Yesterday on the news, I learned about a project and an exhibition that is coming to an end that illustrated the nuanced relationship among humans and machines through one purpose-built scribe. For several months, a robotic-arm from a research laboratory in Karlsruhe has been reproducing the Luther Bible in an early Renaissance hand on a very long, continuous scroll of parchment. Visitors to the exhibition were able to watch the robot in action, and this is not the first time that the research company has offered man-machine engagements meant to spur the imagination and blur preconceptions about interaction, including several parties hosted by robotic disc-jockeys.
Tuesday 7 February 2012
dexterity or hand-jive
Monday 6 February 2012
sexagennial or diamond jubilee
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ง, ๐ฎ๐ฒ, holidays and observances, lifestyle
Sunday 5 February 2012
docking bay 94 or suitable for framing
catagories: graphic design, Star Wars
Saturday 4 February 2012
what time is it, ma?
catagories: antiques, networking and blogging
retracta and rokovania
catagories: ๐ช๐บ, ๐ฅธ, foreign policy, graphic design, networking and blogging
Friday 3 February 2012
dibba, dubai, abu dhabi
Tensions mounting over the flow of traffic through that potential choke-point of the Strait of Hormuz come from a wide array of trajectories, with a lot of significance and history not only in tow but also projecting, deferring antagonism into some imagined and virtual future. The arts, cultures, diplomacies, histories and scholarship of the people of Persia, as it is for a lot of other peoples of the region, have been saddled with a great unplumbed and sad ignorance on the part of many outsiders and reckon their story only begins with twilight colonialism and the framework of shoves and tugs of foreign policy.
catagories: foreign policy, revolution, technology and innovation, transportation
Thursday 2 February 2012
rumour-mill
Although the deportment, the way they choose to carry themselves, of senior military leadership, under all flags, I think, does not excuse or explain all the murky prospecting that has been carried out in the name of democracy, provocation and business-interests, I do think that that deportment, however, does play into how leadership handles morale, uncertainty and rumour management.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, foreign policy, lifestyle
Wednesday 1 February 2012
prognosticate, procrastinate
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, holidays and observances, lifestyle, travel