands some chance of...
bad at blurb
November 17 2009
park shadow
November 15 2009
ぐるぐるの性的衝動-Taking the photograph for 24 hours while walking -
１枚写真を撮って、１歩移動。それを24時間繰り返しました。そ の写真で映像を作りました。写真の位置や角度を修正して（自分の 目で確認して手作業で修正）写真の中の風景がぶれないようにしま した。
公衆電話
撮影時間：20分
１周した映像を繰り返してます。
踏切
撮影時間：１時間
１周した映像を繰り返してます。
公園
撮影時間：17時間＋7時間
夜中の０時から撮影。
夕方になって幼稚園児...
November 14 2009
collecting - match attax
collecting - match attax
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