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Comment on Student portfolio sites by Dan W

Dan W — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:14:54 +0000

I keep seeing Indexhibit [http://www.indexhibit.org/] used for portfolio sites, as well as tumblr and printed Newspaper Clubs (just from browsing last years student shows).

Comment on Totalitarian Helvetica Microsoft Vision Video by Dan

Dan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:53:17 +0000

Three Fonts for the Linux-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Design-lords in their halls of white,
Nine for Mortal Macs doomed to die,
One for the Dark Future in its vision video
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.
One @font-face rule for them, one font for that the grid will fit
One font to clearly show information and whilst on the move to display it
In the Land of Microsoft where the Shadows lie.

Comment on Totalitarian Helvetica Microsoft Vision Video by Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:29:06 +0000

The future. Available to you soon, starting at a modest household income of 80,000 quid + (inflation adjusted).* *Provided your not above 40 or exist outside a gated work/life community or the sanitized global workforce transport mole tunnel connecting them.

Comment on Totalitarian Helvetica Microsoft Vision Video by Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:52:21 +0000

I think the font is Gotham, saw this posted on opinionatedtype.

Comment on Totalitarian Helvetica Microsoft Vision Video by Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:45:36 +0000

It might be Abadi. Which is a microsoft font… based on Helvetica and Gill Sans.

The future will not be televised, it will be helveticised.

Comment on I’m talking about Gamification in Bath (Fri 28th Oct) by Gamification, Design & Beyond Talk « A Great Becoming…

Gamification, Design & Beyond Talk « A Great Becoming… — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:41:59 +0000

[...] going to this – totally recommend it! Dan Dixon is talking… Friday 28th October at [...]

Comment on Don’t blame the booze for the binge: Anthropology and Alcohol by peter malcolm

peter malcolm — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:20:27 +0000

I agree entirely with the above statement, any actions or attitudes that people adopt when with drink come about from the uninhibiting factor of alcoholic consumption,they are releasing the suppressed anger and aggression that has been held in check by the constraints of suppression and nothing to to with the alcohol.

Comment on Audio Obscura – More Liminal Media by Dan

Dan — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:25 +0000

All excellent points. The headphones are noise cancelling and the voices are actors. There is apparently recorded background station noise so it feels real.

And a camera obscura is somewhat like a one way mirror in that you can observe people unaware, and even more invisible to passersby.

Comment on Audio Obscura – More Liminal Media by Paul Hulbert

Paul Hulbert — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:53:59 +0000

It’s interesting that all the photos in the trailer video are “anonymised” – back views of people, out of focus or blurred, features covered by hair or left out of frame. This device has been used to set a mood, to replace being among a crowd of people you don’t know. The photos are also monochrome, which now seems to stand for anonymity, or making the viewer a remote observer – a meaning that has changed within my own lifetime with the ubiquity of colour photography, and latterly the easy access to digital media.

The voiceover adds another level of anonymity because it’s an actor’s voice. I’m not clear whether the actual event would be “real people’s” voices, breaking the expected confidentiality of talking to a companion in a crowd – that would be the real audio version of the camera obscura, but it has unsettling overtones of Big Brother.

So yes, this is liminality – a line is drawn between the observer and the observed. Maybe it’s less a camera obscura, more a one-way mirror?

Comment on Blast Theory, Technology and Process by dan

dan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:58:02 +0000

And I’m now thinking more about describing it as procedure rather than process.

Comment on Blast Theory, Technology and Process by dan

dan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:57:38 +0000

Techné being the greek word for craft and the etymological route for technology shows that there is an intrinsic link between the the idea of technology and craft. The use of process and procedures is a technology, in the same way that any cultural object can really be thought of as a technical object. So I completely agree but need to work out a better way of putting it. For this post I was splitting them up to sit better with a lay concept of gadgety, object technology. The blast theory technical systems are interesting in that, IMHO, much more happens in the bits that have not been paid so much attention to in previous documentation.

Comment on The Blast Theory artists by Marcus Lynch

Marcus Lynch — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:42:39 +0000

Just as well you’re not then!

Comment on The Blast Theory artists by dan

dan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:22:36 +0000

If I was a deleuzian I would say I was an assemblage.

Comment on Blast Theory residency day 2 by Ju Row Farr on Kidnap | digitaldust

Ju Row Farr on Kidnap | digitaldust — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:19:38 +0000

[...] generally let the conversation take its own course. Here I’m trying to present some of the elements of ritual process that I’ve dragged [...]

Comment on The Blast Theory artists by Marcus Lynch

Marcus Lynch — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:18:24 +0000

“Dan Dixon” is a collective entity? “Their blog”… Or is it non-sexist usage?