Assembling

Trousers designed by Rei Kawakubo

A little while ago: A nice saturday morning worth plenty of thoughts – or how fashion design, algerian rock, electro accousmatic music, shadows and pantomime are related (somehow) to magics; these are a couple of thoughts noted after the concert at Union Chapel ‘Ecosonic ensemble with Ouija Board’.

Read more: Fashion Design, Rock the Casbah and Ecosonic Ensemble.

It has been 4 years now – that Electronest started with Åbäke to design and redesign the Kitsuné website together on top of the former very first version.

And this post is a bit of the story behind this ongoing design experiment…

Read more: A 4 years adventure: Kitsune website, design and development

A while ago at Electronest, Pierre and I discussed about an application which could use the clipboard to create a book. Since this, the idea received a bit of attention from my graphic designers friends and this evening it came to my mind that this bit of code was in fact quite close from what Internet was supposed to be if for some reason it didn’t take the path of the World Wild Web, but the path from Xanadu.

Read more: ‘Copy, Paste and Meta’ – part 1

There is something in this picture – the loose quality in the darks, the neon light reflected on the window bus which give some sort of accelaretion, the urban sunset with the machine like japanes silhouette – which fit both content: the artistically engineered work of Jean Prouvé and the time passing by that you try to control.

Read more: Back from downtown: Jean Prouvé and the Time

We went with Amandine to the opening of Jean Prouvé at the Design Museum kindly invited by Daniel Charny (by the way, Daniel has a new website modeled after the former one, but with some Electronest‘s magics)

Read more: Jean Prouvé was a hacker

Recently I have been asked to create a non obstrusive interface for a kind of GTD – a 5 items list time elapsed representation.

I decided to use this a sa pretext to teach myself a bit of Java and to pull the gears on Processing – much more suitable for people like me to learn and develop things.
This was also the occasion for a brilliant personnal discovery:

The Time

Read more: Time (mis-)conception and discoveries

I wish this roof would be connected to parameters.

Read more: I wish this ceiling would be connected to parameters.

It sounds pessimistic, i know – but facing reality is sometimes good to draw a better future:

The internet as we know it is about to die.

Read more: A possible future without Net Neutrality

If I’m safe now, able to write down my thoughts and almost ready to go back to my wonderful job – it’s first thing thanks to Amandine whose presence has been of great and essential help during those tough times, when I had to take some decisive decisions concerning my health and my life to come, those decisions which were hard to take but that are now proving to be the right ones.

Read more: Electronically empowered heart – some news