February 2012
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WatchPeople don’t buy what you do, people buy why you do it
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Today I learned about... Eiko Ishioka
She was an innovative costume designer and art director who brought an eerie, sensual surrealism to film and theater, album covers, the Olympics and Cirque du Soleil, in the process earning an Oscar, a Grammy and a string of other honors, died on Saturday in Tokyo.
oscar award for costume design of 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola
director of costume design...
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Watchmidoripfc:
FIN / THE END
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Costume ideas for Halloween
by missatlaplaya
More ideas HERE >
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Autobiography Iconography
via NLDR
“The illustrations on the following images are important ones stored in my head. When I design or invent a building they are always hovering somewhere above me. These are the basis of my projects. They are with me when I sit gazing at the “white sheet of paper”, so to speak. It is always my aim to build something that is related in some way or other to these images -...
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Project Remake by Booooooom!
Booooooom! is a great site created by Jeff Hamada in hopes of hosting a community of people excited to go and be creative.
The idea of this project is to remake a famous work of art using photography. If you want to get involved in the “Remake” project full details are here.
“The falling soldier”: remake by Diego Fuente / original by Robert Capa
“Automata”: remake...
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Alexandr Deineka
Born 1899, was one of the protagonists of the artistic movement that went under the name of Socialist Realism, which had as its aim to spread the ideas of the communist regime.
“In the worst moments of my life I have endeavored to look at what it is beautiful and I tried to paint pictures full of sunshine. Sports and landscape are inseparable. My joy is not complete if the magnitude of the...
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Look-a-like... Lubetkin vs Campo Baeza
Penguin Pool (Berthold Lubetkin) vs. Museo de la Memoria de Andalucía (Alberto Campo Baeza)
via parasite visions
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September 2011
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11S
by Mark Yokoyama via dearphotograph
1979 Pakistan International Airlines Advert via fuckyeahvintage-retro
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Shibaura house
via designboom:
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA) were named recipients of the 2010 Pritzker last year. For her latest project, Sejima has designed a community workshop space in the Shibaura district of Tokyo. Having been subject to massive redevelopment since the 1990s, the area, consisting largely of office buildings, has begun to take on a new face in recent years, attracting young...
August 2011
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Real paper architecture
via Lebbeus Woods
When rummaging though her extensive library, Aleksandra Wagner discovered a pattern book of the old city of Prague. Similar to a dressmaker’s pattern book, it is meant to be cut up, very precisely, and assembled into a three-dimensional paper model.
Designed and printed in the early 1970s, in Czechoslovakia, it is remarkable in several ways:
First: in that pre-computer era,...
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The mirror tower
(txt by Omar Harb arch.) via skyscrapercity
Every city is remarkable, yet clearly some are more so than others, however Beirut is an exceptional urban phenomenon. The 486 MINA EL HOSN, the ‘mirror-tower’ designed by LAN Architecture, which is absolutely novel in concept: the building’s casing will reflect the city surrounding it. One will be able to see it from everywhere, and everywhere one’s...
July 2011
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June & Helmut
You will enjoy watching “Helmut Newton by June”, a movie by Newton’s wife documenting Helmut at work. It’s an intimate, charming and yet ironic work, it’s an insight of Newton’s action through the lens of his lifelong companion. June was devoted not only to Helmut but also to his art. As she recounts, when Helmut asked her to marry him, he made clear what his priority was: “My first love is...
June 2011
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Where ships (go to) die
Near the city of Chittagong, in Bangladesh, a city of nearly 4 millions, one can find the biggest ship graveyard, or at least one of the most polluted places in the world. Today, most ship breaking yards are in developing nations, principally Bangladesh, China, and India, due to lower labor costs and less stringent environmental regulations dealing with the disposal of lead paint and other...
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Wetback
Santiago Sierra is a spanish artist based in Mexico. His work is a reflection of his personal vision of capitalism, inmigration and exploitation of the working class.
In 2006 he carried out an economical study on the skin of caracans: The skin on the back of 10 persons who declared to have zero dollars was photographed and a medium tone in a grey scale was assigned to that value.
Also, the...
May 2011
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T A N G O
Tango es un cortometraje de animación del cineasta polaco Zbigniew Rybczyński, producido en el año 1980. Duración: 8 minutos, 10 segundos. Recibió el Oscar al mejor cortometraje de animación en 1983. 36 personajes que representan 36 momentos, acciones o planos temporales diferentes y autónomos, se superponen unos a otros en el reducido espacio de una habitación.
Cada personaje fue rodado...
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Suicide magnet
Above map: suicides by location
The Golden Gate Bridge is the world’s No. 1 suicide magnet, in part because it makes suicide so easy. People jump and kill themselves there, an average of 19 a year. In the peak year, 1977, there were 40 suicides.
The jump is fatal 98 percent of the time. The San Francisco Chronicle’s research indicates that at least 1,218 suicides were reported...
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Learning from... Lo ordinario
periferiadomestica:
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[Resumen (intento) de la charla de Enrique Walker realizada el día 3 de diciembre de 2010 en la universidad de Alicante]
foto: Huelquen (Chile) by periferiadomestica
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¿Qué es lo Ordinario?
Lo banal, lo cotidiano, lo vernácular… aquello existente, que ya está ahí, que forma parte de la realidad pero la arquitectura, como disciplina, ha excluido...
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Learning from... Skate
periferiadomestica + morpho-0:
Vamos a intentar una nueva sección. Se llamará Learning From y buscaría encontrar otra manera de contar arquitectura/ciudad fuera de la disciplina tradicional (básicamente alejarse del plano urbanístico). ¡Os animo a participar!
A ver si se nos ocurren/encontramos nuevas formas de mirar a la ciudad, de representar su heterogeneidad, y con ello conseguir una base...
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Look-a-like... Otto Wagner vs Star Wars
via arquitextonica via estudiosalvaje:
Otto Wagner’s 1880 design for the central offices of the Vienna Giro und Kassenverein competition versus designer Ralph McQuarrie Millennium Falcon (Han Solo’s ship) in Star Wars.
Cemento y gasto que no volverá
elcontexto:
La crisis entierra las promesas de obra pública en un país salpicado de equipamientos caros e infrautilizados
. La crisis económica, el déficit de comunidades y Ayuntamientos -que gastan mucho más de lo que ingresan- y las escasas perspectivas de mejoría han convertido el 22-M en las elecciones con menos promesas de obra pública de la historia de la democracia. Es una de las...
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Where children sleep
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Where Children Sleep presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world—from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India—alongside portraits of the children themselves. Each pair of photographs is accompanied by an extended caption that...
NYTimes writes about new spanish ghost towns
radarqnet:
“The boom and bust of Spain’s property sector is astonishing. Over a decade, land prices rose about 500 percent and developers built hundreds of thousands of units — about 800,000 in 2007 alone. Developments sprang up on the outskirts of cities ready to welcome many of the four million immigrants who had settled in Spain, many employed in construction… But almost overnight, the...
April 2011
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Abstracción no figurativa: Miguel Fisac
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zuloark + hansbrinker:
“He llegado a la conclusión de que las soluciones técnicas son las que dan pie a soluciones formales que puedan tener interés, porque, si no, salen unas formas que tienen un origen más literario que el propiamente formal arquitectónico. Yo el problema estético me lo planteo el último, cuando otras cosas que son prioritarias se cumplen en el principio...
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What went wrong?
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew made landfall at Miami as a Category 5 storm. The affects were devastating. In December 20, 1992, the Miami Herald published a 16-page special report that examined weather records, building inspection reports, and damaged buildings. Their reporting showed how “lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction”. They...
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The uniform project
In this 2.0 society we live in, social trends like fashion blogs; were people upload their daily outfits and visitors comment, can seem very superficial and narcissistic. However, this trend can be used to make an impact and for a good cause. It’s the case of U.P Founder Sheena Matheiken who launched the Uniform Project, pledging to wear one little black dress for 365 days as an exercise...