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Be a search engine all weight champion. 5 minutes per day, results not
guaranteed. By Cesar Harada, thanks to Ross Cairns and Nicolas Myers, naughty boys.

==Define a nice identity for yourself==
Choose a good, relevant domain name : if you are a Ping-Pong racket maker, best it to have http://pingpongrakets.com as your domain.
Than it is a good idea to name each of your page, your sub-folders relevantly http://pingpongrakets.com/buy/nice_green_rackets.htm (with title “buy nice green Ping-Pong racket”),  so people would easily remember them and it will be indexed better.

==Submit your URL to Search engines and directory==
<b>submit your website to search engine</b>
Tell Google where to look,
http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl
Tell Yahoo where to look
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
Tell AltaVista
http://addurl.altavista.com/

<b>directories</b>
http://www.google.com/dirhp
http://www.dmoz.org/about.html
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html

==Cleaning your pages code==
<b>tag your pages properly, like Chris Woebken.</b>
<meta name=”description” content=”A young energetic designer exploring
Interaction Design”/>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Interaction Design, Experience Design,
Experiments”/>

==Spread the world==
<b>increase statistically the number of visits</b>
*make good works (that could be useful!)
*E-mail your friends (ask them to spread)

==Keep your visitors inside your website==
<b>increase the number of internal links</b>
Make people navigate inside your many pages.

==Get them into your website==
<b>increase incoming links</b>
*Propose your works to bloggers, make sure you have them in your newsletter.
*Official magazines and websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

==Install Google inside your website==
<b>Install an internal search engine in your website</b>
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

==Make yourself famous==
<b>wikipedia</b>
Have you written a good article about yourself on Wikipedia? No? Pay someone to do it!
<b>flickr</b>
Open a flickr account, post all your pictures in there, make friends,
ask your friends to comment the pictures to start the fuss
<b>youtube (dailymotion, vimeo, sevenload)</b>
<b>be on facebook, but with not your face as profile picture, post
your work in there instead of family and friends on holidays</b>

==Be a low grade hacker==
<b>social bookmarking (delicious, reader…)</b>
Create multiple identity on socialbookmarking sites and comment (from
your different identities) how amazing your stuff is!

==Stop being hacker, be polite with robots==
<b>map out, clean directory</b>
Create web crawlers readable directory listing:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
<b>Create a map of your website</b>
http://www.mypagerank.net/

==Using Google==
<b>analytics</b>
Install google to track your visitors
https://www.google.com/analytics
optimize languages , operating system according to your visitors profiles, geolocalizing their IP adress.

==Publish fake stats about your popularity==
http://www4.clustrmaps.com/
Take still images from other websites stats map and embed in your ownpage (with a broken link to source of course).

==Become Google bitch==
<b>ad word</b>
https://adwords.google.com/

==Be everybody’s bitch==
Stop programming your website, use a CMS (Content Managing System) that automatically includes you in its directories, such as Indexibit
http://www.indexhibit.org/participants/

==Be a slave to the machine==
Make sure your RSS feed has always something new everyday or more
frequently, attach yourself to the machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

==Invade==
<b>more domains</b>
buy more domains
<b>more subdomains</b>
create more sub.domains
<b>Create Linkfarms</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm
And the nastiest way to invest in linkfarming in buying other people “expired” domains names (that’s evil) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGvEoYjFlRc

==Be a thief : Republish good articles, talk about famous people and events==
Copy-paste good articles from major websites. Prefer the one with quite famous topics, and even better : republish access-limited websites (learn also to be “anonymously famous” at that point).

==Pollute the “real” unsustainable earth==
Buy the medias, print giant colourful posters and stick them in the streets, sponsor events, publish derivated products like puppets, open a charity, shake the hands of major states presidents, top models, actors, popes and soccer players, making sure your URL is always visible, even humbly in each of these cases, the subliminal at work.

==Become a hacker again==
<b>redirection </b>
Redirect the pages you don’t like, or pages everyone goes and redirect
them to the one you want
<b>mirror</b>
Mirror the pages you don’t like, or pages everyone goes and redirect
them to the one you want
<b>cloak</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
and drink enough to forget how naughty you are.

==Loose your friend==
<b>spam</b>
Send everyday thousands of email to promote your work, don’t forget to use a signature engine to protect your indentity …
http://mairas.net/projects/sigeng/
you will need something like this, but better !
<b>Micro-blogging, twitter, tumblr, moodblast</b>
Publish tiny pieces of thoughts, personal feelings, all the time, to everyone, force people to RSS your content.

==Go to jail==
<b>homemade bot</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
Buid one in your backyard!

==Change your life==
<b>now you are in jail, you have no friends, but you are at the top of
google results, well done!!!</b>

==Edit a CMS, get out of jail, be a charitable hotliner until death==
If you want to become a useful person again in the society you can program design frameworks and content management systems for others, debug version after version, translate in many languages and multiple platforms. After all the evil you have done to the world, you can start to empower others, make sure there is a link to your CMS editor website (in a Wordpress fashion).

==A quick call to Larry or Sergey==
Just ask them directly, they are nice guys aren’t they?!!

==Build something more powerful than google==
Just try.

==But hey, you cant do better than this?==

Today Google released the ice-cream background for email accounts… this feature is just.. TOO POWERFUL… Nothing you can do against this… Too cuuuute !!!!!!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH Google’s got my soul!

Let’s combine all this stuff together! Pachube, Arduino, GPS, Gumstix, Weatherstation

URBAN SPACE STATION Sofia, Madrid 2008 from cesar harada on Vimeo. All documentation on http://urbanspacestation.org.

OSC/ChucK soundtoy sketch from Chris Hand on Vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/1445199

Turn up the volume, full-screen, comfy, ready for a basic synesthetic experience? I like so much!

Scattered House, Usman Haque & Adam Somlai Fischer from cesar harada on Vimeo.

“[source] Scattered House is an architectural experiment founded on a truly contemporary notion of space, where issues of ubiquitous connectivity, family diasporas, design-by-occupant, and public control technology come together in an installation assembled from inexpensive electronic toys and gadgets. 
We are inviting members of the public to visit the Hungarian Cultural Centre and contribute to elements of the “house” —  they can either bring toys and gadgets that will become part of the amalgamated whole or we will also have a selection of items that they can try hacking themselves. Architects and interaction designers Adam Somlai-Fischer and Usman Haque, authors of the online manual “Low Tech Sensors and Actuators” [download 1MB], will be on hand to advise and assist in this process, as well as Bengt Sjölén, artist from Stockholm.
The three day event will be suitable for families and accompanied children, as well as design (or non-design) students who would like to be part of the event. The public will help design and build fragments of the interactive “Scattered House” which will be exhibited internationally later in the year. People will be able to open up toys and gadgets (that they have either brought along or which are provided for them), gain a simple understanding of how they work, and learn how to connect them directly into the installation themselves.  
No experience is necessary, though enthusiasm for hacking open toys is welcome!”

It was a brilliant experience, I just regret I don’t have so much footage of the installation at the Hungarian Embassy, but a lot of interview instead, so here is a quite similar experiment the same people did, if you want to see more in detail the hacked electronic components: 

Reconfigurable House 2 at Place@Space at Z33.be from Adam Somlai-Fischer on Vimeo.

[source : technology review]

This week, IBM announced plans to build the world’s largest “noise free” nanoelectronic fabrication facilities in Switzerland. By shielding equipment from external electromagnetic, thermal, and seismic noise, the new facilities should help advance research in a wide range of fields, such as spintronics, carbon-based devices, and nanophotonics, says IBM.

“Once you move into atomic-scale research, you are dealing with very low energy levels, and so you need very sensitive instruments,” says Kaiserswerth. And the more sensitive the instrument, the more responsive it is to disturbances in the environment. “Every time we bought a new piece of equipment,” says Paul Seidler, IBM Zurich’s science and technology manager, “we would find ourselves having to think hard about which lab was most suitable.” {by Duncan Graham-Rowe for Technology Review, Friday, June 27, 2008}

[source of the image]

I find this very interesting that IBM needs this kind of facility for new technologies : seeking an absolute model of precision to cope with Moore’s law as if it was a production imperative… I think I am going in the precise opposite direction of IBM, by letting entropy increase, extremely noisy architecture. Giving space to nature and openess in the experiment we might obtain non-mesurable yet invaluable results.

Still I think a clever compromise between chaos and order must be found, the Urban Space Station Sofia (june 2008) in Madrid is one, but I can’t stop thinking of alternatives, or derivated, that may be more in the “jungle” direction, even more open, cheaper, progressive, informal… The way is open in front of us.

Today I waited for the meeting with the scientists to happen, and I waited, and I waited … So I decided to enjoy myself learning 3D with sketchup! Whaaaat ???!!! You haven’t downloaded it yet???!!! It’s free, it’s amazingly simple, it’s google, I did all the video tutorials today, I am not a pro at all, but I see things in 3D now! I do dream in 3D in a nice simple interface, aaaaaaaaaahhhhh soo good, so much fun …

So, you know how naughty I am, when I have this much, I want much more… I want

SketchyPhysics for mac!!! Please develop it, Google, I know you hear me, I am not the only one, pleaaase!

Waaah, I’m almot crying looking at this video, so great!!! PIANO!!
Ah, of course, for those who can’t wait [like I], enjoy SODACONSTRUCTOR, by soda.co.uk, amazing as well, java, free, download for both mac and PC. If you want to know more about computer physic engine, check out the wikipedia article, and more geekerie here about procedural Design for the tough ones (wiki of the students from North Carolina State University, well done).

Oh, and of course, before I forget “Morphogenesis: Shaping Swarms of Intelligent Robots“, IRIDIA code of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, amazing.

Now in your mind combine the [ Sketchyphysics + swarm intelligence robotics + some light-weight powerfull graphic engine like open GL on a minimal operating system like symbian ] …IMAGINE!

ooops, 6:20 AM, time to sleep!

So these are the relations we can easily sense and affect, the interactions. But as I explained my research to Angel Borrego Cubero, he explained me, I did not fully understand yet, or I presented the system too unfolded:

The system are on inside the other, the universe contains the solar system, we are interested in the sun, the moon and the earth, a building, the Urban Space Station, the plants and the human inside. The relation first described as parasitic between the Urban Space Station is NOT, it is a symbiotic relation since both actors are interested in the relation.

The installation aim is to convey an image of equilibrium, not of a dramatic dependence, a sense of comfort and curiosity should arise over a first-sight mysterious shape.

To make the relations between the element obvious it could be as simple as wiring together the elements, isolating the relations from “noise”, enabling precise measures too. A visitor could be located in the structure (green figure), being wired he would benefit from a constantly renewed quality of living : breathing OUT his oxygen-poor air at the entrance of the station, breathing IN the enriched air at near the exit. Even the surveillance guard of the museum could reclaim the use of the USS to enhance his/her working conditions! hehehe!

The interacting visitor could have a symbiotic relation to the station could also be located out of the station (red figure), but it would make a very different statement and would cause hygenic hazards with many visitors…

In my mind the symbiotic relation has to be extended  and made as obvious as possible, from the universe to the plant or human, not to remain a fancy greenhouse, let’s wire it up, so we can measure and make a study of the controlled environment, a true Space Station

Aristotelian conception of the universe that preceded the models of Copernicus and Thomas Digges.

The USS is a symbolic representation of our universe, yet If a human was to act as a part of the organism, he shouldn’t be associated with the biblical figure of Adam (without Eve unfortunately!) but as a “neutral” living organism within a bigger organism.

Also the objects that we use to wire up the different actors can look really good and make the whole concept very self-explanatory.

good night day 2!

As far as I understood, we are not going to show the whole thing, but more a model of the system, just a model to explain the system. There will not be 2 structures, but one communicating with the outside; the air system of the pillows and the air system of the greenhouse rotation are distinct. So my task isn’t clearly defined : functional engineering or just prop’ / system explaination with nice graphics? Well, it is up to me, if I come up with a great system that is simple to implement, than we can do it, else, we’ll just carry on and try to build this as well as possible.

Ok, I need to make it simple, show the circuit that holds all the variables :

Ok, if this is to be re-used, I need to make it look good, and more clear:

Ok, great, now everything is as clear as a subway system map. We can sense and control each “line” running between the World - the Urban Space Station - Human, it quantity, quality, even nature, the following post will contain proposals of apparatus, BUT …

THE ARCHITECTURE IS JUST MAKING LIFE FUNCTION OBVIOUS (protecting, extending the human Body limits, embodying functions in technical objects, isolating and specialising objects)…
- HOW OBVIOUS DO WE WANT TO GET?
- HOW MUCH DO WE WANT TO MANIPULATE AND CONTROL (when change and difficulty is engine of progress and evolution, where is optimization? That’s an ethical and/or political statement, and as it it not my work, what should be my influence
- HOW FAR CAN BE THE ARCHITECTURE (in its obviousness) BE CHANGED FROM THE ORIGINAL PROJECT (optimized, functions made obvious) EXTENSION OF THE ARCHITECTURE DOMAIN? LET’S MAKE MORE THAN A GREEN HOUSE -> TOWARD MEDICAL AND AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY?.

We are eternally computing with the universe so … OK, let’s make a list of tecnical artefact proposals that could optimize the system functions, may it be ironical…

The Space station consist of two distinct objects, linked via ETFE (magic plastic!), one on the roof of the buidling and has “legs”, the other is on one of the floor below, looking more like a smooth croissant. In both of them there are hydroponic vegetal cultures, people visiting, and potentially animals, turbines, energy harvesting systems… The air is flowing between both the stations pulsed by electrical propellers with solar-power sources, the hydroponic water is the building’s dirty water (when you wash your hands, this dirty water goes to the greens). One of the simple facts is that the mutual presence of human and vegetals is beneficial to both parts may it be about water or air quality, what is waste to one is nutriment to the other etc.

First I need to understand what are the actors and variables I will need to compute, sense and perhaps “control”:

The actors (also to be counted as variables), re humans, greens, pipes (I mean the installation in general as living organism), perhaps some fishes or birds, we’ll see.

As variables, there is also:
-Air (quantity, flow, and hygrometry)
-Water
-Light (sun, artificial)
-Nitrogen (as energy or nutriment
-Temperature
-Pressure
-I am sure I am forgetting plenty, let’s start with those…

The simplified practical objective of the installation is to optimize the collaboration between these actors and factors in a controlled environment. And now I dream that we can produce useful data for planners, architecture optimization methods, real-space program solutions… Exciting!

Proposition 1 - average nominal value, reset every specimen unit system.

My first observation is that these living things all have slightly different requirements : the human want to have this temperature, the green want to

have this temperature, the animals need this hygrometry … this implies that every life has its own nominal condition
When I look at our unit system, it is very physic centered : the temperature in degrees C, has its scale and division determined by the different state of water, 0˚C freeze, 100˚C boil and turn into gas, same for volume, weight, everything… But to me it doesn’t seem to be fair: if we are humans, our unit should be ourself, so the nominal temperature for human could be reseted to “0˚humanC”, and for this flower “0˚flowerC”, and when it happen not to be nominal, we’d know instantly and would tend to correct. OK, that’s one unit per thing, maybe it is a weak unification system, but practically we can use it in the station to calculate an average of the different actors nominal conditions, if for human nominal is 22˚C and for the flower it is 26˚C, than we may “democratically” adjust the temperature to 26˚C for example. We need to add to this calculation the tolerance of each actor and the order of priority in the comfort : you may want to give priority to human in a museum, but priority to greens in a green house …

I think this calculation is pretty easy and we can determine quickly what is the average nominal conditions we want to have in our installation. Important remark : it is easier to dissipate energy than to harvest, for example, for the pulsing of the air powered by solar panel, we need to have a surface of solar panel able to provide the nominal electric current in the worst light conditions, if we have potential, it is easy to reduce, if we have less, we can’t magically produce more … So that means, we need to potentially produce excessive heat, hygrometry, square meters of air pulse per minute than we would probably ever need … BUT I don’t like to think like that, the math should not be computed and energy dissipated, the mecanical passive model should work autonomously ideally …

Proposition 2 - medical assistance, federal organism

As much as plants, humans can be partially transplanted. What we are doing in this architecture is that we are hooking up human system - plant system - draining system (hydroponics) - air system together in an architectural form. Maybe we can hook up things even more directly :

like using a mask and a urinary tube, quite like James Auger work :

Or use something more poetical with very little electric current embodying the esoteric idea of collective conciousness (”oversoul?”) including humans, plants, animals … etc everything together …?

or it could be done in a more raw fashion : connecting a freshly cut plant (like a white blooded ficus) to a human body :

or more simply, just inject with human medical tool: