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say hello to my new office, the door of which faces the door of my current office (across the hallway) so it’s going to be an easy move (already underway in fact) this one is at the rear of the building looking out onto lots of trees and a great view of the city centre & the ‘rijksmuseum’ in the distance, plus i get to hear birds singing happily all day instead of car alarms and traffic… i always find that reshuffling from time to time is a healthy thing to do, only the coffee we serve hasn’t changed, see you soon..

m / 13-06-2011 12:52 - tags: ,  

you ad could not be here

…according to reports, Google is developing the technology to enable them to start selling advertising space on real life billboards and posters in Street View. Google registered a new patent which describes how it plans to identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards and give advertisers the ability to replace these images with their own ads…

further evidence of the shift from a physical to a virtual world and of course, the weird world we live in… the lawyers are already sharpening their knives it seems

…as cool as this is, it raises a number of potential questions which I’m sure will have to be dealt with some point in the near future, especially if this technology can be used for turn-by-turn navigation and Augmented Reality applications. Who actually owns the real life space once it’s online/mobile?…

m / 13-06-2011 09:58 - tags: , , ,  

hide and seek

a huge billbard photograph of a minor local celebrity draped on the fort walls in the moat at the ‘naarden fotofestival’ was stolen this weekend, personally i find it a bit odd that they didn’t take that fantastic logo instead…

m / 13-06-2011 09:41 - tags: ,  

arti farti

amsterdam art society/club ‘arti et amicitiae’ has an exhibition of it’s latest (new) members starting next saturday, featuring amongst others my mate mister ‘martyn f. overweel’, the show runs till the 10th of july

m / 13-06-2011 09:29 - tags: , , ,  

temporary ‘dingen’

i attended the best dutch books ceremony last friday in the stedelijk museum, we all received a special customised ‘winners’ version of this years catalogue, very competently made this year by ‘niels schrader’, there was some less good news too which i hadn’t yet heard: designer and curator ‘maarten jongema’ sadly, recently passed away after a serious illness… see here an obituary from fellow-designer harmen liemburg

in the books introduction text i read that my personal entry this year (and the one i was really hoping to get selected): the ‘façade’ recycled book, was a candidate till the last minute; i.e. it ‘very nearly’ made the selection…oh well (pictured above and see also this related post)

for the two ‘dingen’ books which did make the 2010 selection see these related posts here, here, and here, plus last years’ award-winning one here

m / 13-06-2011 09:17 - tags: ,