Here’s the presentation I gave in Copenhagen last week regarding my Physical Virus project. The project is an architectural conversation about invasive species; the first step is to create a ballet performance using ants, using a series of modified printers to print pheromones and influence ant behaviour. This presentation shows briefly the main stages involved in the execution of the project, a few influences, and some videos pilfered from various places.
You can also see the first batch of ants on flickr here.
We spent two days at Auto Italia South East making a scale skeletal model of the Open_Sailing craft prototype…it took the best part of twenty hours to build, two hours to photograph, and ten minutes to destroy.
I just found out that there’s a documentary about the Xixuau-Xiparina Reserve. It’s a fantastic cause, and a brilliant place. The work that Chris Clark and the Amazon Association have done is incredible: empowering a whole community with education and healthcare, internet access (and a football pitch!) plus creating a 500,000 acre protected rainforest reserve in one of the most biodiverse locations on the planet. If you can do anything to help the reserve, please do!
The internet. Big. Useful. Intangible. Unintelligible. Gosh, you’re using it right now. But how did it come about?
This video uses beautifully bold, simple graphics to explain the overly technical aspects of networked computing that we all take for granted in a logical and concise way. The voiceover sounds like a proper documentary, like you’d watch at school.
