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Guide to Proper Etiquette at Fast Food Restaurants by Nathalie Quagliotto
Submitted by on March 18, 2008 – 9:19 pm2 Comments

Guide to Fast Food

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About : Food restaurants share similar formats and functions of production for their customers in order to serve people better. These are created for efficient and fast access to ordering food and eating. But what kind of characteristics and relations do these offer for a paying customer?
With fourteen chapters in point form, this step-by-step guide gives you the experience of being the perfect Fast Food customer. The instructions that you will read about comment on proper habit, behavior, and relations that one could present to another person. Proper etiquette is necessary when communicating and relating to others in the public. Any person interested in the socialization of Fast Food culture can use this guide worldwide.

Published March 2008

Nathalie Quagliotto is an Italian Canadian artist. She has received her BFA from Concordia University in 2007 and is currently in the MFA program at the University of Waterloo investigating conceptualism and relational practices. This coming summer she will be apprenticing with the British artist Martin Creed.

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guide to proper etiquette at fast food restaurants is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License

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    I don't really know why, but I found the guide fascinating and hilarious. Actually, I do know…
    Comment posted on 9-25-2009 at 23:17
  • Guide to Etiquette « Anarchaeology
    [...] Fast Food restaurants share similar formats and functions of production for their customers in order to serve people better.…
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27Drums by T.Williams & S.Squire
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27Drums

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About : an introduction to drumming.

Published March 2008

Todd Williams (AKA Brass) is a renowned hip-hop MC and is also a youth worker. As ‘Brass’, he has performed alongside Sydney veterans SERECK of DEF WISH CAST and SINUS of band 1, 2 SEPPUKU, in the highly flammable hardcore act CELSIUS. He has released three albums.

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Market Day eBooks by Sarah Thelwall
Submitted by on February 21, 2008 – 5:14 pm3 Comments

Market Day eBooks

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MD 1 – before we start… A4 | US Letter PDF 168Kb
MD 2 – defining success A4 | US Letter PDF 690 Kb
MD 3 – what business are you in? A4 | US Letter PDF 174Kb
MD 4 – features and benefits A4 | US Letter PDF 1.7Mb
MD 5 – customer segmentation A4 | US Letter PDF 665Kb
MD 6 – marketing communications A4 | US Letter PDF 1.28Mb
MD 7 – setting sales and marketing objectives A4 | US Letter PDF 1.04Mb
MD 8 – tying up loose ends A4 | US Letter PDF 644Kb
MD 9 – communication methods A4 | US Letter PDF 225Kb

About : Market Day is a one day workshop for Creative Industries firms wishing to learn a DIY approach to marketing planning and delivery. This set of eBooks accompanies the day and outlines each of the activities in the workshope. This enables participants to refer back to the eBooks whenever they want to repeat these marketing planning activities.

Published February 2008

Sarah Thelwall runs a small consultancy specialising in working with Creative Entrepreneurs on the development of their businesses. She uses a wide array of 3D objects as visual nmemonics for key learnings – the StoryCubes and eBooks are core tools in her various toolkits. For more information see http://acivilservice.blogspot.com and www.mycake.org

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    [...] The e-books can be downloaded here: http://diffusion.org.uk/?p=274 References [...]
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  • SARAH THELWALL
    Hi I am Sarah Thelwall -- I didn't know there was another!
    Comment posted on 10-28-2008 at 23:56
  • David G Preston
    Hey Found your booklets helpful. Unfortunately can't make it along to the workshops as have too…
    Comment posted on 4-9-2008 at 10:35

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Pask Parallels by Richard Brown
Submitted by on January 11, 2008 – 7:08 pm2 Comments

Pask Parallels

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About : Pask Parallels charts over a period of ten years, a series of Richard Brown’s art and research experiments which move between the analogue and the digital, resulting in the discovery of the work of Gordon Pask and culminating in the Pask inspired exhibition Maverick Machines. The title reflects a series of research and experiments that bear striking similarities to the electrochemical work of Pask yet were created without any knowledge of Gordon Pask or his work.

Published January 2008

Richard Brown has a BSc in Computers & Cybernetics and an MA in Fine Art (RCA) and creates interactive artworks using multi-media technology, computer programming, electronics and interfacing. Between 1995 and 2001 Richard was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, in the department of Computer Related Design, where he created and exhibited 3 major interactive works Alembic, Biotica and the Neural Net Starfish. In 2002-03 Richard was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the VCA and Melbourne University, and artist-in-residence at the Natural History Unit in the ABC, he is currently Research Artist in Residence in Edinburgh Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Richard’s work has been supported with awards and grants from Intel, Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust (Sci-Art) and in 2002 was awarded a two-year fellowship grant from NESTA (the National Endowment of Science Technology and the Arts).

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Image & Individual: Contemporary Responses to Manet’s ‘Olympia’ by Tarin Hughes
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Image & Individual

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About : Image & Individual: Contemporary Responses to Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is the title of a student exhibition at the Artery Gallery in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and the eBook accompanying the show as a catalog. The exhibition was the result of a three month student independent study with Andrew Hunter Director/Curator of Render at the University of Waterloo. Tarin Hughes was the student curator of the show and is the author of the eBook that details the objectives of the show and the artists that participated.

Published January 2008

Tarin Hughes is a fourth year fine arts student at the University of Waterloo focusing on art history and sculpture. She is exploring contemporary curating through her work with Andrew Hunter at Render and through the programing of U of W’s student run gallery, the Artery.

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A Manual for Maverick Machines by Karen Martin
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A Manual for Maverick Machines

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About : The Maverick Machines exhibition, curated by Richard Brown, displayed projects inspired by the work of Gordon Pask. Giles Lane and I created a set of large StoryCubes to illustrate various themes found in Pask’s work. This eBook describes those themes and the images contained on the StoryCubes.

Maverick Machines took place at the Matthew Gallery, Edinburgh School of Architecture in July 2007.

Published December 2007

Karen Martin’s work focuses on the interactions and inter-relations between people in urban environments, and the social, spatial and technological networks these form. Karen is currently an EngD candidate at University College London where she obtained an MSc Virtual Environments from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2003. www.prusikloop.org

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Kensington Walk by Kevin Flude
Submitted by on October 26, 2007 – 8:51 pmOne Comment

Kensington Walk

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About : a short walk on Kensington.

Published October 2007

Kevin Flude‘s main interests are the history, archaeology and Museums of London. He has been proprietor of And Did Those Feet (Cultural Heritage Resources) since 1982. It has allowed him the opportunity of working in a variety of fields in the Heritage world. He is currently Director of the Old Operating Theatre Museum in Southwark; Associate Lecturer at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London and Worcester University and Course Director for the Elderhostel programme in London which provides study tours. lectures and walks on the history, archaeology architecture and art of London.

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Critical Infrastructure Walking Guide by Jeff Maki
Submitted by on August 11, 2007 – 11:25 am2 Comments

Critical Infrastructure Walking Guide

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About : Critical Infrastructure is a walking/field guide intended for people who, as they move through the built urban environment, want to see and better understand infrastructure – and what stories these systems tell. The project was conceived during my time as an artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre New Media Institute.

Published August 2007

Jeff Maki is an artist and researcher based in New York City. Formally educated as an information technology professional in a liberal arts context, his work continues to exist in the arts, centered around technical and social systems. His tools and experience range from computer programming to spatial data analysis; photography to ethnography.

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This is not a book by Karen Martin
Submitted by on June 11, 2007 – 12:27 pmOne Comment

This is not a book

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About : a playful exploration of DIFFUSION, eBooks, StoryCubes and the DIFFUSION Generator.

Published June 2007

Karen Martin’s work focuses on the interactions and inter-relations between people in urban environments, and the social, spatial and technological networks these form. Karen is currently an EngD candidate at University College London where she obtained an MSc Virtual Environments from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 2003. www.prusikloop.org

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    I think your work is fascinating.
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Enter Conference Day 1 Blog Posts by Sean Dodson
Submitted by on April 26, 2007 – 11:50 amNo Comment

Enter Conference Day 1 Blog Posts

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About : blog posts by Guardian writer, Sean Dodson collated from the first day of the Enter Conference, Cambridge, April 2007 as part of Proboscis’ Public Authoring Zone.

Published April 2007

Sean Dodson is a writer and journalist for The Guardian.

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Enter Conference Participant eNotebook by Proboscis
Submitted by on April 25, 2007 – 11:57 amOne Comment

Enter Conference Participant eNotebook

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About : a participant eNotebook for conference delegates to record and share their experiences at Enter Conference, Cambridge, April 2007 made by Proboscis as part of the Public Authoring Zone.

Published April 2007

Proboscis is an artist-led creative studio based in London, UK.

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Design Management: a reinterpretation on the theme of Modes of Production and Design Hacking by Otto von Busch & Karl Palmas
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Design Management

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About to come

Published May 2006

bios to come

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This is Tomorrow by Gair Dunlop & Daniel Norton
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This is Tomorrow

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About to come

Published November 2004

bios to come

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Silence Dropped by Lucy Gibson
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Silence Dropped

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About : We cannot read the traces we leave behind as we walk in the urban sprawl, yet there is a recognition imprinted on the cognitive stratum that associates what we see before us as somewhere we have been before. Unlike the topographical representation of the map, the mind recalls these places within a framework of memory and association. Collating information and throwing back a flicker of a time passed when least expected; the human mind creates an emotive map of the urban centre, fabricated from stories, traces and chance occurrences.

This eBook was produced in repsonse to this site for the ARTitecture 2004 exhibition at the Collins Gallery, curated by Daisy Watson. It takes the site of the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland as a starting point for this site-responsive text.

Published June 2004

Lucy Gibson is an artist.

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Past Standing by Lucy Gibson
Submitted by on July 11, 2003 – 11:16 amNo Comment

Past Standing

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About : Two figures stand motionless in a courtyard. The City spins its daily routines around them as they stare fixedly at each other. Locked by a shared past but without any present, these two near strangers exist for each other only in memory yet their physical presence in this place is heightened because of their chance meeting.

Taking the hybrid public/private space of an office courtyard, ‘Past Standing’ is a fictional narrative that addresses the conflict between remembered time and real time. Moving between past and present tense, between memory and reality, it creates a space in which we can exist for a short time as we read. We join the other users of this square, spinning around the central characters, observing them from the varying perspectives of him, her and the CCTV camera.

Published July 2003

bio to come

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