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Space Replace… the delayed echo of human activity

By Mark | March 9, 2014

I guess it was just a matter of time before British artists would turn to The Prisoner for inspiration and revive the dreaded rover. The incredible and terrifying piece, which, in the video above, is seen following people through a London subway station, recording and playing back their conversations, is the work of the Royal […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged ambient sound, Arduino, art projects, domestic spying, echo of human activity, England, floating black sphere, Francesco Tacchini, helium, Julinka Ebhardt, privacy, Royal College of Art, The Prisoner, Will Yates-Johnson | 6 Comments

Hereditary shyness

By Mark | June 26, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with Clementine yesterday, between buckets of beer at German Park. I’d been encouraging her to go over and play with the nieces of a friend, who were about her age, and sitting at the base of a tree, building a lunch room for some tiny rubber hamster type things that […]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged anxiety, Clementine, Dan Richardson, Daniel Nettle, David Sloan Wilson, Ellen Siegelman, evolution, Evolution for Everyone, evolutionary tactics, fear of people, German Park, Grazyna Kochanska, insecurity, introverts, Jerome Kagan, Jonathan Cheek, just do it, look before you leap, natural selection, parenting advice, Pat Maynard, psychology, pumpkinseed sunfish, shy, shyness, sitters, social anxiety, social anxiety disorder | 19 Comments

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