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“Technological Disobedience”


Not to lift posts from VBS/Vice, but the video of artist and designer Ernesto Oroza is worth watching if you’re at all interested in DIY culture and technology.

From VBS -
In the 1970s, a group of scientists and mechanics inspired by Che Guevara formed the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers (ANIR) as a way of organizing and strengthening this homebrew culture, uniting the ethos of the hacker with the needs of an isolated economy and the call of a socialist revolution. Oroza showed us his meticulous collection of these machines, which he has contextualized as art pieces in a movement he calls “Technological Disobedience.”

Debra Baxter

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Debra Baxter, Crystal Brass Knuckles (I am going to realign your chakras motherf*****), 2009

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Robonaut Has a Twitter Account

NASA’s robot will be destroying boarding the ISS soon.

It would be interesting to hear the designers of R2 discuss the project, I wonder how they came up with the face plate design.

Elad Barouch - See Saw Bike

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See Saw Bike has a clever accompanying postcard design as well, see below.

Via Found Shit

Roll Your Own Geospatial App

Paul Smith and A List Apart, the venerable interactive design publication, have a fantastic article discussing open source online mapping tools. In projects involving maps and related information I often wish for more control over the visual interface than what Google Maps provides. It’s nice to see some alternatives exist.

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