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Month January 2009

Project Proposal, Feasibility Study, and Nifty Diagram

This blog entry might not look like a lot, but there is a fair amount of words to chew through in the linked files. project-proposal-dm-pete-hindle-v2 weeks-project feasibility-study These files relate to the ongoing work of Unnamed Laboratory, and to my coursework within the Digital Media unit. As such, they are here as much for reference [...]

Other Cultures: slub, (void), and pickledfeet

weareten from Earle Martin on Vimeo. As you read this, I’ll be flying to Berlin for the annual New Media bash, Transmediale. I’m not that interested in the actual main event, which although having some interesting content, is far too reliant upon art institutions sending out curators and other organisers in the hope that they’ll [...]

Unboxing Bitsbox

I came across the website http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/ the other day, and I was just so tempted by the piles of electrical componants they had that I floundered into capitalism. Just doing my bit to support the economy. One of the problems of making (in the Make Magazine sense of the word) within Newcastle is that it’s [...]

I will be ignoring my email for ten days.

I’m travelling to Berlin for ten days, from today, and as such will not have regular access to email. Rather than attempt to keep up with the enormous volume of email I get, or wade through the majority to find the interesting stuff, I’m not going to read any of it. Sorry. It’s a time/efficiency [...]

American Ride Temperatures as Spreadsheet Examples

(click image to see large/download) Following on from the last post, I just quickly wanted to post this image of the last database and spreadsheet work I did, which was featured in a magazine called ‘Esc’. This is a list of the average temperatures of all the Critical Mass locations in the USA, which I [...]

Databasing the Hackerspaces

As part of my research, I’ve been maintaining a list of Hackerspaces, Medialabs, and other related initiatives. But the problem of storing the data about them is one of storing it in a useful manner – how can I create a relational database of my research? Thankfully, I have two database experts on hand. My [...]

Back to Work

The past few weeks have been an excruciating battle against my attention span, as I have attempted to hand in several really important pieces of work for my university course. However, with that hand in comes the period where I can actually readjust and get back to work. And I kind of think that there [...]

On Mavernship (part two: The Men from the High Castles)

Part two of some, which seem to be slightly rambly. Oh well. Better out than in. Before I get going here, let’s just take a minute out to think about the image creators of the world. I’m not talking about painters, or any other type of specific mileau, but rather just the general act of [...]

On Mavernship (part one: rafts and curves)

Part one of some, in which you can read me espousing in a generalised year-end type way. The other day, a very clever man explained to me about careers and learning curves. He was saying that every two years we complete another learning curve, take a look around at the career we’ve been having, and [...]