So much life, so little time…

tilting

It’s funny how trails of information flow across different media.  Today, on the train home, I picked up a (now free) Evening Standard and caught an articleabout how fashion designers are trying their hand at architecting buildings, mainly interiors.  In that article it mentioned someone called Paul Virilio and his book “The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers” which sounded intriguing.  Getting home I googled for it and found a bunch of pictures, leading me to this site with stunning pictures and a translation of Virilio’s preface to the book.   Some have an other-world, almost Star Wars, like quality of the structures embedded and strewn over bleak landscapes – as if pushed in by gods.  WWII era constructions some have an intensely modern feel – finding them as moon base structures wouldn’t be any more surprising.  This one, “tilting”, evokes a crashed space craft, chunky as it is!  Great to find art and philosophy in surprising places.  And the possibly final link from newspaper to search engine to website exhibition to blog via a tweet is made.

At the LA Times some great ideas about Wave applied to a specific work activity…

……”For the last two months, while we’ve been testing the Google Wave developer preview, we have been talking amongst ourselves about how this thing could change (or add to) what we do. So, here’s a list of a few wild ideas we had for using Wave.” Covering…

• Collaborative reporting
• Record and archive interviews
• Live editing
• Smarter story updates
• Discuss while you read
• Transparent writing process
• Instant polls
• Wiki news aggregator

Was doing some artwork recently and needed some shades based on Ubuntu’s colours. Stumbled across the cool colourlovers.com website, couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for, so I signed up and created a couple of palettes and based on Ubuntu orange and red.