
"Have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
~ Steve Jobs
Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.
Augmented City 3D from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
by Keiichi Matsuda
keiichimatsuda.com
The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us.
Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation of virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole. It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from 'reality'. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as an immersive human-computer interface.
Shot using a Samsung Fascinate. Edited in Photoshop CS4 and Picnik in Flickr.
The super yacht "A" sails into Santa Barbara harbor this morning (82910). This German-built, €150M luxury yacht opened up both stern compartments and let out speedboat tenders. "A" is owned by Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian energy billionaire and financier. She's over 118 meters long and sports three swimming pools!

1965 Children's Parade, Old Spanish Days (Fiesta), Santa Barbara, California

The left picture is an excellent example of the drastic approach 60’s fashion took from the plain and basic look of the 50’s male from looking “like soldiers” as they headed off to work in their almost identical suits to experimentations of all kinds (LIFE: The ‘50s 1998).
Note the hanging bee on top of Pa's head. Jerry Rankin, City Editor, at right, laughs.
Rusty contemplates herself as the true Zen Master cleverly incarnated as a household cat.