Mapping Colonialism, Talk on 4/9
This saturday I’ll be dipping in briefly to the Counter-Counter Insurgency Convergence, at Reed College. Given my current work with community mapping, I’m very interested to see what Geoffrey Boyce...
View ArticleTopographic maps from fled kites
I just started building fled kites, but my fellow Grassroots Mapper Nathan Craig is already doing 3D topographic scans with them. He’s using AgiSoft’s PhotoScan, which is unfortunately not open source,...
View Articlescientific, photographic, and person-lifting kites, 1900-1940
Baden F.S. Baden-Powell’s Manlifting Levitor. 1895. No photos or film I can find. Was it flat or bowed? Charles Lamson’s Aerocurve, 1901 Samuel Franklin Cody’s Bat 1901 The best film is actually...
View ArticlePublic Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!
At the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, of which I’m a co-founder, we’ve just been awarded $500,000 by the Knight Foundation. Congrats to all my co-founders, Jeff, Sara, Shannon,...
View ArticleMutoscope for Fernando, on the SIP Blog
My work for the Public Laboratory is partially funded by a grant from the Shpilman Institute for Photography, who’ve featured my Mutoscope on their blog. Great images I haven’t posted here.
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