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Richard Barnes Photography
by sbrothier
Richard Barnes divides his time between commissioned work and personal projects. He looks at architecture as artifact and, placing it within the context of archaeology, challenges our conceptions of the way we inhabit and represent the built environment. His photographs are in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Harvard Photographic Archive. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize for 2005-06.
Square
by sbrothier
& 2 others
In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as payment. Even though a majority of payments has moved to plastic cards, accepting payments from cards is still difficult, requiring long applications, expensive hardware, and an overly complex experience. Square was born a few days later right next to the old San Francisco US Mint.
Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We’re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010.
this is the Hand Drawn Map Association : CC.5 Vicente Montelongo
by karlcow
Vicente reinterprets the city of San Francisco as a grid for drawing pixel art using his bike, a map, and a GPS device.
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November 2009
October 2009
La VoIP mise à mal - UCSniff peut intercepter des communications via voix sur IP- Gaffe à vous si vous utilisez les réseaux Wifi publics!
by decembre
& 1 other
Gaffe à vous si vous utilisez les réseaux Wifi publics pour passer vos appels en VoIP avec votre iPhone (ou autre)… En effet, des chercheurs en sécurité informatique ont présenté à la conférence Toorcon à San Francisco la nouvelle version de leur outil open source d’eavesdropping : UCSniff , pouvant intercepter des communications via voix sur IP avec un simple PC connecté au réseau local.c’est que ces écoutes sauvages peuvent être maintenant réalisées en live.sait même récuperer la vidéo lorsqu’il y en a une dans la communication VoIp.Le problème ici, il existe une tripoté de logiciels de VoIP qui ne procurent aucun chiffrement des communications, facilitant le travail des hackers.Faites donc gaffe à bien choisir votre logiciel de VoIP. Vérifiez que celui-ci possède de bonnes capacités de chiffrement - Pour plus d’info : Le chiffrement sur téléphone mobile
Le Figaro - International : «En pleine discussion», les pilotes oublient d'atterrir
by paulantoinem
Que s'est-il passé dans l'Airbus qui effectuait la liaison San Diego-Minneapolis le 21 octobre au soir ? Pendant plus d'une heure, personne n'en avait la moindre idée. Après avoir tenté sans su ...
September 2009
The Web At A New Crossroads
by oseres
Technology was then the black sheep, having left overnight millionaires destitute and without change to afford their $4 lattes. Even the posers had left San Francisco and gone back to suburbia to be office managers at Walmart.
It was a sad time for everyone — that is, except the die-hards and the hackers. The web for them had never been about making money, but about reshaping culture and toppling the old order. 2003, therefore, was the perfect time for a resurgence: the people who kept pushing on in the Valley and elsewhere were a concentrated motley crew of innovators and builders. They cared about technology for technology’s sake and about developing and advancing web culture.
What they didn’t realize, however, was that the services and technologies that they were destined to build would need to be cobbled and sewn together using a system that would fight them every step of the way — not out of spite — but because of its architecture. By definition the network available was decidedly anti-human: in 2003, there was only the document-centric web.
American Girl - Julie Albright
by access2
"Julie Albright doesn't want to move away from her San Francisco neighborhood near Chinatown, even if their new apartment is just a few miles away. Moving means leaving her best friend, Ivy, and her pet rabbit, Nutmeg. Worst of all, it means leaving Dad, now that her parents are divorced."
August 2009
SomaFM
by paulantoinem
18 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco. via somafm.com ...
Shadows from Another Place | NT2
by karlcow
Le projet «Shadows from Another Place» propose à l'internaute de prendre conscience des répercussions des bombardements effectués par l'armée américaine en Irak, en mai 2003. Les coordonnées GPS de ces sites irakiens ont été répertoriés et transposés sur une carte de la ville de San Francisco. Des photos ont été prises sur ces lieux américains qui se révèlent être des lieux publics. Cette oeuvre engagée permet de déplacer les lieux de violence, de les poser dans l'espace occidental et d'en dégager les répercussions possibles sur un espace donné. «Cherry Blossoms», de l'artiste Alyssa Wright, propose une approche similaire sous forme de performance dans la ville de Boston
