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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

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Fort Meade Military Base, Maryland

Extremely interesting article by Sam Jacobs on

Prism.

As details of the American National SecurityAgency's Prism programme emerge, alongside

concerns about democracy, freedom, state

surveillance and the complicity of corporations,

something also seems to be revealed about the

ways in which digital technologies arefundamentally reformulating the ways in which

design - a new kind of design born out of digital

culture - now organises and impacts the way we

live.

Keep reading at: http://www.dezeen.com/...

/sam-jacob-opinion-digital.../

Apart from the ethical implication of this Prism

story, the other (very) disturbing of the wholestory is the visual appearance of their logo.

Not even Darth Vader in Star Wars could have

imagined such a lousy thing...

Prism is the dark side

of design thinking.
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/13/sam-jacob-opinion-digital-culture-affecting-design/http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/13/sam-jacob-opinion-digital-culture-affecting-design/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-Meade-Military-Base-Maryland/244844902269843?ref=stream

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Ristorante La Fontana Di Chen&Lin

Black Flower

I have to say that I really enjoy drawing on themini iPad. I use Paper 53 as a drawing tool, and i

spend lots of hours copying the masters.

Here above, a black flower, from an original work

by Jannis Kounellis.

Soon, I will make a folder with some of the

drawings I like the most...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ristorante-La-Fontana-Di-ChenLin/321727647873?ref=stream

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Very nice. I've found a Pinterest page with lots of

Sottsass' design metaphors.

http://pinterest.com/pitpittuz/metafore-e-

sottsass/

And here some more:

http://www.amazon.com/Ettore-Sottsass...

/dp/888491325X

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If you think you're meeting your destiny on the

other side of adoor you may not be interested in

its design.

(Ettore Sottsass, Design Metaphors)

Some More Metaphors
http://www.amazon.com/Ettore-Sottsass-Metaphors/dp/888491325Xhttp://www.amazon.com/Ettore-Sottsass-Metaphors/dp/888491325Xhttp://www.amazon.com/Ettore-Sottsass-Metaphors/dp/888491325Xhttp://pinterest.com/pitpittuz/metafore-e-sottsass/http://pinterest.com/pitpittuz/metafore-e-sottsass/

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Nara-shi, Japan

Nara Dreamland

Third post from the glorious: http://www.

whydontyoutrythis.com/.../30-abandoned-places

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Nara Dreamland ( Nara

Dormurando) was a themepark near Nara, Japan

which was built in 1961 and inspired by Disneyland

in California. On August 31, 2006, Nara Dreamlandclosed permanently.

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

If you google-image on "nara dreamland" whatcomes out, is actually fairly impressive

Thanks to Rachaporn Choochueyfor the link!
https://www.facebook.com/rachapornhttps://www.facebook.com/rachapornhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nara_Dreamlandhttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Nara-shi-Nara-Japan/103079999732248?ref=stream

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Kolmanskop, Namibia

A Special Ghost Town

Yesterday, Rachapornshared this link on 30

abandoned places that look truly beautiful: http:

//www.whydontyoutrythis.com/.../30-abandoned-

places

Here my favorite ones.

First is Kolmanskop, in the Namib Desert:

(Afrikaans for Colemans hill, German:

Kolmannskuppe) is a ghost town in the Namib

desert in southern Namibia, a few kilometres

inland from the port town of Lderitz. It was

named after a transport driver named JohnnyColeman who, during a sand storm, abandoned his

ox wagon on a small incline opposite the

settlement. Once a small but very rich mining

village, it is now a popular tourist destination run

by the joint firm NamDeb (Namibia-De Beers).

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

Link to the original image: http://photography.

nationalgeographic.com/.../kolmanskop.../
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/kolmanskop-namibia-pod/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmanskophttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/rachapornhttp://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/kolmanskop-namibia-pod/http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/kolmanskop-namibia-pod/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmanskophttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttp://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/06/30-abandoned-places-that-look-truly-beautiful.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/rachapornhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Kolmanskop-Karas-Namibia/113583061986295?ref=stream

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Pallant House Gallery

Harriet Judd, head of commercial services and

audience development at Pallant House Gallery,

says, The exhibition itself is a sort of collage: it is

about bringing together all parts of Paolozzis

work, from his well-known pop screen prints, to

the public commissions like the murals at

Tottenham Court Road tube station in London, to

the lesser known designs for fabrics and ceramics

as well as his early forays into collage.

The challenge for this publication, was how to

synthesise all of those disparate parts into one

cohesive form which bridged the early and later

work, the pop prints with the bronze sculptures

etc.

Keep reading at: http://www.designweek.co.

uk/.../togeth.../3036808.article

Thanx toGiannino Malossifor the link!

Eduardo Paolozzi &

Collaging Culture
https://www.facebook.com/malobookhttp://www.designweek.co.uk/news/together-design-creates-eduardo-paolozzi-book/3036808.article?cmpid=dwnews_1300478025&cmptype=Government+drops+%27dumbed-down%27+design+teaching+proposals%2C+Leeds+College+of+Music+identity+can+be+personalised%2C+Together%27s+Eduardo+Paolozzi+book+and+more%E2%80%A6https://www.facebook.com/malobookhttps://www.facebook.com/malobookhttp://www.designweek.co.uk/news/together-design-creates-eduardo-paolozzi-book/3036808.article?cmpid=dwnews_1300478025&cmptype=Government+drops+%27dumbed-down%27+design+teaching+proposals%2C+Leeds+College+of+Music+identity+can+be+personalised%2C+Together%27s+Eduardo+Paolozzi+book+and+more%E2%80%A6http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/together-design-creates-eduardo-paolozzi-book/3036808.article?cmpid=dwnews_1300478025&cmptype=Government+drops+%27dumbed-down%27+design+teaching+proposals%2C+Leeds+College+of+Music+identity+can+be+personalised%2C+Together%27s+Eduardo+Paolozzi+book+and+more%E2%80%A6https://www.facebook.com/pallantgallery?ref=stream

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juxtaposition of ideas in his work, he lets us see

the confusion as well as the inspiration.

More at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi

Image above: Eduardo Paolozzi, Mein Kolner Dom -

Blueprints for a New Museum, 1980.

Typical work of Paolozzi. Cologne Cathedral forms

a backdrop for the wild array of of assembled

images.

"I created a kind of blueprint for my ideal museum

- the museum has one example of everything that

is wonderful and has meaning - an aeroplane,

railway engine, a large model of a pig, Einstein,

computers, the Beauborg." Paolozzi, 1983

Cologne Cathedral

Tweetbook goes beta.

Yesterday I was with Gianni Romanoand I passed

by U10 people. I've seen the preview of the beta

version of the Tweetbook project. Very nice
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cologne-Cathedral/325791570769766?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/gianni.romanohttps://www.facebook.com/gianni.romanohttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Cologne-Cathedral/325791570769766?ref=streamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi

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New York, NY, United States

The creation of the Mask series, with collaborator

Saul Steinberg, marks a singular moment in

Morath's career....

Keep reading at: http://www.foam.org/foam-

magazine/portfolios/m/morath,-inge

More at: http://www.magnumphotos.com/...

/USA-New-York-City-Saul...

Saul Steinberg's Masks.As Shot by Inge Morath

indeed!

Michele Aquila, Valeria Di Rose & Manuel Sarfatti

should bevery happy!

http://beta.trytweetbook.com/

http://www.u10.mi.it/2012/04/14/tweet-book-

it/
http://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/portfolios/m/morath,-ingehttp://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Inge-Morath/1959/USA-New-York-City-Saul-STEINBERG-mask-series-NN145834.htmlhttp://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/portfolios/m/morath,-ingehttp://www.u10.mi.it/2012/04/14/tweet-book-it/http://www.u10.mi.it/2012/04/14/tweet-book-it/http://beta.trytweetbook.com/https://www.facebook.com/mic.aquilahttp://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Inge-Morath/1959/USA-New-York-City-Saul-STEINBERG-mask-series-NN145834.htmlhttp://www.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Inge-Morath/1959/USA-New-York-City-Saul-STEINBERG-mask-series-NN145834.htmlhttp://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/portfolios/m/morath,-ingehttp://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/portfolios/m/morath,-ingehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-New-York/108424279189115?ref=stream

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New York, NY, United States

Steven Holl, Waterpainting...

Very nice, to see the gallery with all these

waterpaints made by Steven Holl through the

years

http://www.stevenholl.com/painting.php

MIT Media Lab

Immersion
https://www.facebook.com/mitmedialab?ref=streamhttp://www.stevenholl.com/painting.phphttps://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-New-York/108424279189115?ref=stream

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Once you log in, Immersion will use only the From,

To, Cc and Timestamp fields of the emails in the

account you are signing in with. It will not access

the subject or the body content of any of your

emails.

Upon logging out of Immersion, you will be

presented with a choice to save or delete your

data, which contains your compressed email

metadata and user profile

Very interesting project: https://immersion.

media.mit.edu/

Thanks toAnne-sophie Gauvinfor the link!

Foro Italico

Luigi Moretti (always) rules!

Thanks to Antonino Cardillo for reminding meabout this beautiful building.

So nice, that I have made a folder with various

images

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574746175917646.1073741869.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574746175917646.1073741869.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/foroitalico?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/annesophie.gauvinhttps://immersion.media.mit.edu/https://immersion.media.mit.edu/

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Paris, France

Stenop.es

This is so nice

Stenop.es is an experimental visual project using a

primitive technique: The Camera Obscura. Applied

to an original scale, the project is based on

projection from the outside to the inside. Two

layers are merging while the landscapes takes

place in the interiors intimacy.

Romain Alary and Antoine Levi are both

photographers and cameraman and this website is

the outcome of one of their common work.

http://stenop.es/about

More, at: http://www.theverge.com/.../watch-

as-a-pinhole-camera...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/31/4677880/watch-as-a-pinhole-camera-turns-empty-apartments-into-living-photographshttp://www.theverge.com/2013/8/31/4677880/watch-as-a-pinhole-camera-turns-empty-apartments-into-living-photographshttp://www.theverge.com/2013/8/31/4677880/watch-as-a-pinhole-camera-turns-empty-apartments-into-living-photographshttp://stenop.es/abouthttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Paris-France/110774245616525?ref=stream

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Roma, Italia

Paesaggi Anemici

One of the nice things of holidaying is that you

have time to do things you never do. Like

organizing a folder on Mario Schifano's works:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574766372582293.1073741870.268422276550039&type=3https://www.facebook.com/SPQRomanus?ref=stream

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Redwood Forest

Smith | Allen, a collabortive duo working out of

Oakland, california, USA has created the first

entirely 3D printed architectural structure.

Situated in the light-dappled bucolic Redwood

Forest, the modular pavilion is site-responsive,

mimicking and abstracting the xylem and phloem

of the lush life that surrounds the built piece.

Keep reading at: http://www.designboom.com/...

/echoviren-pavilion-the.../

After design, now it is time

for architecture to go 3d.
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/echoviren-pavilion-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-architecture/http://www.designboom.com/architecture/echoviren-pavilion-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-architecture/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Redwood-Forest/143152775756441?ref=stream

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Indiana University

Food flavors across cultures and geography vary a

lot.

Some cuisines use a lot of scallion and ginger,whereas another might use a lot of onion and

butter. Then again, everyone seems to use garlic.

Yong-Yeol Ahn, et al. took a closer look at what

makes food taste different, breaking ingredients

into flavor compounds and examining what theingredients had in common.

Keep reading at: http://flowingdata.com/...

/backbone-of-the-flavor-network/

Thanks to Anna Barbarafor the nice link!

The Backbone of the

Flavor Network
https://www.facebook.com/anna.barbara.56829http://flowingdata.com/2011/12/27/backbone-of-the-flavor-network/https://www.facebook.com/anna.barbara.56829http://flowingdata.com/2011/12/27/backbone-of-the-flavor-network/http://flowingdata.com/2011/12/27/backbone-of-the-flavor-network/https://www.facebook.com/IndianaUniversity?ref=stream

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Milan

Over 25 million Europeans are out of work. On top

of that, many people are stuck in low-paid jobs or

sense that they have few opportunities on the job

market sometimes because of their gender, age

or a handicap.

Keep reading at: http://ec.europa.eu/.../social...

/competition/index_en.htm

Launching event in Milan, 11th October 2013 (via

Filippo Addarii).

Industrial Innovation:

European Social Innovation

Competition
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/social-innovation/competition/index_en.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/policy/social-innovation/competition/index_en.htmhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Milan-Italy/108581069173026?ref=stream

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Montreal, Canada

The Mosacultures Internationales Montral 2013

event marks a moment we have long been waiting

for! As soon as the plant creations became an

integral part of the gardens and collections of the

Botanical Garden, they revealed a whole new

dimension, enabling us to better understand the

Land of Hope theme and the importance of

preservingour planets biodiversity. Let the

amazement begin! stated Gilles Vincent, director

of the Botanical Garden.

Keep reading at: http://www.

mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/

Thanks toSimone Salafor the link!

In the meanwhile,

at Mosacultures

Internationales...
https://www.facebook.com/here.is.simonehttp://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/https://www.facebook.com/here.is.simonehttp://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/http://www.mosaiculturesinternationales.ca/en/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Montreal-Quebec/102184499823699?ref=stream

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Shinjuku-ku, Japan

This is very cool!

Arata Isozaki, conceptual organization of thespace. Shinjuku project, 1961.

It is an image from: Arata Isozaki, "Unbuilt": http:

//www.fivepercentjapanese.com/...

/7_arata_isozaki

Thanks toLucia Giulianofor having all these

incredible books...
https://www.facebook.com/lucia.giuliano.35http://www.fivepercentjapanese.com/art/7_arata_isozaki_unbuilt_architecture_tokyo_japan.htmlhttp://www.fivepercentjapanese.com/art/7_arata_isozaki_unbuilt_architecture_tokyo_japan.htmlhttp://www.fivepercentjapanese.com/art/7_arata_isozaki_unbuilt_architecture_tokyo_japan.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Shinjuku-ku-Tokyo-Japan/111924802167390?ref=stream

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