Using the power of digital photos, common web tools and photo sharing sites we show you how Cassidy Curtis is documenting the changes to living breathing cities that's accessible to almost everyone with the click of a mouse.
When Google started taking street level photos for Google Maps, a lot of folks commented on what a wonderful historical tool it could be. The ultimate "digital archive" of cities, communities and neighborhoods accessible by anyone with a Internet connection and web browser. One would be able to go back and see how streets, stores, signs and city life change through time.
Now one doesn't need to be a huge corporation like Google to accomplish a similar task. In fact Cassidy Curtis through his site Graffiti Archaeology is doing just that. Recording and documenting the every changing landscape of graffiti within the cities or New York, LA, London and San Francisco.
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Posted by Will_Stutler on 09/04/2008 at 05:17:48 pm in Systm
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heres a thought that Pat might like (sorry Patrick just picking on you).....how about the two of you co-host the show
i know your a busy lady and might not beable to do it all the time or hell you might even think that this is the worst idea of all time
i think you have the talent to do it as do many others
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Posted by Serafina on 09/04/2008 at 03:46:41 pm in Systm
I can't help to think Revision needs to decide on what kind of show Systm is going to be. If it's going to be a show about the unexpected and random technical episode. That's ok, I don't even know if a DIY show has a market big enough to pursue or if Systm ever claimed to be a DIY show. I sure thought it as one, and want it to be one.
please just tell me, what is Systm future. What's the plan? what is systm about? I don't know it from watching the show.
You guys all bring up good points. We hear you. Thanks for sticking with us while we figure things out. :)
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Posted by haku on 09/03/2008 at 01:34:30 pm in Systm
I have to wholeheartedly agree with the previous two posters, more actual 'getting your hands dirty' shows please, the projects don't have to be over-complicated to be useful or fun.
BTW I literally fell asleep watching this grafitti photography episode, the fact I didn't have enough sleep last night may have contributed but if I had found it interesting I'd have made it through to the end.
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Posted by pixelator99 on 09/03/2008 at 11:55:30 am in Systm
hmm. This would have been a good episode for one of the other Revision 3 shows, that showcase various websites and such..
Systm is supposed to be about building stuff and hardware hacking. Please give us some more DIY projects.
do you need some ideas? I am sure if you ask you could get a ton of them.
I would like to see:
a small cheap wireless NAS box (I want to put a backup drive in a hidden closet or the attic somewhere so that if I get robbed again, I will have a backup of my info, and I dont want a bunch of wires running around. It has to be robust enough not to overheat or get clogged with dirt sitting in a closed in space)
cheap MediaExtender box that can sit on my HDTV and talk to my media center computer in the other room, again: wireless. Maybe a way to convert an old laptop into a media extender?
A do it yourself security system built from webcams (wireless would be nice here too!) with motion detecting and recording.
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Posted by scosmic on 09/03/2008 at 11:19:58 am in Systm
I'm a 33 yr old American artist living in Northern Thailand, at the moment. Electronics are cheap, here, and I'm getting into all the stuff I used to do when I was a kid, like taking apart things and blowing them up because I wasn't sure what connecting this to that would do, and my family was smart enough to always pay extra for the "unconditional warranty".
Way back when, "surround sound" was two wires with electrical tape-spliced rca(composite) jacks coming out of my television instead of going to the speaker, plugged into the input of my stereo, and feeding out to 6 or 8 speakers around my room. (the tv had one of those analog clicking dials! I had a vcr and got so lucky to get a black box to descramble cable. I had it WAY better than my parents, in my own little cave room in the basement!)
I also had a trs-80.
I miss all that tinkering around, and I am glad to find a resource to demonstrate some basic principles that I can expand upon, myself. I've got a lot of time to play around with stuff, and this "channel" seems to be great. The show about distilling my own alcohol seemed really promising, since I've been studying that, too. The alcohol here, in Thailand sucks! Sure Singha is great, but I miss Corona, and Newcastle, and all sorts of things, I can't get here.
The episode on distilling alcohol, wasn't very informative at all, however! Go buy a water distiller, have a bucket of apple cider, throw some yeast in, and then keep moving the bucket from the counter to the floor several times, and stare at some cleavage (it was nice, by the way, but I have internet access, I don't really need to see that here, where I'm trying to learn something). Patrick kept on subject, for the most part,...but there was no real content to that episode.
No Problem, I'll find that information somewhere else. But that makes me wonder what the point of wasting mine and your time is, if I have to go somewhere else to figure out what you're not telling me?
Wow, There's also half a dozen episodes on how to build a video game cabinet. How often am I going to use that? I've already got three or four different system emulators I don't use.
I like that you can do shows about hacking, that's useful. Why not do more shows about how we, the lay person can beat the system and make all of these things ourselves from components that we would otherwise overpay for in the stores. Why should we have to pay the idiot tax. We could build that stuff! You could show us how. Isn't that what your show is supposed to be for? I'd like to grow a little bit. Keep on learning things. I'm starved for it.
Here's a soapbox, let me point out that American schools are only meant to educate the average person...If you're too dumb, or too smart, you are considered a problem, and they treat you EXACTLY the same way, whether you are too dumb or too smart. I know because my sister was too dumb, and we compared notes...HAha!
personally, I'd like a way to project my laptop on the wall dirt cheap, and all those diy kits seam bogus. It would be great to see how to do it with an overhead projector. I have an LCD screen, though. And you would have to show the parts, so I can print the screen and take it to what passes for radio shack here, in Thailand...
This "channel" is borderline incredible...the opportunity you guys have to undermine all this BS about consumerism, is a big chance to stick up for those of us who have a little more intelligence.
Don't try to bring us down into the general population mentality.
Help us!!!
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Posted by ToadX on 09/02/2008 at 07:03:17 pm in Systm
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I completely agree. Props to Cassidy and his work, it's great, but it's not really what I want to see on Systm. gewthen said exactly what I was thinking when he said "I want more show where you build things from the bottom up or something that involves technical knowledge beyond just how to use or install a program. "
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Posted by haku on 09/02/2008 at 06:33:02 pm in Systm
You know how Mythbusters do some really cool setups & experiments yet at the beginning of each show they say "Please...don't try anything you're about to see us do, at home." "Ever!"
I'd like it if Systm showed cool setups & step-by-step builds of things people are actively encouraged to try at home if it interests them.
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Posted by gobo on 09/02/2008 at 11:44:18 am in Systm
I'd imagine these "filler" episodes are because Patrick has been having a brutal time getting that projector done.
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Posted by SamH on 09/02/2008 at 11:29:30 am in Systm
It's getting harder and harder to watch the show. It has really changed from what it used to be. What happened to actually showing you how to do diy tech project? I don't want someone to sit there and blab about something i want to see it. Tekzilla is becomming more interesting than systm. If something isn't changed systm may find itself cancled due to low viewers. Please go back to the way it used to be. . . it was a much BETTER show!
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Posted by AKalair on 09/02/2008 at 10:09:47 am in Systm
Is this episode a joke?
I watched 10 mins then stopped.
If it was even building a wall to paint on it would be better.
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