In my e-mailbox today, the MIT alumni Association Tech News… an article about an “eco-friendly plane”… certainly I have thought of the relationship between “mobility” and “green.” I had found “advices to reduce our impact while on the move.” I researched the concept of frugality in my thesis, the relationship between the neo-nomad and his environment: how he uses it when he needs it, and how technology may participate in a smarter management of the land. BTW I keep on hearing to publish that thesis: I swear, I am working on it (though sometimes I feel like the inventor of the post-it)! However, and for my friends, the long awaited TAXI-TOXI-CITY .pdf (English), short essay I wrote for JCDecaux, Mobilités: la Clé des Villes (St-Amand-Montrond, Clerc: 2006) p. 98-99 (Thank you Bruno!)

Instinct of property?

It is more H-( than H-) ... Nothing to do with neo-nomads... though I still use a cellphone on the go... A little break some time to time!

The legendary game between Harvard and Yale (IVY league). Not my luck, my first football game and Harvard loses H-( The stadium was full by the end of the third quarter.

Bewildered. My Danish friend came along with Jacob (jacob's website!) who said to have acquired a GPS last year. I purchased his book entitled "American Pictures."

Working with Cati on a fashion statement (more soon!)... we opened a private blog to correspond, and keep images, files and links together. Ideas fuse.

Some of our sketches... premises of our investigation:



The exchange is fructuous. Among the discoveries, much about wearable... and... the essay by Mark Poster: Digitally Local Communications: Technologies and Space | Prepared for Conference on "The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections" | June 10-12, Budapest...

"As we shift scenes to the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, our urbanite is laden with the gear of information machinery: a beeper, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, an mp3 player or Walkman, a palmtop computer. In these postmodern geographies or virtual geographies one is simultaneously in several places, with perhaps a different identity in each location, seeing what appears before one in the street, but listening to a distant, telephonic voice or engaged in online gaming with participants from all over the globe. Space is now at once nearby and distant, local and global, but also multiple and fragmented, morphing the urban body not only into diverse shapes but also into several incarnations. Spaces, identities and information machines now combine into new forms of practice that seriously shift the cultural landscape away from its familiar modern parameters. These locations are neither non-places nor nowheres but actual spaces of mobile communications. And who is to say if the remote intimacy they afford is not equal or superior to its proximate forms."

Few articles to read...

REAL TIME
By JASON FRY
Traveling Without Leaving
The Computer and Cellphone Were in Chicago, But the Virtual World Was Perfectly Familiar | Wall Street Journal Online

Excerpt:

Arriving at my downtown hotel, I dropped my bag on the other bed, dumped everything out my pockets, looked out both windows (an airshaft and a level of a parking garage, respectively), plugged my cellphone in to recharge, hooked up the spool of Ethernet cable the front desk had lent me and fired up my laptop. [...] After settling in, I wrote and edited and emailed and sent IMs as always, but twice had to explain, in the middle of perfectly ordinary conversations, that I was 700 miles away from where I normally was. That startled the person I was IMing with -- and truth be told, it surprised me a bit too. Because as long as I was staring at the screen, the only substantive difference between my Chicago hotel room and my New York office was the chair. Wasn't I in the same place I always was? After all, my work habits, conversations with people and even my morning perusal of favorite personal links were the same. It was only when I disconnected my New York desktop that things seemed odd -- I'd look around the hotel room like someone waking up in a new place and think, "Oh yeah, Chicago." This curious sense of dislocation isn't just a function of computers.

Thank you Becca + Dave for the info!

Also (in French):

Le temps de survie des objets errants
Impondérables.
Laurent Wolf
Mardi 24 octobre 2006 | Le Temps

Excerpt:

Il y a des trottoirs inspirés sur lesquels apparaissent des objets divers, certains en parfait état. [...] Certains objets ont une longue survie urbaine. Ainsi ce sommier apparu aux environs du 15 septembre et qui a tenu un mois. Armature de métal, lattes de bois, modèle standard, posé sur la tranche contre la vitrine de l'opticien voisin qui s'est empressé, dès l'ouverture, de le pousser vers la vitrine d'à côté. Le sommier n'a pas excité la convoitise, si ce n'est qu'il a perdu une latte par jour jusqu'à n'être qu'une armature de métal traînant sa langueur de long en large. Car le voisin de l'opticien l'a poussé vers le bord du trottoir, d'où un automobiliste l'a délogé pour parquer son véhicule. Il est ensuite allé de droite à gauche, d'abord devant un guichet automatique de banque, ensuite au milieu d'un parking de motocyclettes, puis à 2 mètres d'une terrasse de bistrot où il faisait mauvais effet, pour finir près d'une barrière de chantier.

Thank you Nicolas!