A breathtaking project now completed by the Powerhouse Museum, is a blog called “Walking the Wall” which documents the day by day hike on the “The Great Wall” in China. A highly creative usage of blogs and alternative exhibitions. A web documentary if you will.
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Free Nation Foundation & Buy Sealand are two seperate ideas that will probably converge in the near future. The idea is to buy an island and become a sovereign state where intellectual property rights are non-existant, to the actual creation of a new country with a new governing philosophy of freedom where people could actually [...]
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The Siam Paragon Shopping Center in Bangkok
Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardening is a new organic architectural element, which should be the default in the future.
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Drop Spots is a kind of alternative mailbox. It’s a hiding place in a public space, where people can leave things for exchange. Anything. It’s a wierd and wonderful way to add personal character to the streets that we live in. Stash something fun and see what you get back. Not much going on [...]
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Young UK designer Jennifer Marriott has developed a simple yet ingenious way to bury the traditional coat rack with her cube style design. This coat rack and storage area is a contemporary look at what the traditional hallstands used to be. It’s a very creative solution to the Coat Rack problem and I think I [...]
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The Unstabalizer is a social application system for bars, clubs and any location or event which sells alcohols. Yeah, the alcohol stock exchange. It’s live and I’m sure this thing is one of the most incredible ideas coming to life.
via WMMNA
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a new online music/culture publication called Santral Muzik, featuring an article by our own anyguy. Unfortunately it’s only in Turkish :(
Abur Cubur muzik ruhun gidasi mi?
Akilli bilgisayarlar ve gelecekte muzik
Kentle$me ve Kent Muzigi Kavrami
Bir zamanlar Amiga Scene
Post-rock ya da batinin yeni sesi
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Kuratörlüğünü Ali Akay’ın gerçekleştirdiği Thierry Kuntzel ve Jean Jacques Lebel’ın çalışmalarından oluşan sergi Beyoğlu Akbank Sanat Galerisi’nde ziyaret edilebilir. Sergide ünlü yazar ve düşünür Deleuze‘ye ait doküman, ölümünden sonra çıkan gazete küpürleri ve çeşitli ülkelerde basılmış kitapları sergileniyor. Ziyaretçiler giriş katında gösterilen Thierry Kuntzel’in “Dalgalar” adlı videosunu izleyebilir veya bir diğer katta Deleuze’nin Türkçeye çevrilmiş [...]
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J. Storrs Hall
03/28/2006
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Computers built by nanofactories
may be millions of times more
powerful than anything we have
today, capable of creating
world-changing AI in the coming
decades. But to avoid a dystopia,
the nature (and particularly
intelligence) of government (a giant
computer program — with guns) will
have to change.
READ MORE
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Loop.PH produces incredible ambient textile products and light installations. Their Weather Patterns installation is on permanent display at York Art Gallery, and their Blumen wallpaper is to die/kill for.
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