Exploring Google at Mountain View
Few enterprises have become so embedded in the everyday life of people around the world as Google. From search engine to email service, from map for directions ...
Tag: space
Time Sellers: A Telecommunication Informal Economy in Urban Colombia
Time is gold. Minutes are money. Literally, in the streets of Bogota and other Colombian cities, you can buy minutes for hundreds of pesos. Selling time is one ...
Indie Games Pop-Up Video Arcades
Nurturing aesthetic experimentation and alternative forms of production, distribution and consumption, the indie game culture has grown in the past decade gaini...
City Lights: Walking Waller Creek on a Thursday Night
Although the city of Austin has many creeks that run across the city, as well as many bridges, they are rarely used at night. The potential of these areas for p...
Enduring Analog Printing Presses
The sound of the printing press was what at first called my attention. We were walking nearby the Plaza Santo Domingo in Mexico City downtown when a percussive ...
Parking at Free Wi-Fi Spots : Coffeehouses in a Networked Communication Environment
It is not just about coffee, it is more about the space, and in particular, about the “free” and “open” public/private space. The import...
The Transformations of Movie Palaces
Walking the Broadway at Los Angeles downtown turns into an investigation about the ruins of the 20th century entertainment industry. Footprints of movie palaces...