A heartfelt plug:
Last week I went to see the excellent Into The Woods exhibit/collection at the Bluebird Shop, curated by my excellent friends Priya and Alexander. From the invite:
Into the Woods as the name suggests is the next collection from Digital Wellbeing Labs that celebrates the cross-over between technology and nature featuring digital products made with natural materials and software based on mathematical rules as discovered in nature.
The wonders available for sale included the iLogs -- mp3 players embedded in natural wooden logs; digital photo displays with elegant, domesticated wooden frames; a rustic wooden swing that laughs when you move; a coffee table with a flat screen that shows a microscopic view of your finger; elegant wooden headphones; and much more.
We speak of wonderful new media products that will change how we communicate, how we entertain ourselves, how we live. But we never stop to observe that the way all these 'products' come into our life is always through the same tired, old, anti-social, demanding, work-like, hideous object that is the PC, with its screen, keyboard and mouse. This won't do; and for as long as we refuse to see this web video won't be able to compete with television (for some persuasive evidence see this; see also my old drum that a product is just a practice and nothing more).
If you live in London and like this blog, you will find the show a refreshingly lateral source of thinking -- and gadgets, if you can afford them.
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