smART Meters | Earprint Productions Meter Obsession by Jason Reinier I have been obsessed with meters, water and gas, for many years. I first noticed meters when I was at Colorado College. When I was a freshman taking an electronic music course, we created “musique concrete” pieces from tape recordings. We went out into the world with just our ears and went on walks, listening to different sounds. My First Encounter On one very special walk with my professor, Steven Scott, we stopped and listened to a gas meter. The Original Earprint I discovered the meter above years later in Oakland, California and gave it a listen. This was the first “earprint” I had ever really noticed and it was this meter and the resulting earprint that was the inspiration for Earprint Productions. Here’s one of my favorites: Meters as messengers of the underworld I became interested in systems – I was reading The Way Things Work and Underground by David McCauley and was fascinated by the systems for treating water, gas and sewage.
Local Project – Art Space New York OpenBlock SerenA | chance encounters in the space of ideas Landscape Architecture « Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city. The end result of found nature and design interventions adds up to an urban biodiversity network. Discovering Wildpoints The small presence of uninvited nature in the city – where wild grasses and plants come up through the cracks, providing food and shelter for insects, birds, and other small urban animals, are almost never created intentionally. These sites are reservoirs of genetic diversity as well as habitats for uncounted species. What is biodiversity in the city? Biodiversity can have many interpretations. We define biodiversity in the city as the network of urban biotopes where indigenous species of plants and animals thrive, and natural ecological processes occur with or without the influence of humans. 4 New Biotopes for Urban Sites Results and Benefits
PowerPivot | Microsoft BI Projet Colibri | Plateforme Collaborative de Gestion Urbaine 9 Ways To Deliver An Award Winning Speech Word of mouth marketing can be one of the most powerful marketing tactics. Think about it - it costs nothing and every person who hears about your product is a potential genuine referral. Sometimes you are asked to give business presentations to a group of people interested in your ideas. It can be very difficult to put your ideas into words that your listeners will relate to and appreciate. I have discovered that there is a checklist of guidelines. I need to make sure my listeners are able to follow along with me and capture my enthusiasm as I deliver a speech selling my ideas. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. o Identify the root cause for the fumbling. o Next replace the root fear with its polar opposite. o Think positively! 7. 8. 9. And that’s all there is to it! Article By: Daniel Massicotte Checkout this award winning speech.
Yes, That’s a nice Urban Data Visualization. So what? Report of City_Play_Data – Expert Meeting on Digital Media and ‘Ownership’ in the City As you may have noticed, over here at the Mobile City we have recently shifted the focus of our program somewhat. Rather than addressing the role of digital media in cities in general, we decided to focus on a number of issues that we feel are particularly urgent in urban design. One of them we have labeled ‘ownership’. For us ‘ownership’ is about bringing about a sense of engagement with urban life and providing citizens with opportunities to (collaboratively) act. How can we design or employ digital media in such a way that they may contribute to such a sense of ‘ownership’? We are very happy to address this question in a partnership with Virtueel Platform who has asked us to conduct a study on this issue (to be published at some point later this year). Design Approaches Public Space For Coleman and Goldkrand, Public space is (in my own words) about creating places of contact or zones of friction.
Introducing the PivotViewer Control for Silverlight The Silverlight PivotViewer control is now available. Jesse Liberty and I have been working closely with the Live Labs team to help transition the PivotViewer control out as a real product for the developer community. I'm excited to say that the control is no longer a lab project, but is now out and available for developers! My congratulations to the team; they worked really hard to get this control out and into your hands. Of course, it wouldn't be any good to launch a cool control like this without giving you guys everything you need to get started, so let's take a look at what else we put together for you. New Site Content As part of the launch, we've added a new PivotViewer learning section to Silverlight.net. In addition to the overview information and API documentation, you'll find a multi-page deep-dive into how to use the control. In addition, Jesse's working on some great tutorials and examples, so be sure to check them out on his blog and on Silverlight.net New Forum
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