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Art Futura: Splash
Then 19th edition of Art Futura, the Barcelona-based festival of Digital Culture and Creativity, closed on Sunday with the Prize Giving Ceremony. Awards were handed to the creators of best pieces in 3D and digital animation and of the best Spanish videogames. Not one single girl jumped on the podium …
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Links for 2008-10-27 [del.icio.us]
More realistic airplane safety instructions
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Links for 2008-10-25 [del.icio.us]
Te dejo que me hagas un videoclip (gratis) | soitu.es La reducción de presupuesto en el mundo del videoclip lleva a los grupos a pedir a sus fans que hagan sus vídeos oficiales. A veces se les ofrecen unos miles de euros, donde antes se gastaba un millón, y a veces solo se les da un regalo. Coldpla …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: the Estonian pavilion
The Estonian pavilion is on many 'must see' lists. I wouldn't bother to write that you 'must' see it. Truth is you just can't miss it. It's that lemon yellow section of a natural gas pipe that snakes down the Giardini from the German to the Russian pavilion. The sixty-three meters long of real scale …
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Links for 2008-10-24 [del.icio.us]
North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis - Times Online North Korea is clamping down on mobile phones and long distance telephone calls to prevent the spread of news about a worsening food crisis, according to the United Nations investigator on human rights for the isola …
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Links for 2008-10-23 [del.icio.us]
Adrian Searle on The Killing Machine an installation by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller | Art and design | The Guardian The Killing Machine comes at the very end of their exhibition. No one is even mildly appalled. Weve seen and heard too much for this to touch us. Show us how waterboarding w …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: the Japanese pavilion
After a few posts about the Arsenale section of the VVenice Biennale of Architecture , let's go straight to the Giardini, the historic exhibition venue which hosts most of the national pavilions. One of the most popular pavilions this year is probably the Japanese one, surrounded as it is by …
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Interactivos? Mexico - Technologies of laughter
Aristote believed that laughter is what separates us from the beasts. Today, scientists argue that non-animals species, such as primates and even rats, do giggle, guffaw and burst into laugher. So if animals laugh, how about technological devices, the species we like to surround ourselves with? …
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Links for 2008-10-22 [del.icio.us]
Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy: Virginia Pharmacy Proudly Refuses To Stock Birth Control According to the AP the Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy in Chantilly, Virginia is the seventh pharmacy in the United States to be certified as birth control free by the group Pharmacists for Life International, though t …
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Links for 2008-10-21 [del.icio.us]
Zooillogix : Piglet Squid This funny looking squid is about the size of a small avocado and can be found most commonly in the deepwater (greater than 100 m or 320 ft) of virtually all oceans. Its habit of filling up with water and the funny location of its siphone with a wild-looking tuft of eight …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: The Evening Line
The Evening Line is the result of a three year collaboration between artist Matthew Ritchie, architects Benjamin Aranda et Chris Lasch and engineers at Arup AGU. The Evening Line is both an autonomous and site-specific structure conceived for the Biennial and a fragment of a much larger struc …
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Artur ??mijewski: The Social Studio
The videos of Artur Zmijewski are screened in almost all the major collective exhibitions and biennales these days. I caught a glimpse of his video in one such events and thought 'looks interesting' but i passed my way. In front of art cornucopia, video is always the last on my list and it gets my a …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: Hyperhabitat. Reprogramming the World
The Arsenale section of the Venice Biennale of Architecture has many characteristics that makes it stand out from other architecture exhibitions. One of them is that you won't get to see cardboard models and plans. In fact, you can even walk around and inside the 1:1 scale replica of an apartment bu …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: Hyperhabitat
The Arsenale section of the Venice Biennale of Architecture has many characteristics that makes it stand out from other architecture exhibitions. One of them is that you won't get to see cardboard models and plans. In fact, you can even walk around and inside the 1:1 scale replica of a floor of an a …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: An Te Liu and Asymptote
Why do i keep reading that there's too much art at the ongoing Biennale of Architecture in Venice? Why this rush to call 'art' anything that doesn't match expectations? The projects i've seen in Venice last weekend shouldn't be defined as art (at least not very good art), maybe some specialists woul …
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Links for 2008-10-20 [del.icio.us]
chip chop shops :: hyperexperience investigation on microchip counterfeiting, which explains how electronic waste recycling is profitable: used circuit boards are baked over coal fires to loosen precious microchips. These are rinsed in the local river and sorted according to manufacturer. The chips …
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Venice Biennale of Architecture: an intro
Why do i keep reading that there's too much art at the ongoing Biennale of Architecture in Venice? Why this rush to call 'art' anything that doesn't match expectations? The projects i've seen in Venice last weekend shouldn't be defined as art (at least not very good art), maybe some specialists woul …
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Links for 2008-10-19 [del.icio.us]
AE arquitectura SCALAE: SCALAE PODCAST 154 La generación arquitectónicamente hablando 3.0, tiene dos caras. Una de ellas es la arquitectura ahistórica que se basa en la exacervación de la tecnología digital, en el analfabetismo arquitectónico, en dedicar más tiempo a la promoción de una idea que al …
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Links for 2008-10-17 [del.icio.us]
Ben Child: No sex please, we're movie lovers | Film | guardian.co.uk Steven Soderbergh has made headlines by casting a porn actress in his new film. Why is the difference between adult entertainment and the mainstream such a hot topic?
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Heartland, a walk into the art scene of the U.S 'Third Coast'
As i mentioned a couple of days ago, the Heartland exhibition on view until January 25 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) is one of the best shows i've visited this year. Heartland roughly follows the Mississippi River, taking in an area from New Orleans up to Minneapolis in the north a …
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