acme-ideashttp://acmeideas.com/readable/the acme ideas blogen-US2012-02-06T04:17:53ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)2011 instagrammedhttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/12/31/2011-instagrammed.htmljeremyet2011-12-31T21:23:31Zinstagram lifelogging

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Seconds Of Beauty - 1st round compilation from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

Lovely collection of one second movies compiled from Mont Blanc's One Second Movie competition.

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Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

 

]]>Sentient City Survival Guidehttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/11/2/sentient-city-survival-guide.htmljeremyet2011-11-02T22:59:41Zcities technology 

Sentient City Survival Kit - Quick Start Guide from mark shepard on Vimeo.

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]]>Three reasons to keep this site goinghttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/10/1/three-reasons-to-keep-this-site-going.htmljeremyet2011-10-01T22:47:36Z1) This persuasive Guardian article which uses a variation of the argument that if you're not paying for something you are the product being sold. The something here is web presence and as Adrian Short says, 'when you own a domain you're a first class citizen of the web'. Being a first class citizen of the web sounds like a pretty good thing to be, doesn't it?

However,

The things you can say and do that are likely to be seen and used by any significant number of people will be the things that Facebook, Google and Twitter are happy for you to say and do. You can do what you like on your own website but you'll probably be shouting into the void.

2) this segues nicely into Ben's exhortation to 'blog like no-one's reading' 

and lastly

3) I'm paying some money every month for hosting of this site. Might as well use it.

So, there we go. Blogging like no-one's reading, being a citizen of the web and not throwing money into the wind. Three good reasons to keep Acme Ideas alive.

 

 

 

]]>Texturizinghttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/6/26/texturizing.htmljeremyet2011-06-26T20:35:56Zdata kevin kelly lifelogging textures

Identity is our mystery. We have no idea who we are - what humans are, and what humans are good for. What it means to be male or female. What it means to be an American or Chinese or French is all in flux. On facebook where do we end and our friends' identity begin? Are we machines or something spiritual, or even supernatural, something unmeasurable? Self-tracking and the quantified self movement are contemporary probes into this mystery, part of our feeble attempt to figure out who we are -- as individuals and a collective. Quantifying your self is an act of self assertion. All this attention is not a narcissist adoration of the self, but a self-definition in an age of great uncertainty about who we are.

Kevin Kelly on self-tracking

It's undoubtedly true that lifelogging, self-tracking and lifestreaming are behaviours that are here to stay and will take more real form in the coming years. Kevin Kelly's assertion above struck me by the supposed ambition that lies behind the behaviour. I'm not sure that for everyone who lifecasts or self-tracks the quest for self-awareness is the primary motivation. On this blog there are a few examples of self-tracking. KK's piece made me question why I feel the need to collect and record these moments and personally perhaps it's more about capturing the texture of my time here rather than the data.

So I'm glad to be testing out a camera which, if its promises are kept, will make the unconscious capturing of data and texture, well, a walk in the park. It's array of sensors are primed to trigger a photograph whenever an interesting change in condition (temperature, light, gps coordinates etc) occurs, over the day capturing a stream of images which should provide a great deal of noticing and texture to everyday life.

Here's a film I put together with the results from a couple of hours of wearing the camera this weekend - image quality and sensor fine tuning will, I am assured, be improved when the camera comes to market later in the year.

PS keen viewers will notice the presence of a number of shots featuring an iPhone. I was Instagramming, honest!

]]>The City and The Cityhttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/5/30/the-city-and-the-city.htmljeremyet2011-05-30T13:21:22Zlondon old vs new photocyclingHome alone on the bank holiday I took my new bike out for a spin through the City of London stopping to take some pictures. I think I might have gone overboard on the colour picker though ;-)

]]>Pictures saying many wordshttp://acmeideas.com/readable/2011/2/20/pictures-saying-many-words.htmljeremyet2011-02-20T17:35:28ZIt's been far too long since I posted here. My new job has taken lots of my time and energy and things have been busy on the home front also.

But my blogging hiatus has happily coincided with my instagram usage and so, in lieu of a proper post here are the last four months of happenings and locations, instagrammed for (mainly my) viewing pleasure.

 

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BBC Knowledge - Honk If You're Human from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.

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