think demux

As they say in Australia. That’s round the other side of the Earth from me right now. Hello from space stilts!

You could send a satellited message like the one above with geoGreeting. It peers down from Google Maps to spell things out with letter-shaped buildings.

Neat, huh?

But there’s a blinking frost about the astro cyclops. We want more freedom to play, less unsolicited surveillance.

Melanie Coles ran free and got drawing on the Earth over in Vancouver. Now we can do find and seek with the satellites instead. Suddenly they seem more friendly. 

(via Neil Perkin . Thanks, Neil. I hope you don’t mind this friendly reference.)

The Canadian art student challenges you to Where’s Waldo using a rooftop and Google Maps. Puts a whole different perspective on geotagging. Paint your tag on buildings instead.

But you’re reading this online. I expect you won’t go square-eyed and anti-social working with pixels.

So let me ask you - do you upload pictures to Flickr? Flickr does geotagging. There’s been geotagging for years - and on a lot of photos. Put those photos together and we’re getting something approaching an Earth-sized 3D digital map.

If this is beginning to sound like alienspeak, I refer you to a far brighter earthling.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas gave the world a glimpse of Photosynth last year at TED. I had to rub my eyes.

Hold tight to to your stilts. Then be sure you watch this. We’re gazing into a distant future. But it’s not light years away, my friend.

I’ve been switching lanes on the walk home. Still can’t believe I never noticed this before on Old Street. Apparently there are others around town.

The body as building. It’s not a new one, but you’ve got to love it. The Central London Osteopathy and Sports Injury Clinic made me think about my back in a way I hadn’t done before. I’m thinking about my back right now just writing about it.

The mind reeled onto this spot of body rocking by Publicis New York, seen on the blog of French maestros Marketing Alternatif a few days ago.

1. If your idea’s to do with the skeleton, use architecture

2. If it’s to do with the organs, take the appliances inside

That’s if you want to transform a building into a body, of course. Personally, at this moment, I’m more concerned with turning an empty juice carton into a drink. It’ll need some imagination.

Georges Perec had a magnificent beard. The sort of beard you’d write home about. And the man behind the beard had a fine collection of ideas.

One runs like this: living in an apartment where there is one room for each day of the week. In each room, you undertake the tasks or pastimes your routine tends to on that given day.

I’m writing on a Wednesday. What would you need in your Wednesday room? I’d be comfortable with an armchair, a desk and a record player.

But if I wanted to meet friends or involve other people, I’d run in to difficulty. If I needed the toilet would I piss out the window?

Perec’s magnificent mind takes us out of this particular tangle and into another idea: dispersion.

Instead you have places scattered across town for your different functions. It’s not routine-specific. You’d need some energy, a good pair of legs, and to be driven by the desire to do things rather than the habit that comes from doing them out of routine or necessity.

Which would you prefer?

You might find it says a lot about you. Right now I’m in my Wednesday room. But I’d happily be hopping across town.