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timeline archive:a personal collection of curiosities

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Mexico

Well, it's probably the way around: Alexander Girard looks like any other Mexican person (if we talk about how tiles...).

Anyway, the article is interesting and well written.Here the link: http://observatory.designobserver.com/.../not.../38354/

In Mexico, everyone seems to be Alexander Girard


Milan

CaCO3 - Stoneware

Here we go with the Fuorisalone 2014.I start to receive invites, mail, envelopes

This look extremely promising, here is the text of the mail:

Dear friends,

We are proud to invite you to the release of our latest cross-disciplinary research project, CaCO3 - Stoneware. After a one year research and much wandering around the volcanic region of Auvergne, France, the project will be revealed during the Salone del Mobile 2014 with the collective Dutch Invertuals.

Take care and we hope to see you in Milan,

Laura Lynn Jansen & Thomas Vailly

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More at: http://www.vailly.com/projects/caco3/


Limburg, Belgium

The creative factory is a collective of designers reclaiming control over their creations. Within an empty factory in Eindhoven they create their individual production line, their machines, tools and products, while establishing relationships with the community around them. The creative factory suggests an alternative to industrialization, production and consumption.

More at: http://www.vailly.com/projects/the-creative-factory/

Thomas Vailly's Creative Factory


Berlin, Germany

Drowning...

-What the hail is going on outside, Berlin?Art of the day: Politicians discussing global warming, a sculpture in Berlin by Isaac Cordal-

Thanks to Titouan Russo!


Saint Augustine, FL, United States

Sometimes, all it takes is a man with vision -- and a complete lack of taste.

The Tragedy In The US Museum sign L.H. "Buddy" Hough was such a man. When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Buddy was suddenly inspired. Why not create a museum dedicated to all the bad things that have happened in United States history?

Keep reading at: http://www.lostparks.com/tragedy.html

Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for the link!

"The Tragedy In US History" Museum


Florida

This website is truly fantastic!

Once upon a time, before the giant mouse ate Orlando and Interstate Highways were built to cattle chute the tourists directly into International Drive, there was another Florida.

It was somewhen between Henry Ford's mass production of the Model-T, which made automobile touring a commonplace, and Walt Disney's mass production of the tourist experience, which made the road trip a mere way to get there, instead of the there itself. It was the age of the roadside attraction.

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


Florida Lost Tourist Attractions


The Million Dollar Homepage was a phenomenon in 2005, but almost a decade on, it stands as a monument to the fragility of the internet: over one-fifth of the links on the site are dead.

Keep reading at: http://www.theguardian.com/.../after-nine-years-the

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Thanks to Lucia Giuliano for the hint!

After nine years, the Million Dollar homepage is 22% dead...


Milan

Use-It Milan

This is the description from the website:

We live a city more beautiful than you can believe, less expensive than you can fear, with more history than it can remember or that is able to tell. Milan. In Milan, for example, we have some of the cleanest water in Italy and there are hundreds of cute little drinking fountains.

If you want to see the map, here the link: http://www.use-it.travel/cities/detail/milan/

Thanks to Silvia Piombo for the map and for sharing it

On Facebook and Twitter at: @useitmilan


Vancouver, Canada

Circos!

Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It visualizes data in a circular layout this makes Circos ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions. There are other reasons why a circular layout is advantageous, not the least being the fact that it is attractive.

http://circos.ca/http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/ (the gent who invented's webpage)


Google Creative Lab

Patatap

Here the weblink: http://www.patatap.com/

Here the explanation:This might be the most fun youll ever have with your computer keyboard: a new website called Patatap turns the keys of A to Z into a musical instrument-slash-animation kit, letting you escape into trippy private jam sessions. It reminds us of why kids find banging on Tupperware so endlessly entertaining.

Designer Jono Brandel, a member of Google Creative Labs Data Arts Team, collaborated with Japanese composer duo Lullatone to create Patatap. Pressing any key from A to Z sparks different sounds, from bells and snaps to pew-pewing lasers and alien spaceship landings. Each is accompanied by a vibrant abstract animation. Hitting the spacebar switches everything up: the color scheme, the sounds, and the animations.

More at: http://www.fastcodesign.com/.../patatap-turns-yourThanks to Franz Goria for the link!


Atacama Desert

For nearly a decade, photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling the globe in search of the world's oldest living things.

From the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback to Greenland's icy expanses, she captures portraits of life forms so relentless they've managed to survive eons of planetary change.

Keep reading at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../the-oldest-living

Image above: La Llareta: 2,000+ years old (Atacama Desert, Chile)

What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a very dense, flowering shrub that happens to be a relative of parsley, living in the extremely high elevations of the Atacama Desert.

Some of the Oldest Living Things in the World...


Norway

They have already given us a slow train to Bergen, a six-day ferry cruise on the fjords and an eight-and-a-half hour knitting epic.

Now the channel behind Norway's marathon "Slow TV" broadcasts billed as an antidote to the frantic data overload of the internet and twitter has excelled itself with Piip Show, a strangely addictive "reality-TV show with wild birds".

Keep reading at: http://www.theguardian.com/.../norway-launches-wild-bird

Here the link for you to watch: http://www.nrk.no/piipshow/

Piip Show: a Reality TV Show Starring Birds


Belfast, United Kingdom

Rory's Story Cubes

Originally developed as a creative problem solving tool, Rorys Story Cubes uses story metaphor to draw out insights. It works because the brain thinks in pictures and will make lateral connections between the images and the question you are working on.

Keep reading at: http://www.thecreativityhub.com/games.../rorys-story-cubes

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



Monte Albn

While most people are familiar with the Aztecs and the Maya of Mesoamerica, the people known as the Zapotec remain relatively obscure.

Among the first people in the area to use agricultural and writing systems, they also built one of the earliest recognized cities in North AmericaMonte Alban.

Founded in the fifth century B.C., the city was home to a maximum of 25,000 citizens and lasted for over 1,200 years. In Monte Alban, a privileged class made up of priests, warriors, and artists ruled over the lower classes.

Keep reading at: http://listverse.com/.../10-ancient-civilizations-that.../

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Alb%C3%A1n

Zapotec Civilization and Monte Albn


United Kingdom

GuardianWitness

GuardianWitness is the home of user-generated content on the Guardian.

You can contribute your video, pictures and stories, and browse all the news, opinions and creations submitted by others. Posts will be reviewed prior to being published on GuardianWitness, with the best pieces featured on the Guardian site.

More at: https://witness.theguardian.comhttps://witness.theguardian.com/abouthttps://witness.theguardian.com/.../532c3ef2e4b0d535dec46

Thanks to Giannino Malossi.


This is how Penelope Umbrico explains her project:

This is a project I started when I found 541,795 pictures of sunsets searching the word sunset on the image hosting website, Flickr. I cropped just the suns from these pictures and uploaded them to Kodak, making 4" x 6" machine prints from them.

Here the link: http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/Suns/Suns_State.html

Image above: 541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/26/06, 2006, detail of 2000 machine c-prints, each 4inch x 6inch by Penelope Umbrico (courtesy of the artist)

541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr


JWT Londons GIFs Exhibition

JWT Londons GIFs Exhibition

Although many people might refer to animated GIFs as the cool new thing due to their massive boom on mainstream media, they are not that new Au contraire my friends! Animated GIFs have been around for many, many years.

To celebrate their awesomeness and how much they have evolved since they first appeared and internet cats became famous, JWT London organized a fun and hypnotic animated GIFs exhibition called Loop, featuring some of the most recognized and talented names in the business such as Robin Davey, Paolo Ceric, David Pope, Ian Acton, and many more.

Keep reading at: http://diegoguevara.com/.../24/jwt-londons-gifs-exhibition/

Thanks to Franz Goria for the link!

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