thinking out loud

the work that I do often feels like I'm building some elaborate gizmo with a little computer inside that will just make a needle point north, when you could in fact just use a compass to point north. and maybe there's something enlightening about the process of using technical system to try to unearth understandings and modes of perception about the environment that we've lost or have been with us for a long time. perhaps the technology is not necessary, but it is a process and a way for us to get reacquainted with our perceptions and understanding of the environment

designing the objects and interactions we wish existed

a thought about ceremonies

visual histogram thought

Windows

Useless Machine

The French theorist Henri de Saint-Simon proposed a triumvirate in which 'the artist’s role was to envision the future of society, while the scientist would analyze the feasibility of visionary ideas, and the industrialist would devise administrative techniques for putting them into practice.'

And what a great life it would be if, every morning, every object in the house could be made anew by our hands, could “issue” from our hands.