Archivos diarios: 16 de abril de 2012

Las personas normales vamos a la playa y como mucho montamos algún gran sistema de irrigación, acompañado de torres con exótica arquitectura que inevitablemente se desmoronan tras el colapso de la civilización agraria que las había levantado. Max Lamb va a la playa y… bueno, ya verán:

Inspired by a childhood spent on the beaches of Cornwall building castles, boats and tunnels in the sand, I decided to return to my favourite beach at Caerhays on the south coast of Cornwall to produce a stool using a primitive form of sand-casting. Molten pewter was poured into a sand mould sculpted directly into the beach by hand, and once cooled the sand was dug away to reveal a pewter stool.

(vía Make)

El arte cumple, y ha cumplido, muchas funciones. Según Douglas Rushkoff, una de esas funciones es reflexionar sobre las nuevas creaciones tecnológicas, sobre sus implicaciones.

I think the artist, even more than government, has become the one who is doing long-term thinking about what’s happening, what are the implications, what are we doing to ourselves? And they’re some of the only ones, really. An artist’s job is to sit outside what’s happening and reflect back to us where the human is in this. I think it’s a very valuable exercise. It’s just the opposite exercise of what most people probably think it is. It’s not for technologists to realize the visions of artists. It feels much more like it’s for artists to contextualize the visions of technologists.

En Technology, Art, And Why The Future Of Branding Is Nonfiction.

Me recuerda a aquel consejo de Borges de que si un libro no te interesa, déjalo y pasa a otro (o algo a ese efecto). Borges sí que sabía.

En este caso, habla de la supuesta ventaja del Kindle al eliminar distracciones.

One response is to cut yourself off: many users of the Kindle claim to prefer it because of its relative disconnectedness. The Kindle is a single-purpose device: you use it for reading, not for "distraction". But I think this attitude does a disservice to the text: if the book is not enough to hold your attention, then surely it is failing.

En The ebook that forces the reader to pay attention | Books | The Observer.