“Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.” But, it can be a little tricky to get running… Attempting to install Scrapy on […]
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About to embark on some new projects here in Berlin. Here’s my reading list at the moment… Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson July 7th 2009 by Hyperion Traditional economics operates under fundamental assumptions of scarcity–there’s only so much oil, iron, and gold in the world. But the online economy is […]
I’ve been trying for a few hours to run a Python script from The Sunlight Foundation Labs which downloads (and updates) a campaign finance database from the Center for Responsive Politics. See their original post for more information. In the process of getting this working I accidentally broke a working copy of MySQL and overwrote […]
ISEA2010 RUHR Conference in Dortmund, Germany P26 Public Interventions Tue 24 August 2010 15:00–16:30h Volkshochschule Dortmund, S 137a Moderated by Georg Dietzler (de) 15:00h | Owen Mundy (us): Automata: Counter-Surveillance in Public Space 15:20h | Christoph Brunner (ch/ca), Jonas Fritsch (dk): Balloons, Sweat and Technologies. Urban Interventions through Ephemeral Architectures 15:40h | Georg Klein (de): […]
Howdy, it’s been awhile since I last shared news about recent and ongoing projects. Here goes. 1. You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore is an installation that projects moving US Geological Survey (USGS) satellite images using handmade kinetic projection devices. Each device hangs from the ceiling and uses electronic […]
I am very much enjoying the video my friend, Asa Gauen, is working on for You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore, which is installed at AC Institute in New York until July 31. […]
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Katherine Sweetman, has just posted a great video documenting the Lucent project we did at the University of California, San Diego. […]
A deconstruction of defense contractor website data structures. […]
You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore opens tonight at AC Institute in Chelsea. July 1 – July 31, 2010 Opening: Thursday, July 1, 2010 6-8pm AC Institute [Direct Chapel] 547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor New York, NY Gallery Hours: Wed., Fri. & Sat.: 1-6pm, Thurs.: 1-8pm […]
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Here are a couple installation shots of You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore leading up to the AC Direct installation in New York. Everyone should be so lucky to have a retired shop teacher for a father in law! […]
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