Public Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!
At the** Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science**, of which I’m a co-founder, we’ve just been awarded $500,000 by the Knight Foundation. Congrats ...
Recent Posts
scientific, photographic, and person-lifting kites, 1900-1940
Baden F.S. Baden-Powell’s Manlifting Levitor. 1895. No photos or film I can find. Was it flat or bowed?
Topographic maps from fled kites
I just started building fled kites, but my fellow Grassroots Mapper Nathan Craig is already doing 3D topographic scans with them. ** He’s using **AgiSoft’s P...
Kite Fishing in Indonesia & Melanesia
Traditional Kite fishing in Indonesia, using the motion of a kite to give bait a constant motion. ** A little more history here**. I think this is the one of...
Mapping Colonialism, Talk on 4/9
This saturday I’ll be dipping in briefly to the Counter-Counter Insurgency Convergence, at Reed College. Given my current work with community mapping, I’m v...