Greetings from #rdcHQ! We are making steady progress on our Gegenschein Time Capsule Project. We’ll have many announcements regarding the project in the coming months, so stay tuned! We’re pushing back our internal Pre-Alpha deadline to the end of the year given our current schedule. The evolving contents will be on display in our street level gallery throughout 2015 so drop by Point.B Studio and check it out!

Tentative design for Time Capsule Etching shown above

We’re also catching up on the scanning backlog for Port Orford Historical Photos. We have a collection of old postcards that we’ll be adding to the archive, many that we have never seen before. Watch this space for updates!

A Time Capsule Update From #rdcHQ! As is customary at Rural Design Collective Headquarters, things really start hopping as the season gets going … and in this case, quite literally, growing! A wonderful new time capsule addition has been contributed by artist Nathan Malamud and he has written an impressive score to his original composition “I Liberate Thee” using the open source program musescore. It is an impressive piece of work and we are privileged to have it included in our Gegenschein Time Capsule.

We’ll be imaging this work to mylar for inclusion in the time capsule as well as preserving a recording of the work. We’re hoping that the digital format we choose will be compatible with technology 100 years from now!

Greetings from #rdcHQ! We’re having an excellent time this summer at Rural Design Collective Headquarters. Most notably, we’re working on the Gegenschein Time Capsule project which is now tentatively scheduled for an end of the year installation. This evolving project is currently on display in the street level gallery at Point.B along with our 351-Centennial exhibit. Scenes from last weekend’s Port Orford Jubilee and the Art Walk are below – a great time was had by all! You can see more photos of the #351100 exhibit in progress here.

We have independent study and ongoing projects in the works and will be making new additions to Port Orford Historical Photos which was offline for a brief hiatus when we upgraded our network. Stay tuned for more announcements on projects and happenings from #rdcHQ!

Geetings from #rdcHQ! Our centennial is in full swing and we are celebrating with early maps of the Internet before its exponential growth that we are all so familiar with today. Below is an animation of the ihr skitter monitor created with a tool called Walrus (Young Hyun, author/artist) which is archived at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). These early visualizations are quite beautiful even if they are deemed inaccurate by folks in the know. They are now better categorized as abstract + art. We hope the Internet will be as dynamic, individualistic, free, open and beautiful 100 years from now as it appears in these early depictions.

This extraordinarily beautiful method of visualization has been deprecated by Archipelago (Ark).

In the meantime, more artists are confirming participation in the Gegenschein Time Capsule project. Next in the queue — an original musical composition by Nathan Malamud. The score and arrangement are being written in an open source music notation program called musescore. We are also investigating Soundslice (Adrian Holovaty, author/artist) in order to incorporate guitar tabulature.

Stay tuned!