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¶ I recently wrote two articles for internet famous Contemporary Design blog MocoLoco. Firstly, a review of this year’s Environment Design grad show at UQAM which featured many very interesting object-design projects; and secondly, an article on South-Korean designer Kwangho Lee’s work showcased at Montreal’s design boutique/gallery Commissaire. Journalism and writing in english are fun!
¶ Penguin books is presenting We Tell Stories, a series of six stories inspired by six classics novels wrote by six contemporary authors, each with a digital twist in the storytelling. Week 1: Charles Cumming’s writes The 21 Steps, a detective story told with google maps. Week 2: Toby Litt writes Slice, teenage horror via 2 blogs & twitter, giving it its sense of realism. Week 3, interactive fairy tale writing with Kevin Brooks. 3 more to come.
¶ Pour Catherine et tout intéressé au développement particulier de la langue française d’icitte: en quoi se caractérise le français du Québec. J’adore le qualificatif vivant désignant l’utilisation courante d’un mot dans une langue, ou d’un champ spécifique de celle-ci. Il dénote cette perception organique et évolutive de la langue parmi ses locuteurs: il existe parce qu’il est employé, existant officiellement aurpès de l’office ou non. Je suis parlé, donc je suis. (Merci Papa)
¶ Data-visualization lovers: Looking at the bible as a very rich gathering of cross-references, names and places and visually displaying all these connections. I can not think of any other book that would display such a list of different people and places that cross-reference through its entire scope.
¶ Jf et Ironica, vous allez l’aimer celle là: Le bloye à Jacques Demers. Des calembours d’analphabète. Trop hot.
¶ Kottke made a nice review of Ratatouille’s very convincing realism. “I’m not quite sure how this is possible, but the people in Ratatouille acted more like real people than the actors in many recent live action movies”. He even later quotes Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building. I myself haven’t seen the movie yet (I’m more of a DVD rental guy), but has anybody else felt this way the movie?
¶ Onesentence.org is true stories told in one sentence. If I meet somebody who has been working on a project for some time and I feel they are kind of sick of telling people about it (and thus don’t really feel like getting into explaining the whole thing) I always ask them to simply explain it in one sentence, no more. Challenging them to a concise yet full and direct explanation always seem to get them started and interested in talking about it.