Watched The Last Black Man in San Francisco. One skateboard ride down an SF hill and the whole city came back into my body. Next week I'm flying back for TechCrunch Disrupt with ~200 copies of SF ZINE. #timespace#ZINE#SF#Disrupt
In Linz, a bar owner handed me a sake I'd never heard of.
Our app drew the label perfectly.
Then wrote about granite instead.
That gap turned out to be the most interesting part.
#Linz#Zine
Two empty Freistädter bottles sit on top of a trash can instead of inside it.
In #Linz, deposit bottles are sometimes left within easy reach for people who collect them for the refund.
A small piece of street etiquette: leaving a little value behind for the next person.
#Zine
What does a city look like when you read it through what catches your eye, not through data? #Loftwork published a report on "BUYABUYA #SHIBUYA," a street walk we co-hosted in Tokyo.
https://t.co/tVM1PyqiUy #timespace#ZINE
Muse just took the Connect stage and moved off your phone. The glasses are the interface, Muse is the action layer, and your voice is the remote. The agent era finally has its keynote moment. 👀
Going to TechCrunch #Disrupt?
Our demo won't be in a booth. It'll be on the street.
Oct 13–15, we're scanning SF from Moscone to Jackson Square and editing it live into #SF/#ZINE.
If you're in town, let's walk.
People were surprised when I told them about the project.
We set up an editorial "office" right in Linz's main square, and had the whole thing printed at a local print shop.
The people from those European cities I mentioned share a similar kind of uniqueness with Linz. Not capitals, but places that take art and design seriously, home to a disproportionate number of innovators.
It's this practice of turning analog into digital, then bringing it back to analog again.
Through that, we're not just uncovering the cracks and insights even locals haven't noticed — we're handing them back to the city, in the form of a magazine.
We spend each day in dialogue with AI, weaving it into a physical local culture magazine. Printed at a local print shop. Handed out by our team, on the ground.
We wanted to turn all of Linz into a "magazine" — a living media. We started preparing for this back in July.
ZINE is an AI app: you scan the city with it, and that becomes raw material for articles.