1 of 10 posts filed under urban
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a quote
posted 1 week ago
filed under:
Augmented reality,
urban,
“For all the hesitations anybody may have, and for all the vulnerabilities even casual observers can readily diagnose in the chain of technical articulations that produces an augmentive overlay, it is hard to argue against a technology that glimmers with the promise of transcendence. Over anything beyond the immediate near term, some form of wearable augmentive device does seem bound to take a prominent role in returning networked information to the purview of a mobile user at will, and thereby in mediating the urban experience.”
— Adam Greenfield - On Augmenting Reality
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a quote
posted 5 months ago
filed under:
urban,
society,
London,
“The thing is, most people in London are tired of life. You’ve only got to witness the queues in the Westfield multi-storey or the reaction to a crying baby on the tube to realise that this is a city which exists permanently at the end of its tether. People can live in London and be simultaneously tired of it, because – unlike in Mr Johnson’s time – London is no longer a few cobbled streets and a big old prison. It’s the last metropolis in a sinking country on a starving continent, an island within an island oozing out into the Home Counties like an unstoppable concrete oil spill.”
— Reasons Why London Is The Worst Place Ever
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a video
posted 5 months ago
filed under:
urban,
culture,
drones,
video,
uav,
Firefly by Samadhi Production is a skate video shot from above using UAVs.
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a quote
(reblogged from digitalurbanisms) posted 5 months ago
filed under:
urban,
war,
data,
“The IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux.”
— The Art of War
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a photo
posted 5 months ago
filed under:
urban,
war,
uav,
drones,
logistics,
The Urban Aeronautics AirMule is a compact, unmanned, single-engine, VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aircraft. Internal lift rotors enable the AirMule to fly inside obstructed (e.g. mountainous, wooded, urban) terrain where helicopters are unable to operate. The AirMule is innovative due to its internal rotors and significant payload capacity that allows for the evacuation of 2 casualties as well as fast and flexible payload reconfiguration for other missions. It is also ideally suited to special robotic operation, for example via Tele-Presence.
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a photo
(reblogged from varanine) posted 7 months ago
filed under:
art,
urban,
intervention,
google,
photography,
“In the hippest areas for Street Art, life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View are printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were taken.”
Street Ghosts
(Source: varanine)
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a quote
posted 9 months ago
filed under:
play,
urban,
subculture,
“Two hundred years of american technology had unwittingly created a massive cement playground of unlimited potential. But it was the minds of 11 year olds that could see that potential.”
— Craig Stecyk - Dogtown and Z-Boys
(Source: betaknowledge)
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a photo
(reblogged from urbanfunscape) posted 9 months ago
filed under:
urban,
surveillance,
cctv,
hacking,
intervention,
privacy,
security,
public,
2.4Ghz by Benjamin Gaulon makes the streams from wireless surveillance cameras visible to the public.
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a photo
(reblogged from urbanfunscape) posted 11 months ago
filed under:
urban,
intervention,
behaviour,
People rest and relax on public steps anyway, so why not give them a comfortable way to do so? Stair Squares, a concept by Mark Reigelman, are little blue tables that fit perfectly onto steps to offer little tables for eating and reading. The stairs were installed on the front steps of Brooklyn’s Borough Hall in the summer of 2007.
