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RSS Awareness Day

by natecooper | May 1, 2008 | culture, digital media, googlereader, internet

I guess I’m a little late today but in one of my sessions I ranted about the coolness of Google Reader so this should be just icing on the cake.

Re-Democratizing the Third Place at Brightkite Blog

by natecooper | Apr 26, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, digital media, internet

Just got my invite for brightkite.com a location based social network. I wasn’t super impressed about the network (its too small just yet) though the design looks nice and the idea promising. This little article about “the Third Place” in their blog,...

Neatorama » Blog Archive » The House(s) That Spite Built

by natecooper | Apr 25, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture

[link] Neatorama reports on dwellings built out of spite of their natural conditions, laws and or family disputes. Interesting to think about how we humans augment our environment not only out of necessity for shelter but also...

BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife

by natecooper | Apr 22, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, culture

[link] Modernist ruins

Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Curious Improvisations

by natecooper | Apr 21, 2008 | architecture, culture, photography, style

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The Commodity of © Murakami

by natecooper | Apr 19, 2008 | aesthetics, art, Brooklyn, culture, style

The first thing that strikes me about © Murakami is how blatantly familiar everything seems. Anyone accustomed to Japanese or anime culture may find © Murakami unremarkable. Life-size sculptures of transforming robots — aside from their explicit...