foomandoonian
Hi, I'm Foomandoonian. You may know me from the internet.
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LUKE!!! You’re a siss!!
hahah oh man, mattresses on top of boxes? “How to make Star Wars on the cheap”
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Spudnik: The Steampunk Mr. Potato Head. (via.)
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The true power of Daleks revealed! “Robots in Disguise” t-shirt, $9 from @teefury. I’d buy it if it weren’t a gray shirt....
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3 posts tagged hyperlocal
Alan Moore on being neither global nor local, but ‘lobal’
Everywhere is both local and also global. It’s that kind of world. We’re hooked up in a way we were not hooked up previously. The world has changed. Now, we all have an individual neighborhood and locale, but we are also bombarded by information from every other neighborhood and locale in the world. We’re connected in a different way. I wanted to deal with what is basically my neighborhood, the area which I was born in, and treat it exactly the same as other people’s neighborhoods. Yes, the neighborhood I grew up in is still a particularly distressed neighborhood, but there’s one in every town in every country, I’m sure. There is a wrong side of the tracks.
via wired.com
Don’t know why I’m so fascinated with the concept of local recently.
Boundaries - a tool to visualise the shape of neighbourhoods
Boundaries uses Flickr geotagging data to draw local area boundaries on a map. It’s creator, Tom Taylor, says:
Flickr understands that places are more than unique geographic identifiers; that they are mental models people use to identify with location. Moreover, they are fluid and opinionated, varying based on a number of parameters such as context, ambition and personal background. In true wisdom of the crowds style, Flickr use the combined selections of their thousands of photographers to compute the shape of these places.
I think it’s a wonderful idea. Tom has several other fun projects, including the Flickr game Noticings, and a handy micro-printer you could use for to-do lists or hyperlocal news print outs. He also has a talk up on http://www.dolectures.com/ where he explores more ideas. Cardiff regions on Boundaries.
