I recently hosted a couple of workshops on an island off the coast of Sweden. I took some basic equipment and offered attendees the option to do a carefully planned workshop to make “firefly’s” – Leds powered by tiny lemon juice batteries – based on this or to do a more creative workshop to make […]
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Living in beta: the guest pod
This is what happens when you create space for things to happen. After building my tree house I had so much room that Chris Doering built a guest pod that he and other friends can stay in when they come visit. Still have room for a lounge area in between and storage rental for Le […]
Dropping out
Ok Iron Blogger, I hereby withdraw. I think the desire to post comes from the desire to share. Beer or penalties only serve to cause me to rush post on my mobile phone or try to think of hasty content at this hour on a Sunday. Besides – it looks like i’ll be leaving berlin […]
Human responsibility
Whilst calling in at Occupy Berlin I observed article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security […]
Just Wow
Adventures in autonomy are reaching another peak this week with the Human Rights Makerlab due to finish tomorrow. Crazy to think that just 3 weeks ago, a group of people (some of whom didn’t even meet until the event), embarked on a crazy mission to co-create an event at the DMY. Videos, Magazines, Pics, and […]
Living in Beta: Meta
My life is a prototype, I am a prototype, my room is a prototype, everything in the world is a prototype.This idea appeared to resonate from my talk at re:publica – more applied to the world as a whole. But I feel it warrants more attention and clarification of personal intention. “The world is our […]
Social Empowerment and the Future of Money
Last week I gave an interview at Deutschland radio on social empowerment and the future of money – http://breitband.dradio.de/die-zukunft-des-geldes/, think I loose the thread a little where I have to relate it to gaming, but prior to that pretty happy. Only the German version is posted, […]
Upcycled Keyboard
I’ve been using one of these for a while now, and just made another for a friend. I have plenty more Old MacBook broken keyboards to play with if anyone wants one. Track pad works as well. I use mine to allow me to use my laptop in a more ergonomic way. Still trying to […]
On New Aesthetics
Have you seen this man? So the Web is a buzz (or at least a good contingent of one of the overlapping niches I follow) with discussion on the New Aesthetic. But I fear the visual focus may result in us missing the real area of intrigue. As Bruce Sterling commented: “I left with the […]
Brainfarht: Ethical Production “Knock offs”
Just a provocation. Somebody should start copying major brands, but produce their wares more fairly and locally. Selling a higher value item at a sustainable price. Rather than cheap knock offs, these would be more expensive or same price but with added social value. Social and environmental value should be noted and also promoted. It […]
