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birthdays | |
April 25th, 2024 | |
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Today is my wife's birthday. We're heading into the city to find | |
tacos, some vinyl, and see some art installations for Design | |
March. Is Design March[0] a thing in other places? I'm really not | |
sure if it's a local-only or if it's world-wide. It's pretty neat: | |
art installations in March all over the city. Except it's April, | |
almost May, but they didn't change the name. No idea why. | |
[0] Design March | |
My friends Lejla and Natalia built an installation called | |
InStability[1] which is about the earthquakes and detection systems | |
in the Reykjanes penninusla where we live. The piece is a giant | |
tactile map of the penninsula. You can touch the land anywhere | |
with your finger to create an earthquake there. As you do so | |
you'll see all of the earthquake detection sensors around the | |
country light up as your shockwaves move across the surface. It's | |
really cool and immersive, and I got to help a little bit! | |
[1] InStability | |
Assembly required a lot of textile work, and I'm apparently the | |
local sewer. Over the course of a few nights we stitched a lot of | |
capacitive and pressure-sensitive fabrics together in patches. | |
I can't wait to see the final product on display later today. | |
Today is also the first day of summer in Iceland, so it's a school | |
holiday. We'll go see some parades and there will probably be | |
pop-up concerts. I have a holiday vacation day today, so it's | |
going to be Fun Family Timeā¢. | |
Here we go! |