18
Apr
2008
codifying architecture
This is another piece I wrote for my design studio, it’s got a missing reference so if anyone knows the answer then I’ll buy you a mars bar.
it ends on a bit of a grumpy note, but i could have just carried on ranting for hours. Read the rest of this entry »
9
Apr
2008
educate[ed/or]
I’m starting to find that teaching is actually really hard. I think that when I started that I was just terrified that I’d run out of stuff to say, or that I’d look like an idiot. I remember the panic when my first hour long lecture, which i was convinced would over run ended after 35 minutes.
I’m much calmer now these days, but begin in the situation where I’m teaching, and being taught at the same academic level is still a very strange situation to be in.
The main struggle I have now is about the nuances of teaching, I feel that I’m got to the point now where I can see that there is a huge amount of stuff I don’t know. Not so much about the subject, but more about the best way to engage other people, and make them think that the thing that I thought was worth learning about enough to get to this level is exciting enough to want to learn it too.
8
Apr
2008
thought process
I’ve been breaking all my own rules, I’ve just been jumping into trying to write this program without really thinking about how it’ll all go together.This’ll hopefully make it clear.
The first thing is that the frames that the camera produces are too noisy, there are too many static blobs. Things like a puddle, a bollard, etc. will all show up as blobs and be tracked. There is a fairly simple (conceptually) way to deal with it. if you compare each frame to it’s previous one, then it’ll only show up the difference between the two (in photoshop it is called the difference blending mode). This is actually what I go so wrapped up in bit shifting for a couple of posts ago, but as it was late at night, I actually forgot to find out what it did, I was just interested in the bit I didn’t understand. Typical me. Read the rest of this entry »
1
Apr
2008
the revolution will not be microwaved
So, for those of you who I haven’t told (and as I assume that nobody else actually reads this, that’s nobody) I’m doing an elective called meals in metropolis. It examines urban agriculture and it’s implications for cities and a load of other stuff as well.
Of course being me, i haven’t read much of the stuff on the reading list, but i have just finished reading this. The revolution will not be microwaved is actually pretty good. There is a awful lot of hippy arm waving and associated corporation bashing that harks back to the bad old days of the no logo anti establishment clones, but if you can get past the fact all of this, it’s actually a very well researched book with a broad range of examples related to each ‘underground’ food movement.
There was a bit of a culture shift to deal with in understanding the motivation for a few of the topics from my perspective, but i think that’s because I’m already interested in food, so grasping how dire the monoculture practices of US supermarkets actually are was tricky.
I found somewhere to buy raw milk today which is pretty cool. i absentmindedly drank 2 litres of it over the day, and if i’d done that with pasturised milk i’d be well on the way to being dead! check this out – real milk
19
Mar
2008
musings on the nature of the antipodes
This is a bit of writing/ranting that i did in order to try and understand my view of the studio’s ideas. I’ll put up the details of the experiment in a bit.
