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Principality of Sealand

Maunsell Forts

Another jewel from: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/.../30-abandoned-places…

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The Maunsell Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom.

They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for other activities. One became the Principality of Sealand; boats visit the remaining forts occasionally, and a consortium called Project Redsands is planning to conserve the fort situated at Redsand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts

Thanks to Rachaporn Choochuey for the link!

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西藏自治區 -拉薩 Lhasa, Tibet

Photo of the Day: June 5, 2013. An Editors' Pick from our 2013 Photo Contest.

Photo and caption by Shinya Itahana (Matsue, Japan); Photographed July 2012, Kham, Eastern Tibet

Link to the original (digital) image at: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts.../photo-of-the-day/...

A Nun Housing Complex in Eastern Tibet

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' sukhumvit. 49 '

...it is about digital sketching application.

There are so many applications around, so many people using them.But then there is only silly illustrations.

Cartoon-like, illustration-like. The concept of being abstract is totally unknown in this realm…

This is strange.

Although a very nice tool to make cute sketches, illustrations and the like, when you start to make abstract stuff, the digital tool becomes enormously powerful and an engine of fun...

One Thing I Do not Understand...

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China

In the Bubble...

The performances of Zhu Ming are filled with almost a lonely kind of pensiveness. Covered in paint, he enters the bubble often floating on water. The bubble is specially created for the piece and specifically designed to slowly fill with water. Soon the paint is washed off Zhu Ming’s body as he floats quietly alone…

Keep reading at: http://beautifuldecay.com/.../primordial-performance.../

More about Zhu Ming at:http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/zhu_ming_cv.htmhttp://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1258

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Petchaburi Road

This is a photographic archive of stand-alone movie theaters in Southeast Asia. Whether operating, abandoned, or repurposed, here their images have been compiled and displayed for the public record.

Here the link: http://seatheater.blogspot.com/.../oscar-theater-bangkok…

Image above, Oscar Theatre, Bangkok.

The Southeast Asia Movie Theatre Project

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Aichi, Japan

A Fairytale Tower

House in Chiharada was designed by Studio Velocity in the garden of another residence in Japan's Aichi Prefecture, so architects Miho Iwatsuki and Kentaro Kunhura specified a cylindrical volume that would contrast with the rectilinear structure of the existing building.

Keep reading (and look at the beautiful images) about this impressive house: http://www.dezeen.com/.../house-in-chiharada-by-studio.../

Alessandro Scandurra / Francesco Librizzi / Beniamino Servino: date un'occhiata al link...

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Erenhot, China

Would you kiss me?

No animal deserves a monument more than a dinosaur. That's why some of the weirdest, biggest, and most awesome (in the original sense of the word) statues in the world are devoted to these extinct beasts. Here are some of the most mind-boggling.

If you like, here you get more: http://io9.com/these-are-the-weirdest-dinosaur-statues...

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Basel, Switzerland

Literaturwurst

“From time to time I take books I can’t stand or from authors I want to annoy and make: sausages c. 40 cm long, 8 cm thick, should end up as an edition of 50, titled on the outside, signed, numbered, DM100.”

(Dieter Roth)

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There are lots of ways to express one’s dislike of a book, but if you’re Dieter Roth, German-Swiss artist whose wide and varied output included many works incorporating food, giving the book zero stars on Goodreads is not going to cut it.

Keep reading at: http://www.mhpbooks.com/literaturwurst-not-the-worst-of.../

Here, some more: http://www.moma.org/.../exhibiting-fluxus-decomposition…

Thanks to Gioia Guerzoni for the nice link.

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New York, NY, United States

If This Toaster Could Talk

If This Toaster Could Talk / Narratives in the age of the smart object

Super article today (thanks to Walter Aprile): http://www.theatlantic.com/.../if-this-toaster.../279276/

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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Since it looks that soon we are at war again, here the link to a very interesting article on today's New York Time:

http://www.nytimes.com/.../images-of-the-vietnam-war-that…

Here the link to the impressive photo gallery: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/.../a-veteran-reporter.../

Image above by Malcolm Browne. In the first of a series of fiery suicides by Buddhist monks, Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

(Aldous Huxley)

Images of the Vietnam War that Defined an Tra

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Terminal San Basilio, Venezia

Open Design Italia

I just received an email from Valentina Croci, nice project / ehxibition / contest.

Open Design ItaliaNovember 22/24, 2013 | San Basilio Terminal, Venice

Since 2010, the market-exhibition for self-produced and small series design.

The event is focused on the development of concrete collaborations among designers, enterprises and local craftsmen, aiming to provide them with the possibility to show and to sell theirs works without mediations.

More at: http://opendesignitalia.net/en/

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China Town เยาวราช

Should I stay or should I go?

Big problem.

I am drawing a lot, following the instructions, briefs and suggestions given by Michael Nobbs in his: "Drawing your life".

Now, mr Nobbs says that I have to draw in a bath-tub.Apparently easy, but in Bangkok, to find a house or a hotel with a bath-tub is extremely difficult.

It took a week, but then we found the place.

Loy La Long Hotel has a room with the bath-tub.

http://www.loylalong.com/

A very nice hotel, isn'it? Extremely decadent, for old tourists looking for vintageness…I think that I will like it very much…

Hence, this weekend there will be a journey to Chinatown to make my bath-tub drawings…

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Cantiere Barca

Cantiere Barca is back!

After a lot of work, exhibitions, journeys (and much more), Cantiere Barca is back for its 4th worskhop.

From the 9th to the 15th of September, via Anglesio 25, Torino.With Berlinese collective Raumlabor, Maurizio Cilli, A Titolo Torino.

Here the link where to get more info (in Italian): http://www.progettobarca.blogspot.com/

Superlike!

Keep tuned for more!

Of course, thanxthanx to Rachaporn Choochuey for the logistic support!

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Topkapı, Turkey

Corporate Identity (1520 ca.)

Another interesting bit of information from Neil MacGregor, A history of the World in 100 objects.

A tughra is a calligraphic monogram, seal or signature of an Ottoman sultan that was affixed to all official documents and correspondence.

It was also carved on his seal and stamped on the coins minted during his reign. Very elaborate decorated versions were created for important documents that were also works of art in the tradition of Ottoman illumination, such as the example of Suleiman the Magnificent in the image above where you can see a decorated tughra of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520).

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tughra

Even more at: http://www.britishmuseum.org/.../t/tughra_of_suleiman.aspx

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bitforms gallery nyc

After a lot hard work writing and teaching, Casey Reas is back with a new show.

The press release sasy:

Reas’ latest work inhabits the increasingly voluminous, yet invisible, spaces of information systems and mass communication. Using a variety of materials, his new projects explore the behavior of television signals and entropy. Live video driven software systems are featured in Ultraconcentrated, as well as c prints, laser etched anodized aluminum pieces, and an illuminated sculpture created with Aranda Lasch.

The series Signal to Noise intentionally disrupts the information of local broadcast signals. It investigates the field of technical images, as theorized by philosopher Villem Flusser, such as visual information transmitted as data, which relies on text based instructions to “write” a picture. In the creation of this work, television content was captured from the air with an antenna. Reas edited and then processed the appropriated material with his owm custom software, which runs live in the gallery. The

Casey Reas is Ultraconcentrated.

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Qinghai, China

Local legend speculates that Mt. Baigong in the Qinghai Province of China is an ancient extraterrestrial laboratory. Aside from the mysterious pyramid that crowns the mountain, three triangular entrances at the mountain’s base lead the way to hundreds of decrepit metal pipe-like structures of unknown origin.

Keep reading at: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/baigong-pipes/

Did you know about "Baigong pipes"?

programmed logic is visible as a geometric lattice, building theillusion of a surface.

More about this exhibition at: http://www.bitforms.com/current.html?utm_source=buffer…

More about Casey at: http://reas.com/

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New York, NY, United States

This is very very special, and I like it so much! Thanks to Jolanda De Villiers Morkel for the link.

Fairy Tales is an open, international, ideas competition that challenges creatives from all professional realms to develop visionary, narrative-based design proposals.

Fairy Tales. The World's First Architecture Storytelling Competition

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baigong_Pipes

http://www.utaot.com/2013/03/02/the-baigong-pipes-mystery/

http://otherworldmystery.com/the-mystery-of-the-baigong…

Image above: the area where the pipes were discovered

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Images of an Infinite Film

Memory, media and what movies mean make up the subject matter for "Images of an Infinite Film," opening Saturday at the Museum of Modern Art. Staged not in a cinema but in a gallery space on the museum's second floor, the exhibition features flickering images and static interventions, all arranged in a tribute to so-called structuralist film.

Fairy Tales challenges participants to develop visionary proposals that take fun seriously and are audacious enough to ignite imaginations. The proposals will combine text-based architectural fairy tales with innovative graphic representations, and in doing so, seek to unlock the power of architecture by improving the way that it is shared, digested, and communicated.

Keep reading at: http://www.archilovers.com/.../blank-space-launched-the…

More at: http://blankspaceproject.com./

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Stockholm, Sweden

Why Minecraft is more than just another video game?

"It was the opposite of telling a story," MoMA Assistant Curator Erica Papernik said of the movement that the show surveys. "It was about exploring the medium and the material of film, but also how we relate to our surroundings, perceive information, formulate meaning and project that meaning back out into the world."

Keep reading the interesting review at: http://online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424127887324123004579057…

Here the link of the exhibition: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1393

And here some more on Hollis Frampton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Frampton

Thanks to Piero Rivizzigno for the link.

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Minecraft's creators revealed this week that the blocky freeform building game has 33 million users. It can easily become an obsession.

Keep reading on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23572742

Here some more explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinecraftAnd here the official website: https://minecraft.net/

Cool, is cool. It feels very much like when we played Lego when child. To tell you more, I have to play more…

Keep tuned...