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Paris, France
Art History
Mondrian Owns Geometry Pollock Owns Drippings
Hockney Owns California Beuys Owns Felt Johns
Owns The Flag Lichtenstein Owns Comics Warhol
Owns Pop Schnabel Owns Crockery Munch Owns
Despair Ernst Owns Glue Klein Owns Blue Cesar
Owns Compression Arman Owns Accumulation
Oldenburg Owns Rubber Ruscha Owns Words Nitsch
Owns Blood June Paik Owns Television Baselitz
Owns Upside Down Kiefer Owns Germany Opalka
Owns Numbers Kawara Owns The Calendar
Manzoni Owns Shit Fontana Owns Holes Duchamp
Owns Everything Gilbert Owns George Koons Owns
Kitsch Hirst Owns The Pharmacy Soulages Owns
Black Botero Owns Fat Raynaud Owns Tiles
Sherman Owns Herself Serra Owns Steel Boltanski
Owns Memory Ryman Owns White Flavin Owns
Neon Judd Owns Shelves Holzer Owns Slogans
Malevich Owns The Square Calder Owns Mobiles
Balthus Owns Little Girls Long Owns The Land
Boetti Owns Tapestry Villegl/Rotella Owns
Torn Halley Owns Cells Picasso Owns The Century
Mc Carthy Owns Trash Orlan Owns Plastic Surgery
Fleury Owns Shopping Flanagan Owns Rabbits
Prince Owns Jokes Buren Owns Stripe
Here the link where you can see the original "Art
History" print by Vuk Vidor: http:
//thirddrawerdown.com/.../Art-History-Part-c-
vuk-vidor/
at the above link, is the best you can get (on-line):
http://thirddrawerdown.com/.../Art-History-Part-
c-vuk-vidor/
Torino Porta Susa
Droog meet pregnant lady.
I got up in the train, and I noticed these two icons
at the entrance of the corridor.
I guess I was in the special section, where teddy
boys and other violent minded people, can beat up
pregnant ladies with sticks.
Boop...
Id Rent
A Dino in My Clover Garden.
???
"The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not
adapt to their changing environment. We shall
disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment
that now contains spaceships, computers and
thermonuclear weapons."
(Arthur C. Clarke)
Cape Canaveral, FL, United States
What is the Golden Record?
Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both
carried small metal plaques identifying their time
and place of origin for the benefit of any other
spacefarers that might find them in the distant
future. With this example before them, NASA
placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager
1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to
communicate a story of our world to
extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried
by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated
copper disk containing sounds and images selected
to portray the diversity of life and culture on
Earth.
Here a great website where you get all the needed
explanations and where you can keep reading the
above explanation: http://goldenrecord.org/
Thanks to Gioia Guerzoni for the link.
Padiglione Arte Contemporanea - Milano
The Abramovic Method
After the retrospective at MoMA (2010), ms
Abramovic is back to business. This time in Milan
with her new project: "The Abramovic Method".
Here the link: http://theabramovicmethod.
it/it/english/
This is what the artist writes:
"In my experience, as developed in a career of
over 40 years, I have arrived at the conclusion that
the public plays a very important and indeed
crucial role in performance, she explains. The
performance has no meaning without the public
because, as Duchamp said, it is the public that
completes the work of art. In the case of
performance, I would say that public and
performer are not only complementary but almost
inseparable."
Summer Workshops at Boisbuchet
Design. Is Boisbuchet the best
place where to learn it?
Most likely yes.
How is so? Because it is not a design school. But a
place where you experiment, enjoy, get to know
new people and don't get credits or titles.
Here some more images: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/
Here their Summer Workshop program 2012: http:
//www.boisbuchet.org/index.php?
option=com_content
As Alexander von VegesackIt says: "It's about
taking play seriously".
City Life
Ruin
Milan is a very fascinating place where to live.
In the past a number of very curious real estate
operations took place. First we had Norman Foster
in Santa Giulia (an horror movie, never finished).
Now we have City Life in the old Fiera.
At the same time, Boeri Studio is completing the
"Bosco Verticale" (vertical wood) skyscrapers in
Isola neighborood. Very fascinating concept, not so
clear what will come out.
But then at the same time, the global crisis bites
harder and harder and Milanese real estate is close
to collapse.
: (
Anyway. This morning I found a link to a
short movies by Wes Ball: "Ruin".
It looks like a documentary on possible future
scenario for a place like City Life. A City Life
project mixed with the vertical wood concept
spread on the whole city. Very fantastic.
Here the link to the movie: http://www.
conceptruin.com/
Here a folder with some nice images: http://www.
facebook.
com/pages/Blueberries/268422276550039
In case you like this short, here the link to see
some other productions by OddBall Animations:
http://www.oddballanimation.com/
Milan Fashion & Pigs
"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years
while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet
dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
(Quentin Crisp)
Milano Cadorna
Mario Monti in Disguise
The other day, much to my surprise, I met Mario
Monti on the Milanese subway. He was in disguise,
but of course it was very easy to recognize him.
Most likely he was going back home (he lives not
far from Cadorna). Very nice. Not so often I have
the chance to meet my Prime Minister on the
tube...
Hackney Wick
Geometric Porn
GeometricPorn is a project by Luciano Foglia, Here
in the image you have a t-shirt, but the main
medium for his project should have been an
iPhone application.
Geometric Porn App was rejected by Apple Inc. on
Feb 1, 2012 05:47 PM.
Reasons for Rejection:
16.1: Apps that present excessively objectionable
or crude content will be rejected. We found that
many audiences would find your app concept
objectionable, which is not in compliance with the
App Store Review Guidelines.
Here the link to a video where you can see the
application itself as it should have been: http:
//vimeo.com/38538441
Since you can't play it on your phone, here the
link where you can at least buy it in form of a t-
shirt: http://www.geometricporn.com/
Belfast, United Kingdom
Make an iPhone (or Android)
app without knowing a line of
code.
This morning Alessandro Mininno (@alekone)
shared with me this very intriguing link: http:
//www.theappbuilder.com/
"The idea behind AppBuilder, JamPot's VP of Sales
Matthew David explained to Fast Company, is
simple. By using its web interface, pretty much
anyone, no matter their coding expertise, can
create a smartphone app and have it running on
their device within minutes. They're not web apps,
not a clever HTML5 app-like experience--they're
genuine native apps,
Boston, MA, United States
Museum of Useful Things
Normally we have museum transforming
themselves into shops. Here is nice, because it is
the way around: a shop transformed in a (very
smart) museum.
http://www.museumofusefulthings.com/
From their website:
optimized for each platform's particular foibles.
And within a couple of weeks, makers expect
AppBuilder to support Windows Phone 7 with all
the, as David phrased it, "fantastic" attributes of
Metro."
Continue to read the Fast Company article at:
http://www.fastcompany.com/.../mobile-apps-
close-to-the...
"The Museum of Useful Things is a collection of
utilitarian products designed to lend a helping
hand around the home or office. We are always
looking for new ideas and uses for products."
Walton, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jet Set Willy
It was one of the most important things of the
1980's pop culture. Matthew Smith's fantastic "Jet
Set Willy" game.
Here you can see some images: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/
And here is its Wikipedia entry: http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Set_Willy
In the image, a detail of the anti-piracy code
sheet that was included with the game
(extraordinary color palette, indeed...)
Bologna
Ulay and Marina
Went to see all these things of ms Abramovic.
Didn't like it at all. Finally, out of her career you
can say that there was the period before Ulay, the
period with Ulay, and the period after Ulay.
What I find really powerful is the work with Ulay
(and some of the things she did before to work
with him).
After all these years, we can say that Ulay was the
true artist, while she is a great show-woman (a
different thing than being an artist).
Here some more images of their joint works: http:
//www.facebook.com/media/set/
And here the link to the fantastic: Ulay &
Abramovi's "Imponderabilia" (1977): http://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=QgeF7tOks4s
Manet, The Suicide
I've read this news where it says that the suicide
rate in Italy (for reasons related to the financial
crisis) is getting to one to one (every day a person
commits suicide because of economical reasons).
In Greece it is even worse.
: (
Here above, Edouard Manet, "The Suicide"
painting, 1880.
Here the link where you can see the original work
in high resolution: http://www.wikipaintings.
org/en/edouard-manet/the-suicide
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Half Empty / Half Full
"To some, the glass is half full. To others, it's half
empty. To an engineer, the glass is twice as big as
it needs to be".
This was the tweet received by @Generalelectric.
But then, the designer would question the shape
of the glass. How it looks, how you grab it, its
thickness and so on.
In the image above, you have the glasses hold by
Harrison Ford (as Deckard) to drink his whiskey in
"Blade Runner".
Nice to know that Deckard (in the dystopic Los
Angeles of 2019) uses Cini Boeri's Cibi glass
(Arnolfo di Cambio, 1972).
More at: http://interstait.com/?p=2057
Victoria and Albert Museum
British Design, 1948/2012
A big show at V&A will soon open (31st of March):
"British Design 19482012: Innovation in the
Modern Age".
Lots of fascinating stuff there. Having to choose
my favorite pick, I would go for: "Anarchy in the
UK T-shirt", by Vivienne Westwood & Malcolm
McLaren (image by Jamie Reid), 1977/8, worn and
altered by Johnny Rotten. Museum no. S.794-
1990".
Here the link to the exhibition website: http:
//www.vam.ac.uk/.../british-design-about-the.../
And here my folder on Jamie Reid: http://www.
facebook.com/media/set/... (in that story, much
more important than ms Westwood and/or mr
McLaren)
ETH Zurich
Quad-Rotor Building Tower
Minicopters, working together to build incredible
structures.
Here the link to the folder where you can see
more images: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/
Here the webpage of Raffaello D'Andrea (head of
the research group): http://raffaello.
name/dynam.../flight-assembled-architecture
And here the link to a very fascinating video: http:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkMyfQ5YfY
de Young Museum
Enfant Terrible (Goes on
Show)
On the 24th of March, big show at de Young
Museum: "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier:
From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk".
Here the link to the exhibition website: http:
//deyoung.famsf.org/.../fashion-world-jean-
paul
Here the link to some of his most iconic works:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/
Thanx to Gioia Guerzoni for the link.
Porta Garibaldi
Shop Window
Yesterday, I was walking around Porta Garibaldi. I
took several pictures. Very nice pictures, quite
gloomy atmosphere
Here the link to the folder with some more
images: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
La Triennale di Milano
The Illuminati
The other day, I was walking around when I saw
this poster. Very special image indeed. The
exhibition per se, is not so exciting (http://www.
dazeroacentolamostra.it), but Evan Baden's work
(the author of the photograph), is very interesting.
The image belong to the series: "The Illuminati",
this is how Baden explains his work: "In
Westernized cultures today, there is a generation
that is growing up without the knowledge of what
it is to be disconnected. The world in which we
are growing up is always on. We are continuously
plugged in, and linked up. We take this technology
for granted. Not because we are ungrateful, but
because we simply dont know a world without it".
Here a link to a folder with several images of "The
Illuminati" series:
Milano Centrale
Professor Peter Lang reached
Milan.
The other day I met Peter Lang, passing by in
Milan.
He was waiting for me, busy sketching, unaware of
ms Sephora puzzled by his un-interest on her
We had a very nice chitchat for a couple of hours,
where he explained his idea for a Medieval / Media
Evil workshop with his American students in
Castiglion Fiorentino (more will follow about this).
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/
And here the link to Evan Baden website: http:
//www.evanbaden.com/
If you want to see one of his latest projects, here
you have the link: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/
If you want to get to know more about Peter (one
of the few true super around), this is
the link to his website: http://www.petertlang.
net/

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