Balloon architectures at the speed of sound

Outside - looking worried.

Inside - ready to become a hero.

eyeful eiffel rifle tower

two hours on

eiffel tower construction

Balloon fictions

Jimmy and I had an afternoon messing around with balloons. We wanted to take the 'explosive' element of our fictional bomb and extend it into an immersive structure - an architecture at the speed of sound. Obviously we didn't attempt a detention, we wanted to see the structure and test the feeling of being surrounded in balloons. It had an amazing acoustic effect and was really quite scary, as you can see from Jimmy's face:


The idea here, is to velcro the balloons together and have individual detonators on each balloon - the control of the explosion will be handled by a computer. Jimmy suggested anthrax in each balloon, i think it maybe going too far!

Borges gets the Reiffel Tower

This was sent by a student who emailed Laura - absolutely brilliant. The Secret Miracle by Jorge Luis Borges (1944) …

The squad formed and stood at attention. Hladik, standing against the barracks wall, waited for the volley. Someone pointed out that the wall was going to be stained with blood; the victim was ordered to step forward a few paces. Incongruously, this reminded Hladik of the fumbling preparations of photographers. A big drop of rain struck one of Hladik's temples and rolled slowly down his cheek; the sergeant shouted the final order.

The physical universe came to a halt. The guns converged on Hladik, but the men who were to kill him stood motionless. The sergeant's arm eternized an unfinished gesture. On a paving stone of the courtyard a bee cast an unchanging shadow. The wind had ceased, as in a picture

Architecture at the speed of sound

If we make deconstructing green=boom architecture, we should capture it like this:

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

or like this

More Bird houses

Hmmmm.... more CCTV birdhouses, i think we need to re-think this one:

re lig ion

same derivation

as ligament


meaning sticking or bringing together..

my Latin is a little rusty but that's pretty much it.
Plugging in is next to
Godliness.

The competition

I'm not sure how i feel about this:

Thanks be to Matt

Thanks be to 0att

(This was a mistake, but perhaps it is a sign. I am inclined to leave it here.)

A religion is an organized approach to human spirituality which usually encompasses a set of narratives, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural or transcendent quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to a higher power or truth.[1] It may be expressed through prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.

And again.

Religion has been defined in a wide variety of ways. Most definitions attempt to find a balance somewhere between overly sharp definition and meaningless generalities. Some sources have tried to use formalistic, doctrinal definitions while others have emphasized experiential, emotive, intuitive, valuational and ethical factors. Definitions mostly include:

* a notion of the transcendent or numinous, often, but not always, in the form of theism
* a cultural or behavioural aspect of ritual, liturgy and organized worship, often involving a priesthood, and societal norms of morality (ethos) and virtue (arete)
* a set of myths or sacred truths held in reverence or believed by adherents

Sociologists and anthropologists tend to see religion as an abstract set of ideas, values, or experiences developed as part of a cultural matrix. For example, in Lindbeck's Nature of Doctrine, religion does not refer to belief in "God" or a transcendent Absolute. Instead, Lindbeck defines religion as, "a kind of cultural and/or linguistic framework or medium that shapes the entirety of life and thought… it is similar to an idiom that makes possible the description of realities, the formulation of beliefs, and the experiencing of inner attitudes, feelings, and sentiments.”[8] According to this definition, religion refers to one's primary worldview and how this dictates one's thoughts and actions.

From good old Wikipedia