Stewart Brand in his shipping container
Working on the digital tabletop got me thinking back to Stewart Brand talking about how he constructed How Buildings Learn:
...the most important tool for organizing projects is lots of horizontal space and immediate-to-hand storage…
by Durrell Bishop via Matt Webb's Filtered for that which motivates form. Described as the seed for the tangible user interface movement. I'd love to make some stuff like this.
I saw the bowls (clinamen v.11 by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot). A perfect generative piece because you can immediately understand how it operates but the results are no less magical. It feels very like something from nature in that way.
It was nice to be around a bunch of other people who decided it was something worth making the effort to see.
From https://solander38.com/stories/solander-38
I thought this, on why they didn't retrofit their old boat, was an interesting point about design:
The pathology of generative AI is that it too easily allows substantial form without discernible intent. That mistake is harder to make when creating by hand.
Well put by caleb gross, and:
A human can show up to a task with an unclear mental model of what they mean to accomplish, and an AI can generate something anyway. “Write a letter of resignation for me to send to my boss.” “Hmm…I guess that looks good.”
From Wikipedia via André's agent coordination project:
Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. [...] By offloading memory to the environment (as stigmergic traces), and computation to interaction between agents and traces, complex distributed cognition is performed by remarkably simple organisms.
Thinking about the aliens in Blindsight.
A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/
Looks like a barcode scan amounts to clicking into an article - probably feels satisfying to do
Receipt printers seem to be in use as well
Apparently a set of folks are working on IDEs for visualizing base model completions as trees. I love that people are experimenting with this.
From https://x.com/transkatgirl/status/1997846030369562794/photo/3
Thinking about ways to combine this with some of my tabletop experiments. From Yancy Strickler.
Computer emulator that shows data and code at multiple levels. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_6pZ_sT3y0
The Dirtywave M8 seems really interesting. I like the gamepad feel. Maybe a way to make controls feel more visceral and rhythmic. I also like this camera/streaming setup. With the full device showing on the right and the screen on the left.
A great resource complete with video excerpts by Kristen Roos
Projections on all sides of a room. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uVf65bNgo
