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GOSH (Grounding Open Source Hardware) in Banff

A global meetup, across all disciplines- creative, strategic, user experience based and business-minded. The Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Summit at The Banff Centre serves to bring together the many and disparate makers, producers, theorizers, and promoters of physical objects that come to life under open and distributed models. (From the website) This Banff New [...]
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Makerlab News! Anselm + BNMI + Mountains (Mt. Rundle)

Anselm moved to Banff to work at the Banff New Media Center. He is the lead mobile engineer in the Advanced Mobile Research Lab. The ART Mobile Lab is a research initiative created in 2005 to enable research into mobile and location-based media design, art, technology and cultures of use. In particular, they focus on [...]
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Paige’s MFA Exhibit is up

Hey everyone I am going to try hard and pick back up with my life now that school is done! I wanted to post some links to images from the final exhibit since I just got them. I did my final thesis work on interaction design, the cyborgian state of our existence and socio-techno interaction in daily [...]
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@kissmehere and there! and there! and there! Kissing Booths FTW!

Last night at makerlab we were talking about dating sites a bit - commenting on how strange it was that they didn't leverage social networks. For fun today I threw a fun idea together as a test of how to make dating more social. It isn't terribly serious but perhaps amusing. I like to combine talk with praxis. Here it is:
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OMG I fell off the planet

Hey all, So I have not been posting quite as much as I would like to these days because I have been spending all of my time working on my final paper for school. I would love to say that I had something extra special to post here but I don’t. Instead I will post some exceprts [...]
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Friday Night/Sat Night Music::: Sir Head Fake Selector & Sir Rolling Dollar Selector & Gentleman Matthew

Musical Masterpiece :: Downtown Librarian plays Uptempo Soul and African Funk Friends – This weekend, if you find yourself near: Valentine’s [232 SW Ankeny PDX] Friday 1/23 Tiga [1465 NE Prescott PDX] Saturday 1/24 Drop in and have a drink. Matthew Yake will be spinning records 9pm – Close at both locations. He was kind enough to send me this Youtube Video [...]
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Gary Wiseman writes on Socially Activated Art and the Role and Place of Art

Coming In From The Cold: Towards the Demarginalization of Creative Practice The Artistic Method: Self Reflexivity In Socially Activated Art Gary Wiseman at IGLOO Gallery December 2008 ‘The creative individual, previously known as ‘Artist’ has an unprecedented opportunity to step out of the margins of society into the mainstream. This creative individual may choose to use his/her creative, [...]
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