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timeline archive:a personal collection of curiosities

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San Francisco, CA, United States

IFTTT

In the meanwhile, in San Francisco, Linden Tibbets and his lads are adding new channels to the fantastic IFTTT.


Matera

Basilicata Bordergames

BBGames are urban games which will take place in Basilicata in 4 weeks: from August 11th to September 29th in four different cities of the Region. The games will involve the participation of 120 young creative people coming from all over Europe, who will be the protagonists of crazy and challenging missions, which will enliven the city and intrigue its citizens.

Keep reading at: http://www.basilicatabordergames.com/?locale=en

Thanks to Mariella Stella and Andrea Paoletti for the link (and for the proejct)!

https://ifttt.com/

I have to say, it is one of the most intelligent services you can find on the web. Now also the iPhone gets into the loop...


Palermo

L'Ang(e)lo e l'Ang(o)lo

The other day, I received a long email by Pamela Ferri. Now reading, browsing, learning.

Here above, an image from her work: "L'Ang(e)lo e l'Ang(o)lo" (The Angel and the Angle).

https://www.facebook.com/PamelaFerri.../media_set

Breathless


Kairouan, Tunisia

I keep looking for nice sketches and drawings.

Paul Klee's one are truly impressive (as it was quite easy to imagine).

Here above: Episode at Kairouan, 1920.

Here I made a little folder with some 20 image: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Nice to remember that: "Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see". Paul Klee

More Sketches. Paul Klee's Ones


Brazil

Another piece of XXth Century fades away.

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(we are getting so old...)

Volkswagen Brazil has announced a Final Edition version of the classic Type 2 Kombi van that has been in continuous production there since 1957.

Keep reading at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Volkswagen-Kombi-camper

By the 31st of December 2013 a long journey started in 1947 will come to a conclusion.

How it all began

The concept for the Type 2 is credited to Dutch Volkswagen importer, Ben Pon. Pon visited Wolfsburg in 1946, intending to purchase Type 1s for import to Holland, when he saw an improvised parts-mover and realized something better was possible, using the stock Type 1 pan.

Farewell to Volkswagen Type 2


Roosevelt, NJ, United States

How Regretful

That such a great visual artist as Ben Shahn faded into oblivion.

He was very good, wasn't he?

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Here some images of his works, collected here and there: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Image above: Farewell to New York - All That is Beautiful, 1965.

He first sketched the van in a doodle, dated April 23, 1947, proposing a payload of 690 kg and placing the driver at the very front.

http://www.designfather.com/volkswagen-type-2-microbus.../

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_2


London, United Kingdom

In these days, another past-time of mine is to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus over and over. Especially the animation bits.

Here the link for you: http://www.openculture.com/.../watch-all-of-terry...

Monty Python's Animations (Well, Terry Gilliam's Animations...)

Here some more about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn

http://www.nj.com/.../11/family_of_storied_nj_artist_be.html


Munich, Germany

Hand Puppets for Felix

Very nice article on Paul Klee's puppets (I didn't know they existed...)

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix. He used material from his home for the heads (beef bones, electrical outlets, bristle brushes, nutshells) and sewed costumes

Here for you to read the whole story: http://www.openculture.com/.../the-homemade-hand-puppets

Here a folder with lots of images:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

And here, even more images: http://www.flickr.com/.../4001519.../sets/72157622672993283/


Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

Kino

Bayer was both a student and a teacher at the Bauhaus and worked in a wide range of fields including painting, sculpture, typography, advertising and architecture. In his early years as a student he studied painting with Kandinsky, but in just a short while he was teaching one of the Bauhaus' first classes on typography.

Keep reading at: http://www.designishistory.com/1920/herbert-bayer/

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

Thanks to Matteo Mocchi for the reference.


Notebook Workshop, Once Again...

DIARY ROOM | WORKSHOP

Join us July 27-28 at IdLab. The workshop is free and open to all. To participate, send an email to [email protected]

Check the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/160623454123425/


Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hong Kong's High Rise

When you first see Michael Wolfs photography, it takes a second to realize what youre looking at.

The multi-colored patterns look almost like an unidentifiable piece of technology, as though a chunk of plastic was plucked out of a motherboard and magnified.

Its only when you begin to notice the windows and balconies and even the occasional person punctuating his frame that you realize youre staring at someones home.

More specifically, youre looking at Hong Kongs colorful high-rises, the most prevalent form of housing in one of the most vertical cities on the planet. In his Architecture of Density project (now a book), Wolf transforms his adoptive home citys ubiquitous architecture into stunning works of art.

Keep reading at: http://www.wired.com/.../unbelievable-photographs-of.../

Link to Architecture of Density book:


Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings

You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.

(Rudolf Steiner)

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More about these drawings at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Even more drawings at:http://fatherfalconsperm.tumblr.com/.../brettkingery

http://secretsofajewishbaker.blogspot.it/.../aetheticalhttp://antroposofi.org/blackboard/index.html

Goetheanum

http://peperoni-books.de/tokyo_compression_three_en0.html


Coimbatore, India

Strawberries from the Future

Pretty cool and pretty spooky. Finally, very interesting

More at:http://www.petbharoproject.co.in/CommercialHydroponics.phphttp://www.bkgreenhouses.com/

More about Rudolf Steiner at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner

Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for the link.


Chicago, IL, United States

Farmed Here

Occupying 90,000 square feet of a formerly abandoned suburban Chicago warehouse, FarmedHere is not only the first indoor vertical farm of its kind in the nation -- it's also the largest.

Celebrating its grand opening in Bedford Park, Ill., on Friday, FarmedHere utilizes a soil-free, aquaponic process to grow organic greens that are both tastier and more sustainable than traditional farming.

Keep reading at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../farmedhere-nations

More at: http://farmedhere.com/.../farmedhere-nations-largest

Thanks to Remo Ricchetti for the link.


Chiaturaa

Stalin's Rope Roads

The mining town of Chiatura, Georgia, surrounded by steep cliffs, is criss-crossed by a network of aging Soviet-era aerial tramways that are still in use today.

In the early 20th century, after the U.S.S.R. annexed Georgia, Soviet authorities were intent on extracting the vast manganese deposits beneath Chiatura.

In the 1950s, planners began work on what locals call the "Kanatnaya Doroga," or "rope road," that still connects almost every corner of the town.

Keep reading (and look at some fantastic images) at: http://www.theatlantic.com/.../08/stalins-rope-roads/100577/


Royal College Of Art

Here, the link: http://www.rcaaudio.co.uk/

Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for the link!

CAR: A Podcast about Art and Ideas from the Royal College of Art


Aborigines history goes digital.

Artifacts in museums in an effort for preservation are often placed out of reach of the communities with which they are entwined.

One way museums are bridging this divide is digitization, and with this purpose in mind, the South Australian Museum is currently undertaking a massive project to photograph and catalogue each and every one of the objects in their Aboriginal Material Culture Collection.

Keep reading at: http://hyperallergic.com/.../digital-repatriation.../

Image above: Carved punu (bird with pokerwork design) from Ernabella Arts Inc., Central Australia.

Link to the Aboriginal project of the museum: http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/.../australian-aboriginal...

Adelaide, Australia


Eindhoven, Netherlands

Ceramics for Plastics

I have to say that I didn't know much about "parkour". Then, Felice Gualtieri shared a link to this video and it is a quite fascinating thing (isn'it)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KAd7IWCMaU

Here the link to 3run (supposedly the best people on this kind of stuff): http://www.3run.co.uk/

Here some more explanations from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour


Florence in 1493. As Seen from Germany.

It takes some time (some years) to appreciate Florence urban structure. I guess I am getting old enough to start to have some vague emotion once there

Florence it's difficult to appreciate (as urban structure). It is not like Rome or Venice. It takes a lot of patience

Here some more (very nice) images:http://www.florenceprints.com/USApages/Views_of_Florence.htm

Nrberg City


Stazione di Firenze Santa Maria Novella

Jewels of Italian Rationalism

A project made in 1932, built in 1934. Designed by "Gruppo Toscano" (Giovanni Michelucci, Pier Niccol Berardi, Nello Baroni, Italo Gamberini, Sarre Guarnieri, Leonardo Lusanna).

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/.../Firenze_Santa_Maria_Novella...


Tate

Gallery of Lost Art

The Gallery of Lost Art was an immersive, online exhibition that told the stories of artworks that had disappeared. Destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, ephemeral some of the most significant artworks of the last 100 years have been lost and can no longer be seen.

The (web) project is over, anyway, it is quite nice to go through it again:http://galleryoflostart.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTML9y-GCk


Piaggio

Vespa's New Website

Very impressive. http://www.vespa.com/

Thanks to Franco Debenedetti for the link.

Strawberries from the Future

NYPL The New York Public Library


Help The New York Public Library improve a unique collection!

Theyre transcribing their historical restaurant menus, dish by dish, so that they can be searched by what people were eating back in the day. Its a big job so they need your help!

Keep reading at: http://menus.nypl.org/

Thanks to Alessandro Mininno for the nice link!

On Menthol Cigarettes and German Chancellors

Very interesting and fairly lovely:

If you believe everything you read in German newspaper the Hamburger Morgenpost and who doesn't? the chain-smoking 94-year-old former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt has stockpiled 38,000 menthol cigarettes at his home. Keep reading at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/.../helmut-schmidt-hoarding...

Germany

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