Stockholm

holm = island

Stockholm = Island of Stock

Navigating by street names may be tricky but I believe my map has a faithful je ne sais quoi, as the situationists would say.

Being on a train is a microcosm of the private/public blur. Not only is the carriage leaking out business and living room phone calls but it's being instagrammed, emailed and tweeted from - a carriage of documention. I looked down the aisle once to see a guy sat with his smartphone square in my direction. I don't think he was taking photos, but the psychological panopticon effect had already snapped my posture into david bowie's "Heroes" pose (in reality, I hopped on to the next seat. Away from the line of sight and my rock star photo shoot).

Catenary Curves

Perhaps I posted something about catenaries before?? But I've never found a more concise video than this. Do not be freaked out by the maths, allow the hidden descriptions of your environment be explained by one James Grime. Let the chains of understanding (yes, permission to shoot me granted) free you from the cold winter morning.

Timothy Ingold Rant on Haraway

I thought this was superb.
Transcribed for your pleasure

"If i get annoyed with Latour I get positively angry reading Haraway, its got nothing to do with her arguments, it's her style. I find her style pretentious in the extreme and quite unnecessarily so, it's badly written and it's just that kind of stuff that everybody loves because [its] sort of written in this academese and I'm really fed up with bad academic writing parading as something deep." 

"So anyway I really really don't enjoy reading Haraway. The other reason why I don't enjoy it is most of the time when it comes to the dogs and things, companion, animal stuff, she's catching up where people who have been working on animal - human relations have been talking about this for donkeys years and just re-packaging it. So I'm not terribly impressed. I sort of threw her in because she's been talking about this 'being with the animals' and rest of it - but we knew that!"

He concludes, "in terms of the argument I'm on the same page as she is."

Deep link here 

"I think you can find them on the internet"

It's true.

when i'm out walking, I strut my stuff

Testing, testing 1 2

Night tracing foot movement with glow bracelets.

Today's lesson;

The bracelets work as long as they're the strongest light source. This makes it kind of limiting to use in most urban environments with lighting (where people are!).

I have a team of technicians strapping flood lights to our athletes as I type

Glow Bracelets

Controlling the night life fun.

That's one party and one concert, no more!
I'll try to stay under the limit, testing these tonight.