Moved from Tufnell Park to Mapledene Road, London Fields. No Country for Old Men and now no bike for poor me. Sluggish quarter for athletics, though travel to Oslo, Barcelona, Bologna and Turin allowed for several longer runs and rides in the first and last. Hermanos Gutierrez live and Daffodils from Jamie XX filled the airwaves.
To San Diego to start April and attend skills / EdTech conference ASU+GSV. Tendo launches skills library at skills.tendo.id – a wiki that allows anyone at add, define, edit and upvote a skill. Goal is to connect this to a payment-like way to issue verified skills. Zafiri published guides for Boulder, Auckland and Bristol. Athletics dormant but contemporary sculpture in Bentonville, Arkansas exercises.
Japan’s Futtsu gas-fired power station goes live with maximum capacity 5,040 megawatts (second largest gas-fired power station in world) and will integrate GE’s cloud-based platform Predix in No. 4 block (three GE gas turbines, 507 megawatts each). Intel will work with Predix to make manufacturing facilities more smart and connected. GE to build custom blades to retrofit 50-year-old power plant in Wedel, Germany.
June: 100m² monobrand showroom opened in Prague’s industrial Holešovice district, in partnership with exclusive agent, Konsepti. September: Taccia 2016 LED launched, returning to 1958 Castiglioni brothers design with plastic bowl reflector. Tate Modern devoted area of new Switch House to British designer Jasper Morrison, titling the collection Thingness with Superloon floor lamp and Luxmaster ceiling Light.
Musk gives Mars update (spacex.com/mars). SpaceX aims to transport 1m people to Mars over next 50-100 years using Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). Goal is to reduce cost per ton by 5 million percent. First test of Raptor: 3x thrust of Merlin. Anomaly in early September: pre-launch static fire of AMOS-6 Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex resulted in vehicle loss (upper stage oxygen tank failure).