Author: Marcus Trimble
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Terrainspotting
The increasing fidelity with which our little planet is being mapped has me thinking about a new class of explorer and cartographer that is beginning to emerge. Photosynth, the tech demo that trawls image sharing websites for geographically tagged photos and then pieces them together to form pseudo 3D models of popular tourist destinations, is…
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The last 100 days of links from this website
A work in progress: The last 100 days of links from this website. There are some css kinks to be worked through, but you get the idea: wall of noise etc.
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Archigram T-shirts
Archigram T-shirts. Via City of Sound.
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Componetry
The process of assembly of most things means that we do not often see the pieces that make up the whole. Assembled rapidly on the production line, they arrive on the shelf and then our homes as complete, ideally seamless objects. Those produced by Apple go out of their way to diminish the role of…
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Colour palettes of the Olympic Games Branding
Colour palettes of the Olympic Games branding over the years. Montreal is the best, Sydney one of the worst. Also of interest — the diminishing importance of the athlete over the years overtaken by stylised graphics.
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Justice Gleeson on Privacy
Departing Chief Justice of the High Court, Justice Gleeson has used his departing statement to comment on the changing notion of privacy: “I used to think that having a telephone conversation was normally private. But you can’t walk down the street without hearing a number of telephone conversations, some of them with people speaking loudly…