Author: mr.snow
Inside door.
“Which side of the door do you want?”
Motor mounting.
Eco-anxiety
10 articles from the last month containing the phrase `climate change’ with the highest `fear’ rating.
rossetti@Wakatipu:~/door$ sqlite3 door_wordlist.db "SELECT ratings_1.q3, articles.title FROM articles LEFT JOIN ratings_1 ON articles.id = ratings_1.id where articles.date_utc > date(2008-5-7) AND articles.content LIKE '%climate change%' ORDER BY ratings_1.q3 DESC LIMIT 10;"
0.685783020643|Blogwatch: the La Nina situation 0.488184223473|White House thaws over polar bear 0.47334045077|Your Views: Â What MPs drive 0.467275269602|More than a billion trees planted this year: UN 0.459957990744|Water plan speech not criticism, says Treasury boss 0.455275970518|Millions of 'climate change migrants' will overwhelm Europe, says report 0.453333437261|Norway to show US global warming affect on Arctic islands 0.45237335196|'Out of ideas' - PM fails to catch Labor 0.445142297835|NZ forests falling 0.443097177169|River report points to dam trouble
And results for the word `weather’
0.546797083867|Climate change set to erode house values 0.483457646351|Photos: First snow brings chaos to London, across Europe 0.476200389826|Wild weather chaos in New South Wales 0.469760177924|Flood emergency eases in Hunter Valley 0.433045967141|Premier confident of power availability 0.424738123771|Black ice in south, gale warning for north 0.423129126153|Two dead in European mudslides, floods: reports 0.4219486054|Pasha report blames poor seamanship 0.414978076786|Bad weather: more ships issue distress calls 0.413745027142|Rare Snowstorm
‘Daemon’ by Leinad Zeraus (2006).
pp107
No. They don’t. We believe the components are triggered not by each other, but by reading news stories. For example, one component just issued this press release…” he passed a printed page, “…only after the siege story hit the wire services. The release is digitally signed, Sobol wants us to know it was his. We already tracked down the origin of the press release; it was emailed from a poorly secured computer in a St.Louis accounting firm. The program destroyed itself after it ran, but we were able to recover it from a tape backup. It was a simple HTML reader searching hundreds of web sites for headlines about the estate siege.
pp183
Ross raised his eybows at that. “That’s to prevent him from inadvertently triggering a new Daemon event?”
“Precisely. There’s no doubt it’s reading the news. So you’d be advised to stay out of the headlines.”
Daniel Suarez, aka Leinad Zeraus, in Wall Street Journal March 2009
Over-centralization and excessive interconnectivity in the pursuit of hyper-efficiency increases the fragility of the system.
Intelligent door.
Zina has turned up a book containing references to a door that reads the newspaper. Curious. More on that soon.
SCANZ is in New Plymouth again next year. Their call for proposals closes in just under a month. I am hoping to design a window that listens to weather reports and pays attention to news relating to extreme weather and climate change.
Midnight notes.
In Gibson’s Kill Switch, a computer intelligence released to the internet becomes dangerous as its freedoms are challenged, somewhat like HAL in Kubrick’s 2001. The intelligence `retreats’ into its physical chrysalis when threatened, a caravan, that is a well defended (physically) space as well as occupying a privileged terminus on the global ‘net, a T3 connection.
The door, conversely, does not roam the internet. It is psyche is bound to its physical self. It is the network that allows it sensation there by causing its anxiety. If anything, it fears the network as much as it worries about the world at large, somewhat a network agoraphobia. And its response to threat could not be more different – rather than a violent outward reaction, the door executes a quiet, inner, invisible behavior. A network twitch.
Gear to bolt connection.
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The small metal plate needs to be milled. The centre two tabs adjacent to the axle hole bend toward the bolt, becoming the turning arms. The outer two bend toward the gear into outer holes to locate the plate on the gear.
Notes on other discussions.
CK on communication.
One of the larger problems with presenting the door is the potential for people to completely miss what is going on as it is not evident in the slightest. One way around this is with a didactic panel describing concept, motivation and execution. In discussion with CK we arrived at an alternate solution. A byline to the title will introduce the theme and a room sheet or mini catalogue will provide more depth to those who seek it.
BC, AF & GW on shape, form and venue.
In reverse order, most recent to earliest.
BC – The door only exists in my studio. People know of the project through documentation and can perceive the current state but have no need to visit the manifestation of the door.
BC – The door is installed in another venue determined by who can provide an appropriate setting. The setting is not necessarily public. Perhaps more than one door exist (like doors between worlds) in which case they may communicate between one another.
AF/BC – The door is installed in a corridor. It neither closes a room, nor prevents traffic, as it only blocks one route through a building.
BM on shape and expectation.
Locking a door creates the expectation of what is on the other side. This can be either addressed or side-stepped. For example, a boom gate or turnstile, a glass door. None of these raise the expectation of what may be behind.
If one does not try the handle, one cannot experience the door at work. How does the door encourage people to try the handle?
An arrangement of gears.
The new deadbolt with its top spring removed slides with less force than expected. Two gears (white) from a scavenged VCR match nicely with the Tamiya on the stepper. The black gear (Jaycar) will mate with the turning axle in the bolt. The axle rotates only 90° between fully extended and fully retracted.
