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2011

Lunch with the FT: Mitsuko Uchida - FT.com

by karlcow

And the vulgarity? “Have you never visited a Japanese household? The traditional image is of clear-cut lines, everything so simple, nothing to be seen except the tatami mat. Today, every tiny Japanese apartment is crammed with a mishmash of souvenirs, east European embroidery, a candle from Greece, a German plate, a good-luck cat with one hand up – superstitious things you can buy at a temple. There’s an obsession with labels but no judgment of what constitutes vulgarity. People are more affluent. There’s a lack of confidence about tradition because the Japanese are still enthralled with western culture. But when I look at [the classical music boom in] China, Japan and Korea, the only country where they seem to be genuinely music-loving is Korea.”

Heuuu? C'est partout la même chose. La différence est qu'elle est expatriée.

François Bon : Après le livre, pas d'apocalypse - Livres - La Vie

by night.kame & 1 other (via)

Pour moi, l'iPad est plus confortable qu'un livre imprimé : il est moins lourd, [...]

Et pourtant, je ne connais pas beaucoup de livres de poche pesant plus de 600g (700g pour un iPad1, mais quand on vénère la lecture sur LCD rétroéclairé, on peut bien y investir 600€ par an non ?). Ou alors, il y a obsession sur le gros livre, et là évidemment, il y a une lutte entre l'haltère et l'iPad.

Mediated Cityscapes 03: DIY Cartography - Guest post on CAN by Greg J. Smith (@serial_consign) | CreativeApplications.Net

by karlcow

An idiosyncratic example of an mapping project being driven by a personal obsession is Michael Cook’s ongoing exploration of the Toronto sewer system. Wearing urban infiltration, geography graduate student and photographer hats, Cook has been researching the underground constructed landscapes of the Greater Toronto Area for the last decade.

it takes one person dedicated to a specific project

Designing faster with a baseline grid | Teehan+Lax

by sbrothier & 1 other
Lately, grids have become the ultimate obsession of designers and design writers: hundreds — not to say thousands — of articles, tutorials, books and websites solely dedicated to grids and their application in (web)design have been published in the last few years. A simple search on Google with the terms “grid” and “webdesign” returns almost 5 million results. There is even a movie with characters trapped in what they call “the grid” […] “a final frontier”.

Levi van Veluw - Official website | Landscapes

by karlcow

Thus a fresh twist is given to the obsession inherent in the romantic landscape of recreating the world and simultaneously being part of it.

2010

Koopa, It’s What’s For Supper « Jude Buffum

by sbrothier
For the upcoming show Pixel Pushers, sponsored by SCION and curated by Giant Robot, I decided to explore the carnivorous side of the world of video games. Though I myself eat meat, enough of my friends and loved ones are now vegetarians or vegans, so it’s something I’ve been experimenting with. I suppose these pieces are a by-product of that exploration. That, and my long-time obsession with meat diagrams.

Tate Modern| Current Exhibitions | Exposed

by karlcow

The UK is now the most surveyed country in the world. We have an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance – images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV.

“for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy

by alphoenix
Amidst all of this, 4chan has “popped.” Journalists and academics are clamoring to discuss and analyze 4chan. At first, it was all about discussing whether or not this community of 9.5 million mostly young mostly male internet people was evil or brilliant. Lately, the obsession focuses on anonymity, signaling that Chris’ TED talk set the frame for public discourse about 4chan. Both of these are certainly interesting topics. 4chan has created some of the most lovable memes on the internet but /b/tards have also been some of the most nefarious trolls and griefers on the web.

Webdocu : Cañon City, la ville prison : LesInrocks.com

by sbrothier & 1 other
Dans le Colorado, une ville entière vit de l’industrie pénitenciaire. Matons, cuisiniers, jardiniers, psychologues, tous travaillent dans les treize prisons de la vallée. Deux reporters ont capté dans un webdocu interactif cette obsession carcérale.

Webdocu : Cañon City, la ville prison : LesInrocks.com

by srcmax & 1 other
Dans le Colorado, une ville entière vit de l’industrie pénitenciaire. Matons, cuisiniers, jardiniers, psychologues, tous travaillent dans les treize prisons de la vallée. Deux reporters ont capté dans un webdocu interactif cette obsession carcérale.

Commentaires - QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession

by night.kame

As a matter of fact, IE6 were creating new elements, functions, css properties to fulfill some duties (png transparency, opacity, blinking text). They are proprietary functionalities. Webkit is different: they're following the W3C recommendations and is always up-to-date for free.

Le danger du web reste que la marée de l'ignorance à tendance à engloutir les bancs de connaissance.

QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession

by night.kame & 2 others

More specifically, today I will shout at web developers who think that delicately inserting an iPhone up their ass is the same as mobile web development.

Et oui, l'iPhone c'est pour les fesses, et l'iPad c'est pour...

2009

EBOY - PIXORAMA @ SINCE UPIAN ARTSPACE - PARIS - OPENING | Guillotine

by srcmax (via)
Le trio de designers berlinois eBoy expose depuis ce soir à Paris, chez Since Upian Artspace. Ils présentent Pixorama, leurs récents travaux en pixel art. On peut y apprécier leur obsession pour le pixel et se perdre dans les villes pixélisées, colorées et surchargées de logos, d’humains, de monstres, et d’objets de toutes sortes. Jusqu’au 18 juillet.

2008

40 ans + tard

by tehu
"la jeunesse qui bouge a changé de camp !" // Non non non -- ce n'est pas une obsession.

Dispatches from the Island: My Current Obsession

by bouilloire
Arf j'ai le même à la maison en ce moment ^^;

L'obsession de Cécilia, INFO OBS

by srcmax, 2 comments
"Si tu reviens, j'annule tout'. Voilà le contenu d'un SMS que le chef de l'Etat aurait envoyé à son ex-épouse huit jours avant son mariage.

2007

My favourite photo blogs (and more) (Conscientious)

by mozkart & 1 other
5B4 is a blog about photo books. I love (and collect) photo books. Everybody loves Alec Soth's blog, for obvious reasons. It's simply great. Exposure is a new blog by Aperture, which has had a very promising start. BLDGBLOG is not a photo blog (it's mostly about architecture), but it so intelligently written that every other post I wonder how amateurish my writing might look in comparison. BPS Research Digest, a blog summarizing psychological research, typically makes me channel Mr Spock ("Fascinating!"). For me, Brian Ulrich's blog is right up there with Alec's blog, with a slightly different focus and style. Ed Winkleman's blog is the only art blog that I read regularly (even though I scan a few others). His is most engaging (but hey! what do I know about art?) Exposure Compensation is a great photo blog. gmtPlus9 (-15) requires advanced calculus to determine the actual time zone, but will keep you entertained until you manage to figure it out. i heart photograph features a lot of good photography, with preferences a bit different from mine. Great blog! Modern Art Obsession delivers art/photography with a bit of attitude nicely. The actual Mrs. Deane behind Mrs. Deane is a good friend, and her blog I cannot praise enough. muse-ings always contains "intelligent" (M. Parr) and interesting discussions of photo issues and photographer's work, with the ruffling of the feathers being a regular feature. Another must read, just like (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography, which, however, is a bit more on the politics and - often - theory side. Shane Lavalette's blog is another great photo blog, as is The Sonic Blog, the only German blog in this list. VVORK shows you an ecclectic set of art with few words (just the way I like my art). For those who want to read Frank Rich's columns without having to buy the waste of paper called the Sunday New York Times, there's Welcome to Pottersville (the magazine is online and quite overrated actually).

Acceptance Testing of Web Applications with PHP

by chantal & 3 others (via)
In this article I introduce the topic of Acceptance Testing (aka Functional Testing), something more PHP programmers should be starting to practice. I'm sure many of us are well aware of Unit Testing and even Integration Testing so where does this third wheel come into play for web applications given our growing obsession with Web 2.0 and AJAX and how does it differ from the former two practices? Below I'll explain this. I will also introduce how to implement Acceptance Testing using the killer combination of PHPUnit and Selenium.

Ninja Obsession

by sbrothier
"write your own history books" Coldcut

2006

"Narbonic" By Shaenon K. Garrity

by Foolster41
A web comic about a mad scientist who vies for world domination with her gun-ho bodyguard Mel, programmer Dave Davenport and a strange obsession with genetically mutated gerbils. Updating ended in 2006. Some Mildly Suggestive Themes.

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