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A former U-20 Women's National Team midfielder for the United States, Long returns to Thorns FC for her second season after signing with the club on Jan. 31, 2013. The Long Island native has experience abroad with popular French club Paris Saint-Germain.
2014: Has started 25 consecutive regular-season games for Thorns FC dating back to the 2013 campaign ... Ranks among NWSL leaders in goals (3), shots (14) and shots on goal (7) ... Has scored a goal in three consecutive games ... Netted a 44th-minute penalty kick and added an assist in a 3-1 win over FC Kansas City April 26 ... Tallied the equalizer in the 75th minute on a penalty kick in a 1-1 draw April 19 at Sky Blue FC ... Became the fifth different Thorns FC player to score a goal in consecutive games ... Scored the game-winning goal in the team's season-opening, 1-0 road win at Houston on April 12 ... Took a team-high five shots against the Dash, putting four on frame.
2013: Finished the season ranked fourth on the team in scoring with three goals and three assists ... Tallied the game-winning goal in the 103rd minute of extra time in a 3-2 win over FC Kansas City in the NWSL semifinals on Aug. 24 ... One of three players to start all 22 regular-season matches ... Finished the regular-season ranked first on the team in minutes played (1,956) ... Recorded assists against Seattle Reign FC (Aug. 17), FC Kansas City (Aug. 4) and Washington (May 19) ... Scored a picturesque bending shot to the far upper corner, in a 3-1 win over Sky Blue FC on July 31 ... Scored her second goal of the season on June 6 against FC Kansas City, deflecting an Alex Morgan shot around the goalkeeper ... Scored her first career NWSL goal in the 35th minute of a 2-0 road win at Chicago on May 12.
2012: Signed with the New York Fury (WPSL Elite) in April 2012 and helped guide the club to a late-season run to the playoff semifinals ... Joined Paris Saint-Germain of France's Division 1 Féminine on a six-month contract from Oct. 2011-March 2012 ... Scored a brace during PSG's second-leg UEFA Women's Champions League match against FFC Frankfurt ... Registered eight goals in 16 appearances across all competitions for PSG, including four goals in 12 league matches (9 starts) ... Sustained a foot injury near the end of her contract with PSG.
2011: Signed with Sky Blue FC (WPS) and finished the season ranked second on the team in minutes played (1,575) after appearing in all 18 matches.
2010: Scored two goals in 22 appearances (all starts) during her second season with the Washington Freedom (WPS).
2009: Selected as the seventh overall pick in the 2009 WPS Draft by the Washington Freedom ... Played in 19 games (11 starts), scoring two goals during her rookie season.
INTERNATIONAL: 2010: Called into camp with the U.S. U-23 Women's National Team from Jan. 13-20, 2010 ... Named to former head coach Pia Sundhage's roster for U.S. Women's National Team matches against Sweden on July 13 and 17 ... Did not make the 18-player game-day roster for either match ... 2009: Earned a call to training camp with the U-23 Women's National Team from Dec. 13-20, 2009 ... 2007: Earned experience with the U-21 Women's National Team in the spring of 2007 ... 2006: Was a member of the U.S. U-20 Women's National Team which competed in 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Russia, falling in
COLLEGE: An NCAA national champion in 2008 at the University of North Carolina, Long was a strong addition to the Tar Heels' midfield following her transfer from Penn State after the 2006 season ... Appeared in 38 games (36 starts) during two seasons in Chapel Hill, recording eight goals and five assists (21pts) for head coach Anson Dorrance ... Began her collegiate career at Penn State University in 2005 ... In two years with the Nittany Lions, Long played in 46 games and was a two-time All-Big 10 Conference selection.
PERSONAL: Teamed up with two of the world's best players in Abby Wambach (USA) and Homare Sawa (Japan) while with the Washington Freedom … Has a younger brother, Patrick.


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1. The Chiefs don't beat themselves
Talking with Danny Parkins and Carringto Harrison on 610 Sports before the season, I said that the Chiefs are a good enough team that they need to just "not screw it up". That should be the strategy. Some might say it's a loser's mentality because you're not trying to go out and win the game ... you're just trying not to screw it up. Whatever. The Chiefs are doing exactly that. They are winning by not screwing it up. They are NOT beating themselves.
Part of not screwing it up is this important stat...
2. No turnovers can take you a long way
Through three games, no turnovers! Does that seem like an incredible stat? 15 years since...
Chiefs are the first team since the '98 Patriots to with 0 TOs in first three games. First since '00 Broncos with +9 TO margin thru 3 games.— Chase Stuart (@fbgchase) September 20, 2013
At this point last year the Chiefs were -8 in turnovers.
There's no way this stat is sustainable. The Chiefs will turn it over at some point. No question about that. But the more games KC has without turnovers, the more games they will have a great shot of winning.
This, to me, is the No. 1 stat for the KC Chiefs right now.
3. Chiefs can run it when they need to
They just haven't chosen to do that in the first three and a half quarters of the past two games.
Last week against Dallas, the Chiefs had the ball with a 1-point lead, 3:48 on the clock and on their own 16-yard line. The Chiefs fed Jamaal which kept the ball out of the Cowboys hands until 16 seconds left in the game.
This week against Philly, the Chiefs had the ball with a 7-point lead, 11:31 on the clock and the ball on their own 5-yard line. The Chiefs churned over 8 minutes (!!) off the clock with seven rushes by backs, along with shorter completions to the backs.
What happens from quarters 1-3 with this running game is a question that needs to be answered. What happens late in the fourth is not. The Chiefs burned clock when they needed to.
4. The offense will be a problem at some point
Let's just get this out of the way. Yes, the Chiefs are 3-0 so to some degree they're going something right. But anyone who watched either last night's game or watched ANY Chiefs team in the 1990s knows how this thing turns out.
The Chiefs offense needs to be more consistent. I'll give it to them for showing up when they were needed the most -- the last drive against Dallas and the last one against Philly -- but it has to be more consistent.
The final numbers on Alex Smith look good -- 22-of-35 for 273 yards -- but the Chiefs couldn't deliver points on a consistent basis.
5. Justin Houston can take over a game
Houston's line last night: 7 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 4 tackles for loss, 3 passes defensed, 4 quarterback hits and 2 fumble recoveries
He has four three-sack games in his career. He has six multi-sack games of his career. He has the ability to take over a game.
Which would you rather have, a player who gets one sack a game or a player who blows up in four games? I'd lean toward the latter.
6. Eric Fisher and the o-line is becoming an issue
Two holding calls and a couple of sacks given up. Even to the untrained eye it was clear Fisher was struggling on Thursday against the Eagles, who supposedly don't have a good defense. Alex Smith was sacked five times.
It's not just Fisher. It's the o-line as a whole. Jamaal Charles is good enough to mask some of that in the running game (well, not really early on) and Alex Smith isn't allowing the pressure to cause him to turn it over, so the Chiefs are surviving right now.
But the o-line is becoming a problem.
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"These are called hero beads, this one means a cast... This one means airlifting because I went to the hospital by helicopter once, this one is radiation," Michael explained.
Michael was a high school sophomore when he was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2011. The cancer spread from his leg, to his lung and then his brain.
In May of this year, Michael was told he only had a couple of weeks to live.
"During chemo therapy it was very though. I was getting sick with the fevers," said Michael.
Six months after doctors recommended stopping all treatment and sending Michael to a hospice, Michael is alive and fighting. "I'm not finished yet, I'm not ready to go any time soon. I have so much I want to do," Michael told FOX 11.
His parents aren't giving up either, they got a 22nd opinion followed by proton radiation to kill the brain tumors and it appears the treatment is working. You can see the fresh scars on Michael's head after doctors removed the dead tumors.
But now fighting Michael's cancer isn't the family's only battle. "Because they might feel the cancer is metastasizing, it's repeating over and over and over again they denied the approval for the treatment," said Henry Molinar, Michael's Dad. They filed an appeal but in the meantime treatments must go on.
"You just continue fighting and never give up," said Maria Giraldo, Michael's mom.
Henry Molinar doesn't work, he takes care of his son24/7. The family depends in large part, on fund raisers like the one at Chick-Fil-A where the restaurant donated the 20% of the proceeds from customers who mentioned Michael's name.
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Nancy Benoit was born on May 21, 1964. Before entering the world of wrestling, she was married to Jim Daus. After divorcing him, she married wrestling star Kevin Sullivan. She divorced Kevin Sullivan in 1997 and married Chris Benoit in 2000. Chris and Nancy had a son named Daniel. On June 25, 2007, the bodies of Nancy, Chris, and Daniel were found by police in their Atlanta home.
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In the early '80s, Nancy got her start in the business by appearing in wrestling photo shoots and by selling wrestling programs for the local wrestling organization in Florida. In 1984, she made her wrestling debut in Florida Championship Wrestling as Fallen Angel. She was a part of Kevin Sullivan's Army of Darkness. In 1985, she married Kevin Sullivan.
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Her team of Doom failed to take out the Steiner Brothers and she fired them after they lost their masks in a match. She then set her sights on WCW Champion Ric Flair and spent several months in 1990 as his valet. At the time, Ric was also a member of the legendary Four Horsemen. A few months later, she left WCW and rejoined Kevin Sullivan on the independent wrestling circuit.
Woman appeared in ECW in 1993 where she managed Kevin Sullivan and the Tazmaniac (current ECW announcer Taz) to the tag team championship. When Kevin left for WCW, Woman went on to manage the Sandman. She led him to both the ECW World and Tag Team Championships. With Sandman, she had the job of putting a lit cigarette or beer in his mouth when he was in trouble. Like Popeye eating spinach, this gave him tremendous energy.
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When she returned to WCW, her husband was a booker in the company. Woman quickly aligned herself with Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan. She turned on Randy and realigned herself with Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen. While she was aligned with the Horsemen, the group was feuding with Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom.
Real Life and Wrestling Collide:
While with the Horsemen, Woman began to focus her attention on Chris Benoit. The on-screen romance booked by her husband actually came to pass. Chris Benoit feuded with Kevin Sullivan and in both real-life and on the show, she supported Chris Benoit. In 1997, she divorced Kevin Sullivan and left the business. One of the only times fans saw her after this was in 2004, when she joined Chris in the ring after he won the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XX.


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Four women arrested after Hampshire pub brawl
10:37am Wednesday 12th February 2014 in News
Four women have been arrested after a brawl in a Hampshire pub.
Police were called to the punch up around the pool table area of the Portsbridge pub in Cosham.
Officers have now appealed for witnesses to the fight in the pub in Portsmouth Road at 12.10am on Saturday.
A 39-year-old man and two women in their twenties were arrested on suspicion of affray.
Meanwhile a 16-year-old girl was also arrested on suspicion of using threatening and abusive language.
All four have been bailed until March, 10, 2014 pending further enquiries.
Anyone with information can contact Portsmouth CID at Fratton Police Station by phoning 101 and quoting crime reference 44140045929.
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But report says two women in their twenties, a 16 year old girl and a 39 yr old man..... have I misread?
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How a team motivates itself can go a long way in determining whether it will achieve success or suffer failure in today's NFL, Eric Edholm writes.
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Jimmy Graham caught seven passes for 146 yards and two TDs to help the Saints hand the Falcons their first loss, 31-27, on Sunday.
Key matchup: Falcons QB Matt Ryan vs. Saints pass defense
In today's Key Matchup, we take a look at the challenge awaiting the Saints' pass defense in Week 10.
Falcons swap fullbacks
The Falcons brought back FB Mike Cox and released FB Lousaka Polite.
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Falcons place OG Reynolds on I.R.
The Falcons placed OG Garrett Reynolds on injured reserve and signed OG Phillipkeith Manley to the active roster.
NFC South Spin cycle: Saints defense still needs to tighten up
It's all smiles in the NFC South after the Saints, Falcons, Panthers and Buccaneers each earned a victory in Week Nine.
Falcons see progress from MLB Dent
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Falcons hang on to beat Cowboys, stay undefeated
Julio Jones 129 receiving yards and the Falcons beat the Cowboys 19-13 on Sunday night to extend their run as the NFL's only unbeaten team.
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The Atlanta Falcons activated Peters from the reserve injured list Friday.||||||| Peters, a third-round draft pick in 2010, has started 30 of 31 career games for Atlanta. He has been sidelined since May because of a stress fracture in his left foot. Peters is likely to work behind Peria Jerry when the Falcons (6-0) visit Philadelphia (3-3) on Sunday.
Peters, a starter the last two seasons, returned for limited activity Monday in his first practice this season.||||||| Peters, on the reserve injured list with a stress fracture in his left foot, will be eligible to make his season debut on Sunday at Philadelphia.
The Atlanta Falcons placed starting defensive tackle Corey Peters on the injured reserve list and waived third string quarterback John Parker Wilson on Sunday.||||||| Peters missed all of training camp and preseason with a left foot injury. The earliest Peters can return is Oct. 28 at Philadelphia. He must sit out the first six games. Peters, a third-round pick from Kentucky in 2010, started 30 of his 31 games over the past two years. Peria Jerry is starting at nose tackle to replace Peters, who has 73 tackles, four sacks, one interception, one fumble recovery and three passes defensed in his career.
Atlanta Falcons coach Mike Smith said Monday that Peters will not participate this week when the Falcons practice this week in Jacksonville and play the Jaguars in a preseason game on Friday.||||||| Peters was injured in practice Sunday and had to be carted off the field, but the team doesn't believe the knee was structurally damaged.


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From 1993 until 2010, Bryant Park was the home of New York Fashion week. For one week in February and one week in September, Bryant was covered with tents as it was transformed into a Mecca for fashion. During these two weeks each year, America's top designers gathered to show their new lines for the upcoming season. Designers who have shown at Bryant Park include Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, and so many more. For all aspiring fashion designers, the chance to show at Bryant Park was a dream come true. It meant that the designer had finally made it in the world of fashion. In 2010, New York Fashion week moved from Bryant Park to Lincoln Center. The same excitement still surrounds the event of Fashion Week, even though the new location does not hold the same history and meaning as Bryant Park had.
James Belzar's new documentary, The Tents, takes a behind the scenes look at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park. This documentary discusses the evolution of fashion week at Bryant Park. From the beginning, the audience will be able to see the struggles and triumphs of New York Fashion Week, and will understand all the work that went into making this event such a success. This documentary also gives audiences an inside look at New York Fashion Week through interviews with designers and the people who run the event. It's not all the glitz and glam you might think it is…
The Tents will premiere in September to kick off this year's Fashion Week.
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text: Free Things to Do With Kids 10 Just-About-Free Things to Do With Your Tot This Fall by Sarah Lipoff 9/17/12 0 Reactions 93 Shares Print 74 4 15 0 0 Turn a long weekend or a slow afternoon into tons of fun with a just-about-free adventure. With only a bit of research, you can find cool stuff to do any time of year, regardless of where you live — without breaking the bank! Along with being entertaining, these 10 just-about-free activities are perfect for the whole family, making them wonderful for bonding or enjoying after a busy week. Source: Flickr user bzo Story Time at the Library What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Head to your local library for a relaxing and educational story time with your tot. Along with regular story times, libraries often have other organized events such as craft activities and visiting authors. Best of all, story time at your local library is completely free. Source: Flickr user redjar 1 / 10 Feed the Ducks What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 All you need for this fun adventure are slices of stale bread and a spot where there are lots of birds. And throwing small bits and pieces of bread is also great for honing gross motor skills! Make the moment last by only offering your tot one slice for tossing at a time. Source: Flickr user j_lozinski 2 / 10 Free Gallery Day What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Most museums offer a free day, making it the perfect day for exploring the galleries without the ticket price. Check this site for help finding local museums in your area and the days they are offering free admission. If you are planning on heading to a museum on a free admission day, arrive early to beat the crowds. Source: Flickr user oranges and lemons 3 / 10 Host a Lemonade Stand What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 No matter the season, hosting a lemonade or bake stand is a wonderful way to spend the day or afternoon with your kids. 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Embarkation -- This was a breeze, DH has VIP status and we were on the ship in less than 30 minutes. Right after we got settled on the Lido deck the skies opened up and it poured with rain; there were bags all over the parking lot getting soaked along with passengers who were trying to hide under a flimsy canopy. It rained so hard that the starboard side of the Lido deck started flooding with water and within a few minutes was several inches deep. Finally the crew found the drain and it receded.
Cabin -- The only good thing about this cabin is the location. The Room steward was the worst we have ever had, we had no bathrobes, beach towels, Ice bucket and there was never a bottle of water in the cabin. He wouldn't put enough towels in the room even though we asked more than once in the end the towel animal dried my hair every morning. The shower flooded the bathroom every time we used it and overnight the toilet would fill up to the top with water (I learned after the first night to look before I sat) The door handle on the balcony door didn't work so the only way to lock it was at the top but we got a whistling noise when the ship rocked from the wind. When seas were active there were really loud creaking noises that kept us awake half the night. The plus is you couldn't hear the music from the lobby bar. I loved being on the Lido deck just wouldn't do that cabin again.
Ship- the ship was clean, but a little boring its sister ship the Conquest was much prettier, they stressed hand washing constantly (they did forget to mention they had Noroviris onboard a few weeks before) The Serenity area smelled terrible, sweaty bodies anyone? I don't think they clean the cushions too often, it was also rather shabby looking, the Legend has a much smaller but nicer area than the Freedom.
Food-Lido Deck Okay so whenever I read a review about the food being terrible I thought people were just a bunch of whiners... well not so much! The Lido deck was naff, the food was spicy and just plain weird more than once the bread rolls were burned on top and yet they still put them out for passengers to eat. The dessert buffet was good but the selection seams to dwindle with every cruise we take. They did have the burger bar which there was always a 30 minute wait in line for hmmm you would think that Carnival would take the hint that the rest of the buffet food was lacking... They also had a Indian food buffet yay more spicy stuff and ugh they had a sushi bar...Seams like carnival is trying to do more with less I saw a lot of head waiters\ team waiters working the Lido deck during the day and then in the Dining room at night. No wonder they were all grumpy, I would be too if I worked 12 hours a day.
The Dining Room -- we had the 8.30 sitting and after 2 nights with the most obnoxious people I have ever met (4 appetizers, 3 main courses and 2 desserts each. Yes I did say EACH!) I requested another table, I was sad to leave our head waiter Sylvia she was a sweetheart but I just couldn't take sitting for 2 1\2 hours waiting on the other people to eat. My food was stone cold by the time they were done with appetizers. THE waiters we had were so -- so there was one that always had a smile but the others pretty much ignored us until 2 days before the cruise ended, it's funny how the grumpy ones cheer up just before the cruise is over.. can you say gratuities? The selections on the menu were lacking, I don't like Fish and I am not a vegetarian so there would be maybe one dish that I could eat, thank goodness they still had the flat iron steaks, The waiters seamed over worked with the amount of tables they had and by the time we got our food it was either barely warm or cold.
Despite the bad food and dodgy cabin we did make the most of the cruise and when the sun finally came out on day 3 things got a lot better, we enjoyed most of the Islands and would go back to three of them in a heartbeat. Carnival does need to wake up and stop with the cutbacks, they are very noticeable, I know they are out to make money but they seemed more concerned with trying to get people to buy Vodka at 9am than they were the comfort of their passengers. We love cruising and we have always gone on Carnival however, losing weight on a cruise is not a good thing ?


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The games of Xbox One: Ghosts, Quantum Break, Forza 5, EA Sports, and Battlefield 4
Most of Microsoft's conference was focused on the new features they intend to bring to Xbox Live and the Xbox One operating system, but we did still get a look at a number of games that are coming to the console.
EA Sports
Microsoft's reveal carried a heavy theme on live action sports in its new television initiatives, and that also extended to their games as well. EA Sports was a major presenter here, and showed off several new advancements in their marquis titles NBA Live, Madden, Fifa, and UFC, all of which are currently being developed for Xbox One.
"All four will launch in the next 12 months," said Andrew Wilson, head of EA Sports at the presentation. "All four will be revolutionary, and all four will change the way you play."
This so-called revolutionary advance will come through EA's new Ignite engine, which we were told allows for four times more calculations per second, and ten times more animation detail.
EA's announcement was sparse with details, and mostly revolved around a sports montage that looked a great deal like every other sports game montage we've seen. However, Wilson is making big promises for the next generation of sports games.
"Our games are now living worlds, with 3D crowds, dynamic sidelines, and a daily stream of new content that impacts the game you play," he said.
EA will be providing exclusive content to Xbox One users in Fifa's Ultimate Mode, but all four games will also come to PS4. This is pretty standard stuff when it comes to EA Sports marketing: Many buzzwords, little content.
Forza 5 and Quantum Break
The first Microsoft game shown off at the conference was Turn 10's Forza 5, the latest installment in their simulation racer series. We did not get an extensive look at the game play, but it was still fun to watch because as Ben put it in his live blog, "This is straight up car porn. My God." We found out that the game will be available at launch, and will be shown at E3 in some capacity.
The creators of Alan Wake and Max Payne, Remedy Entertainment, came next with a new game called Quantum Break which we're very interested to learn more about. The trailer for the game swapped between live action scenes of a young girl talking to a 30-something-year-old woman, and action-oriented video game footage of a gun fight and a large boat crashing through a bridge.
The trailer came with the tag line: "Time is the fire in which we burn." We didn't get much detail here, but we're very interested to see what's next from this awesome developer.
Call of Duty: Ghosts
The finale of the show came with the world debut of Call of Duty: Ghosts. Ben dug into the game extensively earlier, but we also got a bit of new information here. For starters, the game is being penned by the writer of both Syriana and Traffic, Stephen Gaghan. The world of Call of Duty: Ghosts will be entirely new and wont be based on the stories or characters of the previous CoD games, and will star a hodgepodge group of soldiers from different branches of the US armed forces who were apparently scattered after America was attacked. This squad will include, refreshingly, an US army K9 unit that will be used to do things like sniff out explosives and protecting the team.
Multiplayer was teased although we weren't given much to go on besides allusions to dynamic levels that will introduce environmental events like earthquakes and floods, some of which will be player controlled.
Activision also talked a great deal about the new graphics engine in the game which will allow for things like volumetric lighting, higher polygon counts, and self-casting shadows. Much of the demonstration focused on showing off the intricacies that are now possible with the new engine including facial details, and cuts and scrapes on characters' hands.
The brief glimpses of gameplay showed off new abilities like sliding and shooting and leaning around corners. It was also announced that Activision will be offering all DLC for CoD: Ghosts for Xbox One first.
Battlefield 4
Shortly after the conference we also received word from EA that Battlefield 4 is also in development for Xbox One as well as PlayStation 4, and will launch on October 29, 2013 with a live demo available at E3 in June.
"Battlefield 4 delivers a genre-defining all-out war experience brought to life with unmatched visual and audio fidelity, superior character animations and dynamic destruction that ensures no two matches are alike," reads the press release.
Overall, this felt very much like a prelude to E3. Though we saw a handful of titles, the focus of the conference was not on games, but on Xbox One's cross-media capabilities. Most, if not every, game announcement came with the caveat that we'll be seeing more at E3. This was really just the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft said they currently have more games in production at Microsoft Games Studios right now than at any other time in their history: 15 of which are coming in the first year and 8 are new franchises.
Microsoft was likely looking to keep this reveal palatable for non-gamers, while reserving the big video game announcements for their E3 press conference on June 10.


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Putting the One Minute Manager to Work: How to Turn the 3 Secrets into Skills
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Photography > Digital Cameras > Nikon > Nikon SLR
Look into my eyes; look deep into my eyes... Oh, right - this is the Internet - You can't see my eyes. And even if you could, being the well-informed lover of photography that you are, you wouldn't need me to hypnotize you in order to believe all the wonders of Nikon's D7000 DSLR Camera, would you? No, of course you wouldn't.
Anyway, my dear reader let's cut to the chase and take a look at the wondrous D7000 in all its glory. Here's a quick hit in case you need the skinny now: 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS sensor that works together with Nikon's EXPEED 2 image processor, 1080p HD video with full time autofocus, 6FPS burst shooting, a 39-Point AF System, autofocus fine tuning, a 3" LCD display and pentaprism optical view finder, and dual SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card slots. Breathe. I repeat: breathe. (Yes, Nikon took it to the mat with the D7000)
Nikon assures us that the D7000, "concentrates primarily on image quality above all else", giving the DSLR photographer and filmmaker what the company calls "a new class of Nikon camera". So, when it came to video recording, Nikon didn't skimp out on capabilities. The D7000 boasts 1080p HD video capture, while providing a number of other recording options including manual exposure control. Capture video with the cinema quality 24fps or record Internet-friendly video at 720p in 24 or 30fps - up to 20 minutes per clip. To enhance your video utilize an optional wireless or hot shoe mounted microphone using the stereo mic input. The camera also features, full time autofocus, and Live View for video capture. When you're all done shooting and ready to share on the big screen, there's an HDMI output for one-cable connection to your HDTV.
Let's return to the camera's main focus - digital stills, shall we? We shall. The 16.2MP DX-format CMOS sensor and Nikon's proprietary EXPEED 2 image processing engine help you to make beautiful, engaging, gorgeous, and bewitching RAW, JPEG, and RAW+JPEG images. It's true! You'll have enough pixel-power to make wall-sized murals of - well, anything really - if that's your sort of thing. But even if it's not on your agenda to make photo wallpaper, the D7000's imaging capabilities give you the tools you need to create detailed, bright, and pro-quality images.
Helping the sensor and processor take those stunning photos are functions like Nikon's RGB 3D Matrix Metering System, the built-in i-TTL flash with Speedlight compatibility, and a 39 point AF system. The latter just so happens to make the D7000 compatible with over 60 NIKKOR lenses. Other helpful functions include: 14-bit analog/digital conversion, a 100-6400 ISO setting, 6 frame-per-second burst speed for up to 100 images, and numerous other features.
No matter - video or still - as mentioned above, the D7000 records to durable and easy-to-use SD/SDHC/SDXC memory cards. The camera has twin memory card slots - meaning there's no need to change media mid-shoot. Just move onto the second card without interruption.
What else can I possibly impart onto you about the Nikon D7000? Well, in addition to the major bells and whistles the camera also gives you its Picture Control system. Choose from scene settings like vivid, monochrome, and landscape. You can also utilize scene modes with names like child, close-up, and night portrait. Other creative controls include in-camera RAW image processing and the ability to add in special effects like fisheye and a miniature effect.
Advanced movie features also allow exposure adjustment on the fly while recording. The D7000 DSLR offers variable frame rates and resolutions, and can record 1080p at a cinema-like 24fps, or a web-friendly 720p at either 24 or 30fps for up to 20 minutes per clip. Once recorded, users are able to edit and trim video clips in the camera to save time in post production. Whether utilizing a wireless or hot shoe mounted microphone, sound can be recorded via the stereo microphone input for professional audio results
To further simplify movie shooting, Live View is activated by a single dedicated switch, and HD video recording is achieved by pressing a single button. The D7000 DSLR also incorporates a built-in HDMI output CEC compliant (Consumer Electronic Control) that allows users to connect it to a HDTV and playback with most HDTV remote controls
By adding versatile NIKKOR lenses to the equation, photographers can create a variety of photo perspectives to video such as isolating subjects with a shallow depth of field, and recording in low light conditions. Combining the D7000 DSLR with NIKKOR lenses also delivers the sharpness essential for HD video, and Nikon's innovative Vibration Reduction (VR) II technology helps to eliminate the effects of camera shake
An additional feature of the autofocus system is AF fine tune. Photographers sometimes require an extra level of ultra-fine AF tuning. This feature allows you to individually fine-tune and register the autofocus position for up to 12 lens models, then apply that compensation whenever the same lens is attached. You can also register adjustments uniformly regardless of the type of lens used
The Picture Control system also allows the choice for standard, neutral, vivid, monochrome, portrait, or landscape settings to apply a personal look and feel to their pictures, and it's versatile scene modes let them choose from portrait, landscape, child, sports, close-up or night portrait for stunning results even in challenging conditions
Nikon's AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens is a welcome addition to the Nikon DX-format DSLR systems, and an ideal counterpart to the D90 DSLR. This versatile optic offers much of the benefits of the enormously-popular 18-200mm VR lens but in a lighter, smaller body that takes a smaller filter as well.
The AF-S Silent Wave Motor in the 18-105mm VR yields speedy, silent, on-the-money AF performance with fulltime manual focus override. In particular, the AF-S motor keeps up with skittish, erratic subjects that overwhelm normal camera-driven-motor AF systems. You'll get more 'keeper' images of those fast-moving animals, athletes, children, vehicles and the like.
Along with the SWM (Silent Wave Motor), the 18-105 benefits from the VR Image Stabilizer built in to the lens, which will give you the ability to handhold the camera at shutter speeds up to three stops slower than would otherwise normally be possible. Always a benefit to a handheld pic, this is of particular usefulness whenever you're photographing slow-moving subjects in low light. The benefit of in-lens stabilization is seen in the viewfinder, making composing and capturing the image easier as well.
Note! Use of DX lenses are not recommended with 35mm cameras.
The Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED Lens is a versatile and ultra-compact telephoto zoom lens that offers a 3.6x zoom range, ideal for portraiture, sports or wildlife photography. Its equivalent focal length in 35mm terms, when used on a digital camera, is 82-300mm. It is the ideal companion to the DX 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED standard zoom lens.
The innovative Vibration Reduction (VR) system allows handheld telephoto zoom shooting even in poorly lit conditions. It minimizes image blur caused by camera shake, and offers the equivalent of shooting at a shutter speed 3 stops (8 times) faster. The Nikon Super Integrated Coating used in this lens minimizes ghosting and flare to provide even higher contrast and more vivid images, even in challenging light conditions.
This G-type Nikkor lens is designed with no aperture rings, and offers easier, virtually mistake-free operation because the aperture does not need to be set to minimum.
Note: DX-Nikkor lenses are engineered and optimized for use on Nikon DX-format D-SLRs and are designed to cover the smaller image area of the DX sensor. When a DX lens is mounted on an FX-format Nikon D-SLR, the camera's DX-Crop Mode is automatically engaged, introducing a 1.5x magnification (cropping) factor.
A compact rod-type Silent Wave Motor (SWM) enables ultra-high speed autofocusing with exceptional accuracy and super-quiet operation


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For hundreds of years, Ojibwe Indians thrived in the land we call Minnesota. They survived cold, harsh winters without modern inventions such as electricity, central heating, and grocery stores. How did they do it?
The secrets to Ojibwe life began with a deep respect for the land and its natural resources. Ojibwe people, also known as Anishinaabe or Chippewa, believed that every animal and plant is a being that should be treated with respect. They used tobacco as a way to show the Creator that they were not taking the life of a plant or an animal just for fun, but because they were going to use it for food, lodging, or medicine.
Ojibwe people usually did a good job of harvesting the things they needed without using them all. They took only enough fish and other animals—grouse, deer, rabbits, moose, elk, and caribou—to feed their families.
Another secret to Ojibwe survival was a strong belief in hard work. Fishing and hunting can be fun, but there is no guarantee of success. You must try and try again to catch a fish or shoot a deer or snare a rabbit. Imagine hunting and fishing to keep your family from going hungry. Ojibwe people worked hard to survive.
Over time, the Ojibwe gained special knowledge about the land and waters and the plants and animals that grow there. They learned the best ways to gather and use Minnesota's natural resources. These traditional lifeways, learned by trial and error, have passed from adults to children, generation after generation. Many people still practice them.
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The ongoing cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone is still on the increase with the Capital City and its suburbs (Western Area) accounting for more than 50% of the reported cases and about 34% of the deaths nationally. Kailahun remains the only district in the country without a confirmed cholera case. Active surveillance and social mobilisation activities are however underway in that district to prevent spread of the disease in case of an outbreak there.
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Probably of the best graffiti I ran across in the last few months. That (and the composition) could be a nice book title.
An IP (Internet Protocol) address written on the wall of this building in Geneva, Switzerland. A new kind of graffiti ? An awkward reminder ? A weird joke ? A curious ritual anyway.
Update: my friend Hannes Gassert, on FB, commented on this by saying something that makes it's even more intriguing:
That's not an address, that's a subnetwork definition ("mask"), the /24 indicating a network with 255 possible participants. Usually that's used with 192.168.1.0, so this is one off, for some reason. This notation was introduced with a network architecture that is called classless, so this might very well the most nerdy propaganda for small, classless societies ever encountered. Or, as the name of that notation is CIDR and it's a bit off, someone just might have had a bit too much cider.
A fascinating assemblage – a five Swiss francs coin duct taped to a calculator – spotted at a bubble tea place in Lausanne few weeks ago. When asked about the meaning of this, the waiter told me that "the owner is from Taiwan and she's quite superstitious"... which is a good explanation for this coin-based lucky charm that I found interesting.
Why do I blog this? I like the low-tech character of this obviously, and lucky charms are generally low-tech, but the combination of plastic, duct-tape and metal is very interesting. I wonder about similar approach with smartphones, laptops and other digital artefacts. Are we going to see smart-watches turned into lucky charms with weird materials? Seing this, I'm pretty convinced that it's going to be the case.
Just finished reading "Eclats d'Amérique" by Olivier Hodasava. It's an intriguing compilation of chronicles about the US of A based on the author's drifting and musing on Google Streetview. Hodasava never actually visited North America. He wrote his text based on his perception of certain selected scenes he liked. It's only in French though,
The book is an extension of his long-time work written on his weblog called "Dreamlands": each post extrapolates on a Google Streetview scene. Characters receive names, intentions, history and tastes, places get projected meaning and situations are the objects of fascinating speculations.
Why do I blog this? I think I mentioned the "Google Demo Slam" a while back (two guys who used Google Streetview to race across America without ever leaving their home), which was quite a thing to watch. In the case of this book, the intention and the result is far more intriguing and poetic. Such a great example of how a tool can be re-appropriated to project meaning, and extend the notion of fiction.
I don't really know whether this would count as a "locative media" proper but it certainly a curious case of storytelling as described by Ben Russell in the headmap manifesto back in the days ("..spatial maps of films: where do the characters go? ..do they stay in a confined area or travel (linear or circular?)").
"Project Habakkuk" belongs to this list of weird projects I have somewhere in an Evernote note. A British aircraft carrier supposed to be deployed against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, the plan was to make it out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice. Beyond this stunning fact, the most intriguing thing here is how this project ended. As reported by the Wikipedia:
"According to some accounts, at the Quebec Conference of 1943 Lord Mountbatten brought a block of pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the bevy of admirals and generals who had come along with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mountbatten entered the project meeting with two blocks and placed them on the ground. One was a normal ice block and the other was pykrete. He then drew his service pistol and shot at the first block. It shattered and splintered. Next, he fired at the pykrete to give an idea of the resistance of that kind of ice to projectiles. The bullet ricocheted off the block, grazing the trouser leg of Admiral Ernest King and ended up in the wall."
Why do I blog this? It's one of these projects that may or may not find its way into a talk about innovation, technologies and failures. Besides, V2 in Rotterdam has a research project about it.
"The Future of Wearable Services: A Proposal for a Pop-Up Sensor Nail Salon" is an intriguing design studio project conducted by Kristina Ortega at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, in the Media Design Practices program. It addresses the adoption of wearables, which shouldn't rely on a "one size fits all" approach as "context and specificity matter". Such starting point led the team to focus on nail art and how to embed sensors into layers of a gel manicure.
The website described the process they adopted:
For the first part of the lab we designed wearables with the idea that they would be "useless". This was our first version of our nail service, which we called "ritual nail". We experimented with form, 3D printing cats with LEDs embedded in them and embedding a nano pixel into the nail. [...] After our first round of making we decided to take a research trip to a nail art salon. While we were there we were fascinated by the process and negotiation that took place between the technician and the client. We really discovered the place of the service in the process. What would technicians look like in a electronically embedded salon service? The process of making prototypes, some with "sensor extensions" others made extremely brittle from the z corp 3D plaster printer. [...] We tested out five sensored options during a workshop/ user test [...] After user testing our early prototypes we decided that our project wasn't so much about the electronics embedded into nails, but more about the new services that will grow out of the need for wearables that can be specific and customizable. The new question is: who are the technicians in a new electronic fully customizable salon? We stopped looking for a solution and started looking for scenarios.
Why do I blog this? The topic (wearables) and the way it's addressed via nail art is interesting. I take the project as a relevant counterpart to lots of boring-and-utilitarian products or prototypes. Plus, the design process (with the useless-to-useful move) is curious, and somehow typical as an assignment.
A fascinating line observed in Montreal, QC.
Why do I blog this? Simply because it highlights a cultural use of space that is different than other places.
Why do I blog this? I'm not necessarily a big brand advocate, nor a fan of Lulu Lemon. However, I'm fascinated by the way their products come with such USP-oriented "why we made this" tags. Obviously, the answers are sometimes so-so (#1 and #3 overlap here) but I would certainly find fascinating to see ANY product around us with similar labelling. It's perhaps an intriguing assignment to ask workshop participants.
Currently reading "Software Takes Command" by Lev Manovich, i'm fascinated by the part where he explains the lack of interest about the history of cultural computing by our cultural institutions and computer industry itself. He explains that a possible reason for this lies in the absence of profits from the old software by current companies, unlike, say, Hollywood which "continues to receive profits from old movies as it reissues them in new formats (VHS, DVD, HD, Blu-ray disks, etc)". The most intriguing part corresponds to this affirmation that I find super intriguing:
"given that consumer culture systematically exploits adults' nostalgia for the cultural experiences of their teenage and youth years, it is actually surprising that early software versions were not seen as a market opportunity."
I guess that's quite common in the video game industry, see for instance the release of yet-another-version of Eric Chahi's Another World, but what about other types of software ? What would that entail ? Which software would you pick?
Why do I blog this? Thats looks like a good design fiction angle, and alternatively, a curious assignments for marketing students: how would you sell the resurgence of Quark X Press and Mac Paint ?
At some point, I'll have to investigate this. A phenomenon that always fascinates me: how players use paper as a (brick-and-mortar?) substitute to video games when devices are not available, or as a complement (for taking notes, drawings maps, etc.).
Why do I blog this? This is definitely fascinating. Not just because you see kids' fantasies and ways to change mediums. It's intriguing because it reveals how a game mechanic, or a graphic pattern, circulates and mutates to create a curious experience. I've seen once kids playing together on paper and I enjoyed observing how they "filled the gap", how the absence of the mighty computer was turned into creative engine.
Plus, I find this interesting because it obviously leads to curious game design propositions, and bc it makes me think of how to take this into consideration in video game design itself: how would you enable the other persons around a player to use paper to improve the game? Can one create a game in which the person holding the controller needs a friend to use a hand-drawn map to help her?
Besides, no one here thought of booklets with video game grids, Zelda open world maps in B&W versions, Super Mario Sunshine levels... with weird paper game mechanics so that players can "interact" with them? I'm pretty sure this exist. The Star Wars starfighter battle book series is a good start but still...
This month, I'm giving a workshop at HEAD–Genève with Frédéric Kaplan and Yannick Rochat about Information Visualization and TV-series. The idea is to show the students how to visually depict events, characters' network, geographical evolution, among other things in these shows... using various sources (scripts found in imsdb, subtitles, Wikipedia entries fan encyclopedia like wookiepedia, etc.). Some examples below we discussed in class:
ALL ABOUT TV SERIES by DH101 students EPFL
Production of various visualizations, like the one below (Game of Thrones)
TWIN PEAKS 1990 on moviegalaxies
LORD OF THE RINGS PROJECT by Emil Johansson
CORE-SAMPLE by Aurelien Farina:
This editorial and artistic project is based on the metaphor of "coring", a technique used for geological and industrial ground surveys. The project was elaborated as an application of the coring technique to a particular mass-culture production : the "Starsky & Hutch" TV series. The book consists in a number of chapters made of screenshots captured in the series' first two seasons (1975-1977) : all recurent scenes are gathered and accumulated in series of similar images.
Why do I blog this? Collecting examples for the coming days of the workshop: types of visualizations (social networks, maps), sort of data proposed (texts, images...), the type of analysis, etc.
A dialogue from Mad Men S07E04:
"Lloyd: These machines can be a metaphor for whatever's on people's minds.
Don Draper: Because they're afraid of computers?
Lloyd: Yes. This machine is frightening to people, but it's made by people.
Don Draper: And people aren't frightening?
Lloyd: It's not that. It's more of a cosmic disturbance. This machine is intimidating because it contains infinite quantities of information, and that's threatening, because human existence is finite. But isn't it godlike that we've mastered the infinite? The IBM 360 can count more stars in a day than we can in a lifetime.
Don Draper: But what man laid on his back counting stars and thought about a number?
Lloyd: He probably thought about going to the moon."
Why do I blog this? Just found this dialogue interesting as a metaphor for discussion in the 1960s about "computing" and the role of this machinery in society.
Studio D Radiodurans – Jan Chipchase's new boutique – just released an intriguing booklet called "Pop-up Studio: Designing The Design Experience". It's basically a 43-pages guide that describes "how to run a pop-up studio, when and why it is appropriate, the trade-offs that need to be understood".
Based on various examples coming from Jan and his current/former colleagues, it's full of insightful material for design researchers, field explorers and people interested in product/service/strategy development. The set of tools and the approach explained in this book are meant to show how to manage "rapid immersion" into new cultural forms, people's practices and use that material to surface new ideas and designs. Lots of details are provided about how to do that and what it means practically (studio duration, use of space, budgets, check-lists, ...). It seems like a great companion to the upcoming "the field study handbook".
Why do I blog this? Definitely because I'm interested in others' methods, guidelines, recommendations and informed opinions. It's always good to take them as inspiration and cases to create one's approach. Plus it's related with a current project that aims at describing how designers repurposed ethnography in their own work context (book to be released in few months).
Coincidentally, I received two magazines today about a similar topic: collection and compilation. The first is the last copy of The Wire, the British music journal; and the second is FACTA, a fascinating Brazilian fanzine about "gambiologia" (the study of creative improvisation and electro-digital DIY).
"What is a compilation but a collection of similarities and differences? To compile is to suggest or imply that everything within it has something in common, whether it be a sound, a time, a place or a theme. The remainder is difference: the varying species of that sound, other elements in that time or place, alternative angles on that themes" describes Adam Harper in his introduction to the special issue of The Wire on compilation.
Why do I blog this? I'm curious about the role of compilation, collection and selection, mostly with regards to the analytical mindset of designers/artists and ethnographers. There's something in common here that should be explored, beyond the type of artifacts and cultural content that is collected. I generally work using aggregation of various types of material and enjoy this type of process. For instance, the game controller project was based on collecting actual game pads that we explored in conjunction with patents, interviews with designers and players, books about the history of video games... the careful compilation of facts, anecdotes, pictures, opinions, statistics and hypotheses created a curious assemblage that helped creating various intermediary objects (diagrams, genealogy trees, installation in exhibits) and two books.
The May edition of the Smithsonian has an article on sci-fi, the Future (capital F) and design fiction. Based on interviews with various science-fiction authors (Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Ursula Le Guin, Ted Chiang or Neal Stephenson), this piece by Eileen Gunn highlights how the genre acts as a sort of laboratory and "how the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures."
Interestingly, this article describes classical debates about the mutual relationships between sci-fi, science and technological research: the opposition between utopian and dystopian futures (as well as the acknowledgment that this dualism is flawed), the "where's my flying car?" frustration that some authors want to move away from, the need to embrace new visions of the future, etc. The paper concludes with this sort of summary of the role of science-fiction for society:
Science fiction, at its best, engenders the sort of flexible thinking that not only inspires us, but compels us to consider the myriad potential consequences of our actions. Samuel R. Delany, one of the most wide-ranging and masterful writers in the field, sees it as a countermeasure to the future shock that will become more intense with the passing years. "The variety of worlds science fiction accustoms us to, through imagination, is training for thinking about the actual changes—sometimes catastrophic, often confusing—that the real world funnels at us year after year. It helps us avoid feeling quite so gob-smacked."
This piece is quite interesting. However, I'm not sure about the current debate on the importance of reading science-fiction in research labs ("Brueckner laments that researchers whose work deals with emerging technologies are often unfamiliar with science fiction.") Of course, I'm convince about Delany's quote above but I'm unsure whether this applies to ANY book, film, video-game or comic-book related with "the Future". Would the Warhammer 40K series of book really help like a JG Ballard novel? Besides, one might also argue that poetry or other forms of literature might be helpful? And why limiting oneself to this? Perhaps there are other ways to get this "flexible thinking" promoted by the authors there: RTS games or Eve-Online situated in a distant future might be relevant too. This problem was recently address in another article in The Atlantic. Robinson Meyer commented on Google's process for selecting Google X projects: "lt must utilize a radical solution that has at least a component that resembles science fiction.", to which the author wrote:
When we imagine a "science fiction"-like future, I think we tend to picture completed worlds, flying cars, the shiny, floating towers of midcentury dreams. We tend, in other words, to imagine future technological systems as readymade, holistic products that people will choose to adopt, rather than as the assembled work of countless different actors, which they've always really been. The futurist Scott Smith calls these 'flat-pack futures,' and they infect "science fictional" thinking. Science fiction, too, can underestimate the importance and role of social change. For every feminist science fiction writer or Afrofuturist, there is a still better-known member of the genre's far-right.
Why do I blog this? I'm currently writing a book (French) about these topics, and such articles offer interesting parallel to my current thinking and projects carried out at the Near Future Laboratory.
For people intrigued by such material, these pieces should be read alongside Julian's essay on design fiction, as well as "Better Made Up: The Mutual Influence of Science fiction and Innovation" (Caroline Bassett, Ed Steinmueller, Georgina Voss, Nesta, 2013) and "Imagining Technology" (Jon Turney, Nesta, 2013).
Some resources about design fiction I'm use to share with students. Note that the term itself is polysemic and covers different perceptions about its meaning.
Auger, J. (2011). Alternative Presents and Speculative Futures: Designing fictions through the extrapolation and evasion of product lineages., Negotiating Futures / Design Fictions, Swiss Design Network 2011, Basel.
Auger, J. (2013). Speculative design: crafting the speculation, Digit. Creat., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 11--35, 2013.
Bassett, C., Steinmuller, E. & Voss, G. (2013). Better Made Up: The Mutual Influence of Science fiction and Innovation", Nesta Working Paper 13/07.
Bleecker, J. (2009). Design fiction: A short essay on design, science, fact and fiction, Near Future Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA,
Bleecker, (2011). Design Fiction: From Props To Prototypes, Negotiating Futures / Design Fictions, Swiss Design Network 2011, Basel.
Bleecker, J. & Nova, N., (2009). A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing. The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY.
Candy, S. (2010). The futures of everyday life: politics and the design of experiential scenarios, PhD thesis. The University of Hawai.
DiSalvo, Carl. (2012). Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures. The Fibreculture Journal(20).
Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2011). Design noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2001.
Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2014). Speculative Everything: design, fiction and social dreaming. MIT Press.
Forlano, L. (2013). Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design?, Ethnography Matters.
Franke, B. (2011). Design Fiction is Not Necessarily About the Future, Negotiating Futures / Design Fictions, Swiss Design Network 2011, Basel.
Galloway, A. (2013). Towards Fantastic Ethnography and Speculative Design, Ethnography Matters.
Grand, S. & Wiedmer, M. (2010). Design Fiction: A Method Toolbox for Design Research in a Complex World, DRS, 2010.
Hales, D. (2013). Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy, Digital Creativity, 24:1, 1-10
Jain, A., Ardern, J. & Pickard, J. (2012). Design Futurescaping, Journal of Futures Studies.
Johnson, B.D. (2009). "Science Fiction Prototypes Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Future and Love Science Fiction", in Intelligent Environments 2009 – Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Callaghan, V., Kameas, A., Reyes, A., Royo, D., Weber, M. (Eds.), IOS Press, Barcelona pp. 3-8.
Johnson, B.D. (2011). "Love and God and Robots: The Science Behind the Science Fiction Prototype "Machinery of Love and Grace"", in Workshop Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments Augusto, J. C., Aghajan, V., Callaghan, V., Cook, D. J., O'Donoghue, J., Egerton, S., Gardner, M., Johnson, B. D., Kovalchuk, Y., López-Cózar, R., Mikulecký, P., Ng, J. W. P., Poppe, R., Wang, M. J., Zamudio, V. (Eds.), IOS Press, Nottingham pp. 99-127.
Kirby, D. (2010). The future is now: Diegetic prototypes and the role of popular films in generating real-world technological development. Social Studies of Science 40 (1), pp. 41-70.
Kirby, D., 2011 Lab coats in Hollywood: science, scientists and cinema. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Morrison, A. (2014). Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction via a Rogue Urban Drone, In Proceedings of DRS 2014 Conference. Umeå, Sweden.: 16.06.2014–19.06.2014
Raford, Noah. (2012). From Design to Experiential Futures, The Future of Futures: The Association of Professional Futurists.
Shedroff N. & Noessel C. (2012). Make It So Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction. San Francisco: Rosenfeld.
Sterling, B. (2009), Design Fiction, Interactions 16 (3), pp. 20-24.
Ward, M. (2013). Design Fiction as Pedagogic Practice Towards a fictionally biased design education, Medium.
Zeller, L. (2011) What You See Is What You Don't Get: Addressing Implications of Information Technology through Design Fiction" Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6770 pp. 329-336.
An interesting post Olivier Mével sent me, right after I saw a "3D rice cooker": Why Rice Cookers Are Exciting. Some excerpts I find intriguing:
"Consider the everyday rice cooker. It seems rather dull: a squat box occupying space on the countertop, usually without any grace or sense of style. Yet this unimpressive appearing cooking device now simplifies the lives of tens of millions of owners all over the world. A quick search for "cooking with a rice cooker" reveals it being used to cook a wide assortment of food: chicken, fish, bread, and even chocolate cake. Take a closer look and you might be surprised at the sophistication of these devices, with high-end units containing microprocessors, multiple temperature sensors, multiple induction heaters, and displays. They use advanced artificial intelligence with fuzzy logic control systems. As one manufacturer's description puts it: Equipped with a computer chip, the rice cooker can "think" and adjust cooking length and temperature according to the thermal sensor's calculations." For rice, the machine figures out the soaking and steaming times, the cooking temperatures, and then, when the rice is done, switches to a safe holding temperature, where the food can be kept for many hours without affecting taste. "
Why do I blog this? I'm fascinated by how such so-called "mundane artefact" are changing based on recent technological advances. The rice cooker is an unexpected but obviously good example here.
ETHICAL AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES by Matthieu Cherubini is a stunning project I ran across tonight:
"Many car manufacturers are projecting that by 2025 most cars will operate on driveless systems. While it is valid to think that our roads will be safer as autonomous vehicles replace traditional cars, the unpredictability of real-life situations that involve the complexities of moral and ethical reasoning complicate this assumption.
How can such systems be designed to accommodate the complicatedness of ethical and moral reasoning? Just like choosing the color of a car, ethics can become a commodified feature in autonomous vehicles that one can buy, change, and repurchase, depending on personal taste.
Three distinct algorithms have been created - each adhering to a specific ethical principle/behaviour set-up - and embedded into driverless virtual cars that are operating in a simulated environment, where they will be confronted with ethical dilemmas."
Why do I blog this? This definitely counts as a project related to my interest towards algorithms and how their use influence everyday life.
This morning I've been to the Collection de l'Art Brut (Outsider Art) in Lausanne, for the "vehicles" exhibition. It's a new series, addressing means of transport with over 200 pieces by forty-two authors:
"Vehicles of the most rudimentary kind or of a more technical nature, and whether intended for travel by air, land or water, have always fascinated mankind. Incorporating a link with the childhood world with which Art Brut creators tend to remain attached, vehicles also embody an idea of power, both physically and sexually, as if to prolong human aptitudes."
It's brilliant and the pieces that caught my attention were the one by Serge Delaunay:
"Delaunay uses black felt pen on large sheets of paper. Colour is rare. Cars and spaceships are his favourite subjects. He is fascinated by science, especially astronomy and mechanics, and buys science magazines every week. He adds texts and captions to his drawings. The initials GTX, often under his signature, refer to the automotive industry too. "
Two examples: (Copyright Collection de L'Art Brut)
See also some this one that reflects his interested towards technological futures:
Why do I blog this? I'm very curious by Outside Art and the way these pieces exemplify some alternative and curious vision of our reality. Delaunay's vision of technological artifacts such as car, TVs and robots are utterly stunning.
Having written and talked a lot about technological flops and failures, I'm always fascinated by this time of the year. With the CES at Las Vegas, there's always this resurgence of bad product ideas... and the internet/smart/intelligent/connected fridge is one of them. Ars Technica has a good piece about the problems that one may encounter with smart devices. The list they make is strikingly interesting IMO:
"the "Internet of things" stands a really good chance of turning into the "Internet of unmaintained, insecure, and dangerously hackable things."
These devices will inevitably be abandoned by their manufacturers, and the result will be lots of "smart" functionality—fridges that know what we buy and when, TVs that know what shows we watch—all connected to the Internet 24/7, all completely insecure. [...] Flaws and insecurities will be uncovered, and the software components of these smart devices will need to be updated to address those problems. They'll need these updates for the lifetime of the device, too. [...] In addition to security, there's also a question of utility. Netflix and Hulu may be hot today, but that may not be the case in five years' time. New services will arrive; old ones will die out. Even if the service lineup remains the same, its underlying technology is unlikely to be static."
This necessity to have "updates" is problematic given the tendency tech companies have to badly handle them:
"That costs money, it requires a commitment to providing support, and it does little or nothing to promote sales of the latest and greatest devices. In the software world, there are companies that provide this level of support—the Microsofts and IBMs of the world—but it tends to be restricted to companies that have at least one eye on the enterprise market. In the consumer space, you're doing well if you're getting updates and support five years down the line."
Why do I blog this? The update bit is a problem i didn't consider in my argument against smart fridges but it sounds reasonable and relevant. Concerning CES products, I have to admit I'm far more intrigued by vaping devices and bluetooth-enabled piercings than such smart fridges/watches.