Samsung have designed a concept camera with a tactile interface, the Touch Sight (from the naming-the bloody-obvious department). It’s a camera with a tactile display at the back, and some sort of sound recording setting to go with your photographs so that you know which is which. The tactile interface, apparently, also acts as a [...]
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bridge
August 19, 2008 – 2:35 pm
Rainer Maria Rilke: Pont du Caroussel
Der blinde Mann, der auf der Brücke steht,
Grau wie ein Markstein namenloser Reiche,
Er ist vielleicht das Ding, das immer gleiche,
Um das von fern die Sternenstunde geht,
Und der Gestirne stiller Mittelpunkt.
Denn alles um ihm irrt und rinnt und prunkt.
Er ist der unbewegliche Gerechte,
In viele wirre Wege hingestellt;
Der dunkle Eingang in die [...]
summerguests
August 17, 2008 – 10:00 pm
I’m watching Zomergasten (Summerguests) at the moment, with Annemarie Prins, who is playing Annie M.G. Schmidt in a yet to be released biographical film. They’re showing a few fragments. It’s uncanny how much their voices are alike!. D. is gasping as she’s watching, because Prins is such a great actress. Note on the programme: Zomergasten [...]
traces
August 10, 2008 – 11:13 pm
Food for thought, or for the soul: Centre Pompidou proposes “Traces of the Sacred“, an exhibition about mysticism in modern art. Both D. and I go, but we go independently. D. goes to see it with L., then L. accompanies me. Fortunately there is an audio tour, although the PDA on which the audio annotations [...]
polder
August 3, 2008 – 5:11 pm
Having been invited to a meeting at “Aardzee“, which can be found right in the middle of what used to be “Oostelijk Flevoland”, I also had an opportunity to visit G., who is the recumbent/advanced cycle guru of the Netherlands and beyond. He holds court in Dronten, so it was a real scenic detour. I [...]
boucle
July 6, 2008 – 9:59 am
Well, they’re off: the 2008 edition of the Tour de France started yesterday. Here’s a clip from 1987: Stephen Roche surprisingly beats Pedro Delgado, in La Plagne. Roche then collapses and needs to be given oxygen on the finish line. It’s obvious why last year’s Tour and the editions before that, were marred by allegations, [...]
daft
July 4, 2008 – 8:32 pm
From Daft Punk’s “electroma” (part 2 is here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUJZhJFQSY0
bardo
July 2, 2008 – 7:09 pm
From: Reginald Ray, Secret of the Vajra World - The Tantric Buddhism of Tibet
In the bardo retreat, one follows a course of meditation that simulates the experiences of death and the after-death state. (See chapter 14.) The retreat itself is carried out in complete darkness, and because it is considered dangerous, facilities for it were [...]
