jenna gavin

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Jude is Dead

Lie for me,

Love for me,

Sing for me,

Spout it,

I’m listening.

No defense,

Unyielding is my heart,

And my ears,

And my tears,

Seething my blackest of fears,

As you choose to slice them in a song.

And it’s wrong,

And “so long” makes a beautiful song,

And I know,

And it shows that you’re not very fond

Of the love that she gave

And the life that you’d planned.

Jude is dead and no one gives a damn.

So now I have friends,

At least one,

And he sends his time

Spouting an angel-like shout.

With his screams he defends

What I’ve known and the sadness I’ve had.

And “I Cant Stop My Feet,”

And he’s dying,

And it really makes me mad…

That he’s gone,

And I’m sad that it’s done,

And the voice of a God has gone out,

All alone once again,

Never knowing the one that’d want as my friend.

And Michael Jude is dead.

Michael Jude is dead. Sorry son, sorry son, better luck, better luck, better luck, better luck…

Open your eyes.

Are you blind?

What’s the deal?

Can’t you see 

That he spoke of a love

That arrested the real?

And we feel,

And we get on our knees as we kneel,

And we beg,

And we pray for Britney Spears…

is a witch,

And a sign that the truth, it has passed.

And the wrong’s always right

But she has a nice ass,

As we pray for a taste,

And a touch,

And a tit.

Jude came and went but no one gave a shit.

No one gave a shit. Sorry son, sorry son, better luck better luck, better luck, better luck.

And Jude still lives but no one gives a…

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Vines - Processing

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what have i done.

http://madebyevan.com/shaders/grid/

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@synergybct @joachimpearson I know you wanted a few logo concepts but this is my first one and it really can’t be improved upon

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Mesh_Screen_18

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Processing: Hexagons

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Processing: Playing with Curves #001. Inspired by http://marcinignac.com/projects/cindermedusae/

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Design Fiction

To start with Bruce Sterling’s familiar definition:

‘Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.’

There are several keywords here that demand closer examination. First, fiction - in The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek describes the viewer’s reading (of cinema) by stating that, ‘if something gets too traumatic, too violent, even too filled in with enjoyment, it shatters the coordinates of our reality - we have to fictionalise it’. This statement is helpful as it succinctly describes two states of being and the relationship between them: the nonfiction world, defined by the coordinates of reality, and its fictional counterpart (diegesis).

Second, diegetic - from diegesis: the world in which the story takes place and for which the prototypes are designed. Through the manipulation of a particular set of coordinates, a fictional or alternative world can be constructed.

Third, a more complex issue is raised by the use of design when combined with the term change. The recent emergence of counter or oppositional forms of design (such as design fiction etc.) suggests that there are problems or limitations with mainstream design; for example, design’s affiliation with the market and the prevailing demands of consumption and innovation. These are the (normative) designer’s coordinates of reality: in practice experienced as constraints that limit the potential of design to make substantive change (see Future nudge). Designing for a carefully crafted diegesis can provide new constraints, in turn facilitating new solutions.

From Crap Futures: exploring-energy-futures-through-design-fiction

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When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn’t write it down fast enough. Once you’ve said to yourself, “But I’m not using my physics in my house,” or “I’m not using my ecology in my garden, I’ve never applied it to what I do,” it’s like something physical moves inside your brain. Suddenly you say, “If I did apply what I know to how I live, that would be miraculous!” Then the whole thing unrolls like one great carpet. Undo one knot, and the whole thing just rolls downhill.

Bill Mollison in interview with Alan AtKisson at In Context. Permaculture: Design For Living Permaculture is more than a new way of gardening - it’s a sustainable way to live on planet Earth

An Interview With Bill Mollison, by Alan AtKisson

(via protoslacker)

This is such a good read.

There’s no other book about design for living. Don’t you think that’s eerie? I mean, how can we possibly expect to survive if we don’t design what we’re doing to be bearable?

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don’t just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong. For example, if you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they’ll die in the next fire, or where you can’t get water to them. Or they’ll sit in all the dam sites. Or they’ll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

But then, at least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you’ve got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

Let’s get back to permaculture. What’s your current best definition of it?

“You could say it’s a rational man’s approach to not shitting in his bed.”

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Ben O’Connor vs. Kim Newall @ K’Road First Thursdays Auckland

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TPA81 temperature array sensor from Arduino into a Processing visualisation (of me walking past and standing still). Code and setup example from the kind minds at Robot Electronics.

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Candy Tartan

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