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Sunday, September 18th, 2011

LED Lights Make Augmented Vision a Reality

www.elementalled.com/leducation/blog/innovative-technology/led-lights-make-augmented-vision-a-reality/

 

“University of Washington researchers have figured out how to implant semitransparent red and blue LED lights in contact lenses, for the purpose of receiving and displaying data in sharp visual images and video. This means wearers will literally be able to watch TV or view photos that are projected directly onto their eyeballs.”

 

– How will this new way of perceiving change the way that people watch the Olympics in the future?


Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Megastructure reloaded

Megastructure Reloaded

“Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban planning. Till now, however, there has been no exhibition dealing explicitly with megastructuralists’ vision. MEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED seeks for the first time to show them in context. Aside from Archigram, Constant, Friedman, the radical Florence groups Superstudio and Archizoom, whose designs at the end of the 1960s constituted an ironic response to the megastructuralists, will be included. The exhibition is not intended as a documentary representation; instead the megastructuralists are to be tested for their currency and relevance for the problems of contemporary urban design and mega cities. We will focus on the connection between architecture and visual art, as well as on actual architectonic and urban-design issues.”

 


Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Cities, Surveillance, Film

“Honeywell has already started helping the police to set up an elaborate computer monitoring system to analyze feeds from indoor and outdoor cameras in one of Beijing’s most populated districts, where several Olympic sites are located.”

“All of this also highlights the increasingly intense overlap between film production, the political administration of urban space, and the private security industry, whereby three otherwise unrelated fields become nearly indistinguishable from one another – or, perhaps more accurately phrased, they become erstwhile partners in pursuit of different goals. “

at BLDGBLOG


Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Cedric Price, Fun Palace, Potteries and other projects

 

“From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price”

Canadian Center for Architecture collection and archive

Design Museum

Mute

 


Friday, September 16th, 2011

RPI in the Olympics

This is from the 1948 Olympics in London where lacrosse was played as a "demonstration sport".

From the IOC Report:

The organisation of the Lacrosse Demonstration was carried out by the English Lacrosse Union and this body invited a team from the United States of America to play a match at the Empire Stadium against an All-England Lacrosse side. The visiting team was the Rensselaer Polytechnic of Troy, New York State. The U.S.A. team had carried out a tour in Great Britain, and concluded this with the fitting finale of the match at Wembley. The modern game of lacrosse is believed to have originated from a tribal game known as ” ball game ” of the North American Indians and was brought to England by the settlers in Canada in the 18th or 19th Century. It is played not only in Great Britain, but also in Australia and Canada and, most prominently of all, in the United States of America.

The teams at Wembley proved to be excellently matched, and the resulting game was both close and exciting, in addition to being one of the best exhibitions of lacrosse ever seen in England. During the first quarter (the game consists of four 20-minute periods), Whittaker opened the scoring for the English side, but the Americans soon asserted themselves and went away to a 4-1 lead with goals by Coleman, Myers (2) and Wood. Before the end of the period, however, Little had reduced the margin. An Exciting Finish There was no such goal-scoring rush in the second and third periods, a single goal by Wilson, which reduced the margin to one goal, in the second period, being the only score. The English team, however, turned on full pressure at the start of the final twenty minutes and first Whittaker equalised with a brilliant goal, and then Dennis put them ahead. It seemed likely that they would hold their lead, for the defence was now closely knit, but, in a most exciting finish, Myers put the Americans on level terms with only three minutes left for play.


Friday, September 16th, 2011

Olympic Venue Layout Typology

 

Our current research involves us mapping every venue from every Summer Olympic Games. From there we can layer information such as infrastructure and population density to understand the various factors which drive the location of different venues. We are also looking at establishing a catalog of venue layouts. For instance, Helsinki in 1952 shows a central layout with single direct routes to venues outside of the immediate city. Mexico City in 1968 shows an interconnected web of venues, while the upcoming 2012 Games in London show how the Games have grown to envelope an entire country.


Friday, September 16th, 2011

Great original source documents

http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm

 

Here’s a great site that has links to the original IOC reports concerning each and every Olympic Game. These are the documents that every Wikipedia article sites. They are incredible as source documents. Especially interesting is to critically evaluate the way each nation characterizes (or tries to) their approach to planning and executing the games. A great example is Stockholm in 1912: organizers called for a scaled down Olympics which was less expensive and expansive than the 1908 London Games, but when the Swedes tried to pare down the number of events, countries who were particularly strong in those events lobbied for their inclusion. In the end, the games were larger and more expensive, but not necessarily because of the Swedes.

 


Friday, September 16th, 2011

GAMES EVOLUTION [olympic sports]

GAMES evolution

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Sports Journalism as Insight to Bias and Perspective in Event Coverage

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Sports journalism seems to be the journalism which accepts its story-telling roles and partnerships with advertising and entertainment. Yet it still suggest that cultural and moral values are alluded in sports reporting.
The implication that sports reporting emphasizes storytelling and plot over impartial truth telling  isparticularly interesting in contrast to other forms of journalistic endeavors . For sports journalists, there seems to be a sense that what is being reported is of personal interest, which knowingly or unknowingly creates a tone in their writing. Sports journalism seems to go further then coverage and analysis, it perpetuates the need for personal interaction and involvement in the “big picture”. 
This form of information retrieval and distribution is particularly fit for world events such as the World Cups, the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, the Tour de France, etc. It openly presents a speculative narrative with particular known biases which are used to the advantage of the writer and reader. An American journalist reporting about the Olympics would be report to the american people with an American biases, yet there is the distinct attempt to locate/discover the larger understanding of the event in context with the world and its parts (other countries, societies, and/or cultures).

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Event/Coverage/Audience Cycle

Event coverage is naturally subject to bias. Here, “The Event” is seen not as a single node from which coverage is emanating from, but a cyclical event from which future events, perception, and coverage change due not only to each other, but cycles of events in the past as well. Thus, in order to understand an event and resultant reactions, you must understand previous events and reactions. Furthermore, it becomes important to speculate how an event and coverage will affect future events and coverage.

Inherent in this speculation is the relationship between (1) the Event, (2) what those people or groups providing the news coverage think (generally and specifically about event), (3) What is actually reported as the event news coverage, and (4) what the audience of the news coverage think about.

As this drawing suggests, the way something (in this case, the event) is covered is linked to how the audience thinks through the control coverage has on what the audience thinks about.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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