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Links for 2008-12-03 [del.icio.us]
Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind | Science | The Guardian Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help research ...
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Cinema Sim - Narratives and Projections
Cinema Sim - Narratives and Projections, currently on view at Itau Cultural in Sao Paulo, is one of those rare exhibitions you exit wearing the silliest smile on your face. You are happy. The selection of the artworks is faultless, each piece gets the space it deserves and needs, and the theme of th ...
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Links for 2008-12-02 [del.icio.us]
POC Frisson of power: blockbusting art shows - Features, Art - The Independent Byzantium, Babylon and now the Tsars. The blockbuster shows of the moment all celebrate the art and artefacts of long-lost empires. Tom Lubbock thinks he knows why Turner winner Mark Leckey attacks 'shock art' - Times ...
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S??o Paulo: Survival
I arrived yesterday in S??o Paulo and i still have to recover from the shock. This is the new Berlin, the new New York, the new 'i've never seen such an exciting place before.' Fernando Llanos, his shirt with dancing skeletons and i went to visit the very disputed 28th edition of the S??o Paulo B ...
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Links for 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]
Murakami animation studio coming to L.A. | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times Murakami already has a studio in New York. But he has decided that Hollywood is the place to expand his filmmaking capabilities. The new studio will operate under the umbrella of Kaikai Kiki, his production and artist-ma ...
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Volume and the JoA&P are out
Two of my favourite mags The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Volume are out: Volume is an architecture and urbanism magazine. It's neither a highly specialized print that mere mortals like me find hard to approach nor is it one of those glossy Vogue-lookalikes with chichi spreads of fashion ...
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Links for 2008-11-30 [del.icio.us]
How to calm binge drinkers: get them all blowing bubbles | Society | The Observer Drinkers will be encouraged to play with childrens bubble blowers instead of picking fights, in a scheme to start next month in Bolton. Police will hand out the free toys as young people pour out of pubs and clubs in ...
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Links for 2008-11-29 [del.icio.us]
Paris's booksellers under threat | World news | The Guardian Bouquinistes sales have dived as their carefully collected stocks of rare and out-of-print books face competition from online dealers and a change in Parisians reading and shopping habits. Many now sell tourist trinkets to stay afloat, cr ...
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Links for 2008-11-28 [del.icio.us]
Lucha libre - ¡Viva México, cabrones! - ¿Wrestling? No chingues - ADN.es En su versión mexicana, la lucha libre cuenta con una tradición centenaria. Se trata del segundo espectáculo más visto en su país natal tras el fútbol. Tan sólo en ciudad de México se puede asistir a un eve ...
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Links for 2008-11-27 [del.icio.us]
The Myrtle Street Review: Pigeon Attractor
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São Paulo: Survival
I arrived yesterday in São Paulo and i still have to recover from the shock. This is the new Berlin, the new New York, the new 'i've never seen such an exciting place before.' Fernando Llanos, his shirt with dancing skeletons and i went to visit the very disputed 28th edition of the São Paulo ...
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Links for 2008-11-26 [del.icio.us]
Charlotte Higgins says one of the most interesting aspects of Barack Obama's speeches is the enormous debt they owe to the oratory of the Romans | World news | The Guardian Barack Obamas speeches are much admired and endlessly analysed, but, says Charlotte Higgins, one of their most interesting asp ...
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Links for 2008-11-25 [del.icio.us]
"Un figlio di nome Benito o Rachele e avrete subito 1500 euro" - Politica - Repubblica.it 1500 euro per ogni bambino o bambina che porterà il nome di Benito o Rachele, in onore di Mussolini. Loperazione nostalgia è firmata dal Movimento sociale-Fiamma Tricolore della Basilicata.
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The contemporary art museum in the middle of a Brazilian tropical park
The Mata gallery. Photo: Bruno Magalhães. Sorry for the long silence, arte.mov (the festival for mobile media art) is far more absorbing than i expected. On Sunday, the organizers of the festival took us for a school trip to the Instituto Cultural Inhotim. An hour drive away from Belo Horizonte, ...
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Links for 2008-11-22 [del.icio.us]
Patient, heal thyself: Grow your own new organ - Science, News - The Independent The idea of growing your own new organ is now a reality. The possibilities are endless, say Steve Connor and Jeremy Laurance
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Links for 2008-11-21 [del.icio.us]
American prudes and European nudes - CNN.com Its long been a frustration for me as a guide -- the difficulty of getting Americans into spas with naked Europeans. Life is sweet in piracy capital of the world | World news | The Guardian The entire village now depends on the criminal economy. Hastil ...
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Links for 2008-11-20 [del.icio.us]
Adrian Searle: King Congo | Art and design | The Guardian Carsten Höller was the man behind the Tates slides. How do you top that? By opening a Congolese nightclub in London. He explains all to Adrian Searle Latin America’s big biennial at risk - The Art Newspaper This years São Paulo Bien ...
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Links for 2008-11-19 [del.icio.us]
British doctors help perform world's first transplant of a whole organ grown in lab - Telegraph Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo with one created from stem cells grown at Bristol University. Because the new windpipe was made from cells taken from her own body, using a proc ...
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If only inflight entertainement included internet
I am going to be offline during the 20+ hours of a trip to Brazil for the arte.mov festival (btw any tips on exhibition to do see in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo are more than welcome), i'm going to miss the broadband and wonder why no one has fine tuned teletransportation yet. In the meantime, plea ...
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Interview with Tobie Kerridge (Material Beliefs)
Material Beliefs is a group of designers based in London. They might create pieces of furniture and accessories but they are not your usual tables and cups. The result of a close collaboration with scientists and engineers, social scientists but also members of the public, their projects take emergi ...
we make money not art
