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2013
timeline archive:
a personal collection
of curiosities
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Dar Alhajar, Sanaa
Unknown Image
To keep the conversation going, here the
flabbergasting Rock Palace, in Dar Al-Hajar
(Yemen).
Here the link to get to know more: http://www.
lonelyplanet.com/.../Imam%27s+Rockin%
27+Palace...
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La Biennale di Venezia
The GrandBox
-image courtesy of: Giulio Pascali-
It has been the nicest project I've been working at
in the whole year. A community of people
gathered around http://www.facebook.
com/groups/GranTouristas, an atlas of interesting
places & people to go to see and meet around
Italy: http://www.facebook.
com/GrandTourVeniceBiennale012
All of this, became physical in 100 GrandBoxes.
Thanks to all the GranTouristas. Very nice to play
with you!
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Nichelino
Great work by Martino Gamper in Torino's
outskirts.
A proejct made possible by Maurizio Cilli and
Rebecca de Marchi (Eco e Narciso) + Situa.to. With
the great support of the kids living in the quartiere
Castello.
Martino Gamper's Shiny
Bubble
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Mr Gangnam
Undoubtfully the 2012 has been the year of mr
Psy, aka mr Gangnam Style.
More the one billion views on YouTube, or: Korea
Rules!
Wikipedia explains:
"Gangnam Style" is a Korean neologism that refers
to a lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District
of Seoul, where people are trendy, hip and exude
a certain supposed "class." The term was listed in
Time's weekly vocabulary list as a manner
associated with lavish lifestyles in Seoul's Gangnam
district. PSY likened the Gangnam District to
Beverly Hills, California, and said in an interview
that he intended in a twisted sense of humour by
claiming himself to be "Gangnam Style" when
everything about the song, dance, looks, and the
music video is far from being such a high class.
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Baghdad, Iraq
Very nice project, as read in the Economist.
A (Literary) Bridge to
Baghdad
"People who are actually from Gangnam never
proclaim that they areit's only the posers and
wannabes that put on these airs and say that they
are "Gangnam Style"so this song is actually
poking fun at those kinds of people who are trying
so hard to be something that they're not"
~Psy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style
Here the video: https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=HUk69c7...
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On March 5th 2007, at the bloody midpoint of the
Iraq war, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi
Street in Baghdad. The attack tore through the
heart of the citys historic literary district, a block
crammed with cafs and bookstores. The
Shahbandar coffeehouse, a meeting place for
generations of Iraqi writers and intellectuals, was
blown to pieces; the owners four sons and one
grandson were killed. Thirty people died and 100
were wounded in the blast, for which no group
ever claimed responsibility.
A world away, a San Francisco bookseller read
about the attack in his morning paper. Beau
Beausoleil, a poet and proprietor of the Great
Overland Book Company, a second-hand book
store, waited for the outpouring of support and
outrage that would surely follow. Nothing
happened. Mr Beausoleil felt compelled to act. An
attack on writers and booksellers anywhere in the
world was an attack on them all.
Keep reading at: http://www.economist.com/...
/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-here
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Rapallo
Ka-Boom
Andrea Botto is another great character who had a
big role in the GranTouristas game/project.
Excellent photographer (here above one of his "Ka-
Boom" images), here is the link to his website:
http://www.andreabotto.it/
To see the original version of the image above,
here is the link: http://www.hippolytebayard.
com/.../on-documentary...
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Milan
Through the Window
Giorgio Barreras series Through the Window is
somewhat more complex than it appears at first:
Inside each of the rooms seen in the photos, the
artist put flash lights - with the consent of the
people living in those apartments - to trigger them
and take a photo whenever he decided to: Smile!,
you are on camera (but you wont know when).
Check his website to see the original of this image
above, as well as to see much more: http://www.
giorgiobarrera.it/
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Mexico
The (New) Book of Questions
What if it was the body that gives meaning to
space? @laperiferia, 2012
In 1974 Pablo Neruda published his best-seller
The Book of Questions: poems in the shape of
questions, observing whatever surrounded him,
with the wonder of a child. Is in this spirit that the
project
The ( New) Book of Questions is founded: to
observe and question the territories in process
we live in, rather than to answer them. These
questions will lead authors and lectors into the
realm of further observation and, if lucky, further
questioning. The aim of this book is to become a
device or tool for thinking, observing and
understanding the landscape, city, and space.
The (New) Book of questions will document , in
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the format of questions, different perceptions of
the territory during a year (Nov. 8th. 2012 until
Nov 8th 2013).
Follow the project at: http://nomadicity.tumblr.
com/.../what-if-it-was-the-body
More about The Nomad (alter ego of Evangelina
Guerra Lujn) at: http://about.me/thnmd
Follow her on twitter at: @____thenomad
You can also follow this, very nice: http://thnmd.
tumblr.com/
Sukhumvit 39
Printing Covers...
Happily busy in booklet making
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More at: http://www.facebook.
com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/
Have a nice day to all!
United Kingdom, Surrey, Guilford
Very impressive and very addictive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/.../Curiosity_%E2%80%
93_What%27s
http://www.22cans.com/
You can download it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details
https://itunes.apple.com/.../curiosity-whats...
/id557549271
Curiosity. What's inside the
cube?
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Thanks to Piero Rivizzigno for the link!
Brno
Machinarium
I always loved Czech design. Here once again, here
we go
Generally, I don't like so much contemporary
digital/video games. But here there is an
exception. A nice game with fantastic visual
world.
http://machinarium.net/demo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinarium
Interesting to know that: "Machinarium was
developed over a period of three years, by seven
Czech developers, who financed the project with
their own savings. The marketing budget for the
game was a scant $1,000".
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Edward Bellamy House
Looking Backward
Another interesting person I've met thanks to the
GT game is ms Laura Basco. She knows a lot of
things, and chitchatting with her is nice because I
get to learn lots of (cool) stuff, I've never heard
about.
Here for instance her reference to Edward
Bellamy's Looking Backward book.
Wikipedia explains:
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science
fiction novel by Edward Bellamy; it was first
published in 1887.
It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the
Christ.
It influenced a large number of intellectuals, and
appears by title in many of the major Marxist
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writings of the day. "It is one of the few books
ever published that created almost immediately
on its appearance a political mass movement".
In the United States alone, over 162 "Bellamy
Clubs" sprang up to discuss and propagate the
book's ideas. Owing to its commitment to the
nationalization of private property, this political
movement came to be known as Nationalism, not
to be confused with the political concept of
nationalism.
The novel also inspired several utopian
communities.
Keep reading at: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Looking_Backward
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Guatemala
Guatemalan developers are building a nearly
independent city for the wealthy on the outskirts
of a capital marred by crime and snarled by
traffic. At its heart is the 34-acre (14-hectare)
Paseo Cayala, with apartments, parks, high-end
boutiques, church, nightclubs, and restaurants, all
within a ring of white stucco walls.
The builders of Paseo Cayala say it is a livable,
walkable development that offers housing for
Guatemalans of a variety of incomes, though so far
the cheapest apartments cost about 70 times the
average Guatemalan's yearly wage.
Keep reading at: http://www.huffingtonpost.
com/.../paseo-cayala-guatemala
Cayala City. A Private Town
for Rich People to Escape
Crime
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Flims
The Architect's Studio
Valerio Olgiati - Dado, the architects studio.
A very special space.
Here some other images: http://subtilitas.tumblr.
com/.../valerio-olgiati-dado-the
Thanks to Joseph Djenandji for sharing the link.
Thanks to Giulio Pascali for the link.
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Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills
The Guardian reports:
"Hefner, 86, wearing what appeared to be purple
silk pyjamas under a black bathrobe and snuggling
his bride, 26, still wearing her pale pink wedding
dress. He also wore his trademark captain's hat"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../01/hugh-hefner-
gets-playmate
Hail to the Chief!
Purple Silk Pajamas (Getting
Married in)
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Turin
Postal Dossier
For Viaggi Postali (Postal Voyages) 25 friends, co-
workers or family members were selected.
Alighiero Boetti sent envelopes addressed to his
'travellers', knowing they would be returned as
undeliverable.
Boetti photocopied the returned mail, placed it
into a new envelope and sent it on its next
journey. These photocopies were gathered
together and systematically ordered in the Dossier
Postale (Postal Dossier).
Imaginary journeys were drawn up for his
addressees; Boetti would send the gallerist Leo
Castelli on a tour or Morocco's grandest hotels, his
colleague, the artist Giulio Paolini, would be sent
to every address Boetti had ever lived in. Other
'recipients' included Marcel Duchamp, Bruce
Nauman, Lucy Lippard and Seth Siegelaub.
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Keep reading at: http://openfileblog.blogspot.
com/.../alighiero-boetti
It was 1969!
JISC Digital Media
This free, open and online course (MOOC) has been
designed with further and higher education
professionals in mind - lecturers, qualification
teams, awarding bodies, learning technologists,
library and student support staff and learning and
teaching specialists - but may also be of interest
to teachers (or teachers to be) in secondary
schools or informal/work based learning
facilitators, in fact, anyone with an interest in
curriculum and learning design.
Learning Design for a 21st
Century Curriculum
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Keep reading at: https://sites.google.com/a/olds.
ac.uk/oldsmooc
Thanks to Jolanda De Villiers Morkel for the link.
Corso Magenta
Big Ben Zine
Since a new year is starting now, let me link one
of my favorite design zine: Legrenzi Susanna's Big
Ben ZIne.
http://www.bigbenzine.com/
You can also follow the news on facebook: http:
//www.facebook.com/.../big-ben-art...
/118993556076 and twitter: @bigbenzine.
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Berlin-Mitte
Das Weisse Buch
This fact that I can't speak or read German
properly, is something that once in a while, it
really annoys me.
This is one of these situations. There is a great
book by a great author, but not much to
understand (beyond its title).
Anyway, here a link to start to get into mr Horzon
world: http://www.goethe.de/...
/prj/mtg/men/kun/raf/en6890643.htm
Here a link to his website (again, everything in
German): http://www.modocom.de/
Thanks to Iva Na Langstrumpf for introducing me
into this (very) magic world!