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OPEN URBANISM: May 2015
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Tuesday, 12 May 2015. The Ridiculous Handrail and other oblique functions. I’ve got a big backlog of writing to push out here, but I wanted to start off with a story of a curious handrail I saw at the National University of Singapore (my alma mater) when I was back there in March. Who on earth made this handrail, or ordered its installation here? Too bad for the people at the bottom of the stairs). I suppos...
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OPEN URBANISM: October 2014
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Thursday, 30 October 2014. But what does ‘quality’ really mean? How does one begin to quantify the ‘quality’ of an image? How does it affect our appreciation of the image, or original subject of the image? And what does quality mean when we apply it to life itself? What do people mean when they speak of “quality of life”? Posted by debbie ding. Along the way out there was this lovely signage with a white pe...
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OPEN URBANISM: March 2014
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Sunday, 30 March 2014. Covers for Imaginary Novels: "New Horizon". Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER MH370 which has been missing since 8 March 2014. Still from Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon" (1937). The Guardian: "If only we could hope that MH370's passengers really were safe in Shangri-La". Wikipedia: James Hilton's Lost Horizon. Wikipedia: Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937) - "I believe it because I want t...
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OPEN URBANISM: The Ridiculous Handrail and other oblique functions
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Tuesday, 12 May 2015. The Ridiculous Handrail and other oblique functions. I’ve got a big backlog of writing to push out here, but I wanted to start off with a story of a curious handrail I saw at the National University of Singapore (my alma mater) when I was back there in March. Who on earth made this handrail, or ordered its installation here? Too bad for the people at the bottom of the stairs). I suppos...
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OPEN URBANISM: The Spherification of Edible Liquids for Impatient People
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Tuesday, 17 February 2015. The Spherification of Edible Liquids for Impatient People. After a few hits and misses doing spherification experiments over the last few years for fun, here is a collation of some personal observations or lessons learnt about spherification that people don't generally seem to explain properly in all the other recipes or online posts about spherification. Posted by debbie ding.
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OPEN URBANISM: May 2014
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Thursday, 22 May 2014. The Launch of the NewBiologist. My main goal in the production of these images has been to produce something which has the unreal sheen of something computer-generated, have a high degree of photorealism, but be obviously handdrawn when observed close up. The entire image was digitally painted in Photoshop and is not a photograph. In an exploration of long-form creative non-fiction st...
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OPEN URBANISM: February 2015
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Tuesday, 17 February 2015. The Spherification of Edible Liquids for Impatient People. After a few hits and misses doing spherification experiments over the last few years for fun, here is a collation of some personal observations or lessons learnt about spherification that people don't generally seem to explain properly in all the other recipes or online posts about spherification. Posted by debbie ding.
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OPEN URBANISM: April 2014
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Wednesday, 23 April 2014. A History of Parasitology (Meguro Parasitological Museum, Tokyo). Large Intestine of Flying Squirrel filled with pinworms. These pinworms were named Sypharista Kamegaii, after Satoru Kamegai, the first director of this museum.". The Meguro Parasitological Museum was first built with the private funds of Satoru Kamegai). Wax casts of parasite eggs (1000 times actual size). Non-japan...
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OPEN URBANISM: Google Street View Vanishing Point
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Tuesday, 10 February 2015. Google Street View Vanishing Point. Drowned in a dozen different digressions at once! I’m on the inside. looking outside. And you can see the different street view operators themselves in CCTV cameras at times if you zoom in…. I went to google and it seems these interior street views are now an independent thing where approved photographers can do it on behalf of street view, so a...
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OPEN URBANISM: June 2014
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Adventures in tech, electronics, programming, cartography, geology, data, and augmented realities. Sunday, 22 June 2014. Debbie Ding, "From Dust, To Dust". Exhibited at "Ghost on the Wire", Bermonsey Project, London, June 2014. Curated by Gavin Maughfling and Suzanne de Emmony with support of the National Arts Council of Singapore. The above four balls of dust are the culmination of months of me and George collecting and trading dust. Firstly this couldn't have happened without George! Collect all of you...
