Infinite Zoom into Milk

September 26th, 2008 by Schulze · Comments Off

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In 1977 Charles and Ray Eames made a documentary film called Powers of Ten. The second half of the film includes a slow zoom into a man’s hand, right the way through cells and molecules all the way down to an atomic structure. It’s extraordinarily engaging, beginning at a familiar human context, and visualising something [...]

Japanese repair culture and distributed manufacture

January 9th, 2007 by Matt Webb · 5 Comments

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I’ve just finished Cities by John Reader, on the history of cities, and it’s chock full of information and great stories. This story, on Japanese manufacture, is lengthy but so good I have to quote it in full: Bicycles were extremely popular in Japanese cities at the end of the nineteenth century, when the import [...]

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