Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Fast City (22 May 2003) In Fast City, Don Bosco creates a witty, combinatorial mosaic portrait of modern urban life and modern urban lives that take the form of 60 lexias which appear on the image of a PDA. One can "play" the PDA, creating an assemblage of texts, and one can also create one's own dub music by manipulating the buttons. Mousing over each of the 60 X's at the right of the PDA produces a snippet of urban sound and brings up a connected text, each a mini-portrait of life in the Fast City -- the out-of-work surveillance expert looking at the classifieds, urbanites assembling a home entertainment center, kids playing video games, dance-clubbers immersing themselves in the banbangbang of "guitaristic assaults," the fashion model on the runway, and the soldier back for R&R: lives and deaths, all permeated by modern media. Article URL: http://tekka.net/02/?FastCity Read 53 more articles from Tekka sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Feature: Designers' Roles in Communicating with Users This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy