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The liquid project nr: 5
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Based on this tutorial
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I recently uncovered a trippy little piece I wrote on constructive constructions for the creatives at ARUP:
Evolving Cities and Culture
Innovation is critical to economic growth, progress, and the fate of the planet. Yet, it seems so random. But patterns emerge in the aggregate, and planners and politicians may be able to promote innovation and growth despite the overall inscrutability of this complex system.
One emergent pattern, spanning centuries, is that the pace of innovation is perpetually accelerating, and it is exogenous to the economy. Rather, it is the combinatorial explosion of possible innovation-pairings that creates economic growth. And that is why cities are the crucible of innovation.
Geoffrey West of the Santa Fe Institute argues that cities are an autocatalytic attractor and amplifier of innovation. People are more innovative and productive, on average, when they live in a city because ideas can cross-pollinate more easily. Proximity promotes propinquity and the promiscuity of what Matt Ridley calls “ideas having sex”. This positive network effect drives another positive feedback loop - by attracting the best and the brightest to flock to the salon of mind, the memeplex of modernity.
Cities are a structural manifestation of the long arc of evolutionary indirection, whereby the vector of improvement has risen steadily up the ladder of abstractions from chemicals to genes to systems to networks. At each step, the pace of progress has leapt forward, making the prior vectors seem glacial in comparison – rather we now see the nature of DNA and even a neuron as a static variable in modern times. Now, it’s all about the ideas - the culture and the networks of humanity. We have moved from genetic to mimetic evolution, and much like the long-spanning neuron (which took us beyond nearest neighbor and broadcast signaling among cells) ushering the Cambrian explosion of differentiated and enormous body plans, the Internet brings long-spanning links between humans, engendering an explosion in idea space, straddling isolated pools of thought.
And it’s just beginning. In the next 10 years, four billion minds will come online for the first time to join this global conversation (via Starlink broadband satellites).
But why does this drive innovation and accelerating change? Start with Brian Arthur’s observation that all new technologies are combinations of technologies that already exist. Innovation does not occur in a vacuum; it is a combination of ideas from before. In any academic field, the advances today are built on a large edifice of history. This is the foundation of progress, something that was not so evident to the casual observer before the age of science. Science tuned the process parameters for innovation, and became the best method for a culture to learn.
From this conceptual base, come the origin of economic growth and accelerating technological change, as the combinatorial explosion of possible idea pairings grows exponentially as new ideas come into the mix (on the order of 2^n of possible groupings per Reed’s Law). It explains the innovative power of urbanization and networked globalization. And it explains why interdisciplinary ideas are so powerfully disruptive; it is like the differential immunity of epidemiology, whereby islands of cognitive isolation (e.g., academic disciplines) are vulnerable to disruptive memes hopping across, much like South America was to smallpox from Cortés and the Conquistadors. If disruption is what you seek, cognitive island-hopping is good place to start, mining the interstices between academic disciplines.
So what evidence do we have of accelerating technological change? At Future Ventures, we see it in the diversity and quality of the entrepreneurial ideas arriving each year across our global offices. Scientists do not slow their thinking during recessions.
For a good mental model of the pace of innovation, consider Moore’s Law in the abstract – the annual doubling of compute power or data storage. As Ray Kurzweil has plotted, the smooth pace of exponential progress spans from 1890 to today, across countless innovations, technology substrates, and human dramas — with most contributors completely unaware that they were fitting to a curve.
Moore’s Law is a primary driver of disruptive innovation – such as the iPod usurping the Sony Walkman franchise – and it drives not only IT and communications, but also now genomics, medical imaging and the life sciences in general. As Moore’s Law crosses critical thresholds, a formerly lab science of trial and error experimentation becomes a simulation science and the pace of progress accelerates dramatically, creating opportunities for new entrants in new industries. And so the industries impacted by the latest wave of tech entrepreneurs are more diverse, and an order of magnitude larger — from automobiles and rockets to energy and chemicals.
At the cutting edge of computational capture is biology; we are actively reengineering the information systems of biology and creating synthetic microbes whose DNA was manufactured from bare computer code and an organic chemistry printer. But what to build? So far, we largely copy large tracts of code from nature. But the question spans across all the complex systems that we might wish to build, from cities to designer microbes, to computer intelligence.
As these systems transcend human comprehension, will we continue to design them or will we increasingly evolve them? As we design for evolvability, the locus of learning shifts from the artifacts themselves to the process that created them. There is no mathematical shortcut for the decomposition of a neural network or genetic program, no way to "reverse evolve" with the ease that we can reverse engineer the artifacts of purposeful design. The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms (machine learning, evolution, fractals, organic growth, art) derives from their irreducibility.
And what about human social systems? The corporation is a complex system that seeks to perpetually innovate. Leadership in these complex organizations shifts from direction setting to a wisdom of crowds. And this “process learning” is a bit counterintuitive to some alpha leaders: cognitive diversity is more important than ability, disagreement is more important than consensus, voting policies and team size are more important than the coherence or comprehensibility of the decisions, and tuning the parameters of communication (frequency and fanout) is more important than charisma.
The same could be said for urban planning. How will cities be built and iterated upon? Who will make those decisions and how? We are just starting to see the shimmering refractions of the hive mind of human culture, and now we want to redesign the hives themselves to optimize the emergent complexity within. Perhaps the best we can do is set up the grand co-evolutionary dance and listen carefully for the sociobiology of supra-human sentience.
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I first brainstormed about reinventing construction with Astro Teller and Sebastian Thrun when they were forming Google X and looking for the largest markets in the world that look ripe for disruption from advancing information technology and machine learning. The $10 trillion spent each year on buildings certainly qualified, and the global construction industry is growing from 13% of the entire global economy to 15% in 2020. Helix.re became the first Google X spinout, taking a data and software-driven approach to building design and optimization.
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the 50mm project nr: 26
the goal: make 50 shots at 50mm.
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JAY & FEC TA GFL DBC FREIGHT GRAFFITI FROM CONSTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTION VOLUME 3
Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by CONSTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTION.
Constructive criticism gratefully received.
Made for an It's An Addiction discussion
Resources;
Background by me
Model with thanks to Maria Amanda
Cloud Brushes with thanks www.obsidiandawn.com
Wings with thanks Dark Dragon Stock
Feather Brushes with thanks Falln Stock
Tiara with thanks ybsilon
I feel fortunate to have been asked to contribute to this DVD by a freind.
Constructive Destruction webstore
trailer: www.youtu.be/AZHHQKbNgk8
The first 100 orders will come with a 5" x 7" print from myself. The prints are 5" x 7" prints. Four different photos printed in quantities of 25. Constructive Destruction has no idea what photo is sealed in what envelope.
This chipmunk was picking up large semi-composed leaves and scrunching them up into his mouth. Once he had enough, he'd skitter off (presumably to his burrow) then come back for more. It was so fascinating! More pics of him at instagram/amboire
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
by Marc Bloch
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This last week i was in Ibiza.
what a wonderfull island!
Constructive criticism and suggestions always welcome. Many thanks to everyone who have taken the time to comment or constructively criticize.
Thank you all for visiting
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The liquid project nr: 39
The goal: make 50 shots related with liquid.
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When I should have been home watching the Mavericks game or doing some much-needed writing, I was instead out following my buddy Chris around downtown Dallas as he shot night video of the city.
Here we encountered the surreal juxtapositioning of a construction crew working in front of the Nieman Marcus display windows. I'd love to hear what the one girl is whispering to the other.
This image is a composite of two exposures; one exposed for the display windows, the other exposed for the rest of the scene.
Constructive criticism required.
Are polybags a good choice for the liquid-look? How does the vomiting action look like? Is the facial expression good?
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the 50mm project nr: 4
the goal: make 50 shots at 50mm.
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Shot this on the north downs way last night
As normal constructive critique welcome
See more of my work on www.sgrayphotography.co.uk
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Holi, The Festival of Colors presents a wonderful opportunity for art teachers to use bright colors in their art lessons. Colored powders can be created to create powder paintings (similar to sand paintings). Paintings can be created to illustrate the history of the Indian holiday.
The Festival of Colours, (also called Holaka, Phagwa, Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi) is a popular Hindu spring festival observed around the world. Holi is a time when humans and nature shake off the gloom of winter and rejoice in the colors of spring. The holiday is primarily observed in India, Nepal, and countries with large Hindu populations such as Suriname, Guyana, Fiji, Mauritius and Trinidad. In West Bengal of India and Bangladesh, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav. The annual festival is celebrated on the day of the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna. That month is March in the anglo calendar. In 2009 Holi was celebrated on March 11. In 2010 it will be celebrated February 28. The most important day, Holi, is celebrated by Hindus throwing colored powder and colored water at each other. The Holika Dahan (or Chhoti Holi) is celebrated by lighting bonfires.
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n. An apparent memory, of an event that did not actually happen, unconsciously constructed to fill a gap.
This is a revised version of my original DCG (Digital Composite Graphic). Some of the comments viewed below may not be applicable to this revised artwork. All constructive criticisms were taken under consideration and where appropriate, revisions were made. For my "Brit" friends, I trust that this graphic is now historically accurate...... or as historically accurate as possible. For one particular Brit who didn't like the smoke trail from the crash explosion in my original artwork, I trust this person is now satisfied...... if not, as they say in the States, "Tough"! (intended humor...........nevertheless, true). Oh yes, I almost forget. No, this is NOT cropped to tightly. It is meant to depict a chaotic scene and this is the purpose of creating a proliferation of action and/or images within the confines of the border.
BTW - Notes on my picture will be deleted. If you want to make a comment, please use comments or email me directly. Thank you.
I want to thank and acknowledge the following flickr members for allowing me to utilize their photos (and no, this is not the academy awards if anyone is thinking that I am being overly ostentatious).
Exceptional aerial photo that inspired me to create this DCG (Digital Composite Graphic) photographed by *tamara*
www.flickr.com/photos/tamtam/3970104896/in/set-7215760224...
Tony Cyphert for his excellent Me 109 photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony717/3737128523/
www.flickr.com/photos/tony717/3745259356/
Si 558 for this very clean and crisp shot of this Spitfire Mk II entitled "Up Into The Sky" www.flickr.com/photos/si558/1214669787/in/set-72157602196...
ClifB whose excellent photo of this Spitfire Mk II was a perfect image to incorporate into my composite graphic. www.flickr.com/photos/11444813@N03/3542567016/
fleeting image for his "coming right at you" shot of this beauty of a Spitfire.
www.flickr.com/photos/fleeting_images/3945456490/in/pool-...
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