Catching up with the Ubuweb Ballard items. Decent BBC4 profile with the man himself in his natural habitats: Heathrow T4 Hilton’s restaurant, a suburban reservoir, etc. Very enjoyable peak millennium aesthetics.

“I’ve never actually stayed in this hotel”

This is probably the tamest of the options on the Ubuweb profile: https://ubuweb.com/film/ballard.html

via: https://ubuweb.com/film/ballard_profile.html

Still live internet archive find: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ayianapa2001/

big up Tim & Barry. RIP Rashad

As of this post the Linux kernal represents 5,552 years of human effort according to https://www.openhub.net/p/linux estimates. Even considering a wide range of error in that estimate it is still incredible. But then again there are a lot of humans on the planet and combining all their work can quickly provide centuries worth of human labor. Raises lots of questions. A a £303 million dollar project in ‘free’ use by the very underpinnings of the internet. Pretty wild.

Kielder 2013 – Harvest Site North East Forest District from ScanLAB on Vimeo.

House of Detention from ScanLAB on Vimeo.

Amazing use of color 3D scanning technology. I especially like the description of the forestry scene as a tableau.

Old thoughts of future I guess stuck in paradigms. Part of recently public domain’ed British Library stuff

VIA

One of my favourite things in life are homemade instructional videos. I love these kind of videos because they are the commons and the general intellect in pure form. I particularly like these gardening ones:

The city can work like this: Alt-Erlaa housing estate Vienna.

more & details at: http://spfaust.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/alt-erlaa-architecture-that-serves-a-social-purpose-social-housing-that-looks-feels-like-luxury-housing/

A mini-documentary about a housing estate in London. [This is the ‘work’ edit cus I prefer it to the original]