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Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

timeline extras

experiments,

things here &there,

left-overs

Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3

designed & collected by: Alica Horvathova
https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3

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Stefanos facebook timeline Extras

July 29, 1968, Turin

-Stampa sera-

The day I was born, nothing really importanthappened (at least checking the newspaper of that

day). Still, browsing the old issue, a lot of

interesting things were happening...

More at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

http://www.archiviolastampa.it/

The day I was born, the

newspaper was kind of dull.
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July 29, 1968, Washington, DC, United States

You look for a name and you

understand it's a mirror.

-Vietnam War Memorial-

I never made any special thought related to theday I was born. But then, once, I went to

Washington D.C. to see the Vietnam War

Memorial. Since the names are placed upon a

chronological order, I was curious to see the

people who died on the day I was born. To readthese names and to think that in the same day I

was born they finished their lives, it impressed me

quite a lot. Not to mention the sheer beauty and

power of the memorial itself, one of the most

impressive places I've ever been in my whole life.

More about the Memorial at: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/...
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Dover, DE, United States

Fashioning Apollo

-Nicholas de Monchauxs Spacesuit: Fashioning

Apollo, MIT Press, 2011-

Of course, since I was not even one year old, I

can't remember much of the Moon landing. Butnow a book came out explaining the incredible

story behind one fundamental piece of the whole

venture: the space suit.

More about spacesuits and fashioning Apollo at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here the link to the website of Nicholas de

Monchauxs Spacesuit: http://fashioningapollo.

com/
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Miao Magazine

Miao Magazine is one of the best magazine I've

ever read in my whole life. Without words, onlyimages + hundreds of different activities to do.

Very fantastic! Unfortunately, this fact that you

were supposed to cut, glue, do all kind of things,

it makes very difficult to find old copies. : (

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ca. 1955

A Woman Spraying DDT

on a Window

When I was a child, I used to go to my

grandparents for the summer holiday. They lived

in southern Italy, quite different from Turin, in the

north. My grand-mother she had an obsession onflies. Everyday she would spend an incredible

amount of energy to fight flies. DDTwas her

weapon. Anwway I was never allowed to spray.

Only to watch. And to smell (DDT had an

incredibly peculiar smell). I never understood thehidden reasons of this holy war. Anyway, it was a

great fun.

More on DDT wars at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...
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Unknown Image

I really don't know why my grandmother had this

DDT obsession. It was not related to her age (my

other grandmother didn't mind flies and insects so

much). I think it had to do with the Americans

arriving to her village in 1944. I wish i would haveasked more...

More on DDT wars at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...
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1974, Passo Del Turchino

Felice Gimondi

By then (I was in grade school), I really liked Felice

Gimondi. He was the most power Italian cyclist.

Another thing really impressive was this fact of

being himself a superhero, in a world where therewas a more powerful one (Eddy Merckx).

This idea where you are a superhero but finally

you lose because there is another stronger one,

really caught on my imagination.

I remember once I read an interview to Gimondi,

and the journalist asked him if he suffered

because of the presence of Eddy Merckx. He

replied: "Not all. It was the two of you, not myselfor himself. If I would have been alone, it would

have been nothing. I was existing because of this

rivalry."
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Easter Island

Very Impressive Story

-by Rapa Nui-

I remember quite well the day when my grade

school teacher explained to us the whole story

about the stone heads in the Easter Island. Rapa

Nui, those people cutting off all the trees theyhad. I was only in fifth grade but I remember

everything she said about this place and those

curious people living there.

Never been there, but life is long...

Very nice, indeed!

More about this race (in Italian) at: http://www.

bicibg.it/01news/dettaglio.asp?id1=7&idN=7386
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1979, Torino

Then one day...

I was given an old bicycle by grandfather. I was 11or so. The bike was ok, but it was old and rusty.

So, I took it to the courtyard, and I dismantled it

in order to paint it properly.

First dismantle.

Second, go to buy some paint.

Third paint.

Fourth

More about this lost kingdom at: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/

Rapa Nui Digital Media Archive: http://archive.

cyark.org/rapa-nui-intro
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Milpitas, CA, United States

Tempest

-Dave Theurer-

Yes. Once I arrived to point 4 (re-assemble it), I

knew I would have never been able to put it back

together.

I tried. I did what I thought it was my best. But,

finally, I wasn't able.

The bike remained in the courtyard for some

weeks, then some person trashed the whole thing

(much to my relief).

This is the story of my first and only bicycle. After

that experience I never had another bike and I

never dismantled complex things.
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1994, Italy

Sottsass Goes Gas (station)

-Sottsass Associati-

I remember it was in the early '90's. I was a

student of architecture and I was really passionate

about gas stations.Those Erg gas stations, with the odd look, already

caught my attention.

Then one day I bought this big black book on

Ettore Sottsass (in my mind he was a designer andsince I was a student of architecture he was

outside my interests) and it was enlightening.

Between the others there were the Erg things.

Some fifteen years later, once I was chitchattingwith Gianluigi Mutti and he told me that in

Sottsass Associati he was the one in charge of the

Erg project and to him it was a total nightmare (he

had to design and check thousand gas stations all

around the country).
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Here I've found some images: http://www.


1998, Italy

Italian Gas Stations

(a guide to 15 fantastic)

-group who did the whole research: Alessandro

Bragaglia, Beppe Finessi, Antonio Fortugno,Stefano Mirti, Matteo Pastore e Mario Pegoraro-

I remember when we did this little guide for

Domus mag: 15 beautiful gas stations, all around

Italy.

As introduction to the maps, pictures and

drawings, Beppe Finessi wrote:

Momenti di storia dellarchitettura moderna viste

attraverso le stazioni di servizio. Storie dei nostri
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1966,

A Tower House in Jingumae

giorni, possibili storie di architetture degli

ottani e di una vita vissuta in corsa, con

acceleratore a tavoletta, vibranti nel mito del

sorpasso, con macchine cabriolet e bionde al

proprio fianco, correndo nellodore di olli bruciati,

accecati da luminarie di cani a sei zampe, ricordi

dausterity nel cuore, colonne sonore dautoradio

rubate in testa, miti on the road, Bagdad Cafe

negli occhi, Antonioni da capezzale, preferenza

strade blu. Un itinerario di stazioni di servizio

come una semplice carrellata di suggestioni in un

primo elenco di progetti deccezione. Dautore e

anonimi

The images are at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

-Azuma Takamitsu-
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To find information about Azuma Takamitsu is

quite impossible. We know little.

On-line there is close to nothing. He did a

concrete house that was a masterpiece in 1966,

few years later he founded (with Aida Takefumi,

Miyawaki Mayumi, Suzuki Makoto,Takeyama

Minoru) the counter-Metabolist group called

Architext.

Here the link to see the images of the house: http:

//www.facebook.com/media/set/

Enjoy the images and if you go to Tokyo don't miss

it...

Tokyo

A Sky House

-Kikutake's Sky House-

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Another project I really liked at the Metabolist

exhibition. It is probably his best project ever.

More about this house at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

1970, Shinjuku-ku, Japan

A Submarine Flying in the Sky

(over Tokyo)

-Yoji Watanabe, Sky Building #3, Tokyo-

I remember one evening, I was walking between

Shinjuku and Okubo and raising up my eyes a

concrete submarine appeared. It was very strange.Some days later I went back during the day and I

was able to climb up all the way, till the rooftop.

Quite a surreal and strange setting.

A submarine flying over Tokyo. I took me

sometime to find who was the author. This is oneof my favorite buildings in Tokyo. Although
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2003, Foggia

The first time I met Giuseppe Vele it was at this

Beyond Media festival organized by Marco Brizzi

and Paola Giaconiain Florence. I knew his work

"Baku" a smart landscape system to collect rain in

dry territories. To get to know him was nicebecause he was (and he is) a very funny lad. More

images about the Baku system at: http://www.


An article (in Italian) where you get explainedthe overall concept in details:

Rain Collection System (Baku)

Watanabe was never recognized by the other

Metabolist architects, his building is truly fantastic

and special.

More at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...
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http://architettura.it/artland/20030814/baku...

2008, Roma, Italia

-A very nice project set up by a group of people

led by Alberto Cottica.-

On their website we can read:

Kublai is a social network geared towards the

design of creative projects with regional

development implications; it uses many different

channels, from the web to Second Life to real life

meetups. The idea behind it is that a nonlocal

community to interact with is useful for locally

active innovative people. Kublai is a pilot project

of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.

Keep reading at:

Kublai Project
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Karlskoga

More at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Magnus Muh, Fun Things

to Do with Dead Flies

http://www.progettokublai.net/eng/

Here the general link (mostly in Italian): http:

//www.progettokublai.net/

Thanks to Fabio Fornasari for the link.
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Seoul, South Korea

-Jeong Hwa Choi-

More about Jeong Hwa Choi fascinating concept

at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

I always dreamed about a building made out only

of doors. In my mind it was some kind of concrete

skeleton with thousand doors in each floor to

define space. But this too is a very fascinating

concept. You open a door (any door), you walk off

and you are flying...

The 1000 Doors Building
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Saint-Omer, France

-Liber Floridus (the Book of Flowers) by Lambert,Canon of St Omer-

Whenever I see one of those medieval books

containing the whole knowledge, I get really

excited. The best ones come from Arabic culture,but also in Europe there are some crazy examples.

More on Liber Floridus: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

One thing I really are the

medieval encyclopedias, so

nice...
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Antro Della Sibilla Cumana

One of the nice things of having to do a museum in

Naples is that you have to go to Naples quite

often. Every time we go, I try to get to stay somemore so that I can go to see things around. This

time, my friend Giuseppe Vele took me to explore

the magic (underground) world of the Sibyl in

Cuma. Upon Virgil, the gateway to the

Underworld. Very fascinating. Not Roman, notGreek, not Etruskan... An odd place impossible to

connect to other architectures or buildings you

have seen before. To find something similar (in its

concept) we have to go to Angkor Wat. Very

interesting. Here some more images: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here the links to Wikipedia where you can find all

you need to know about ms Sibyl and its specific

Cuman version:

Gateway to the Underworld

(Virgil's take)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl +

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl

Padua

-by Giotto-

The interior spaces designed by Giotto in the

vaults and walls of Cappella degli Scrovegni in

Padua are something fairly fantastic... More at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

An angel enters my window...
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San Francisco, CA, United States

A lovely "House of Cards" deck, revisualized by LSD

(Ludicrous Systems Developments). Quite nice.

More about it at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Thanx to Adelaide Testa for the link.

Charles Eames goes

psychedelic...
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Chicago, IL, United States

The day started nice because I've received a great

link by Davide Sacconi. He found this: http:

//rndrd.com/Cut and paste from the homepage:RNDRD is a frequently updated feed of high-quality

images from published architectural projects of

the 20th century. RNDRD does not publish

photographs of completed work, only renderings:

hand-drawing, collage, models and graphics of allsorts. Really really nice. At the same time, if you

want to know/see more about Stanley Tigerman

conceptual works, here is the link: http://www.


The Square

(upon Stanley Tigerman)
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since 1982, Stockholm, Sweden

-by humans-

As a general, for unknow reasons, whenever I seea readymade something, I get always intrigued and

often excited. To me, a readymade is a synonym

of intelligence (also if in 98% this is not the case).

More on this "Collection of Lights" at: http://www.


A Curious Readymade Light -

Not Bad
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Lebedyan, Russia

-from: Colos Magazine-

I went to Fabrica for a lecture. I was given somerecent issues of Colors Magazine. I didn't check it

for years. A very nice magazine indeed! There was

this issue on transportation with all kind of

fascinating stories. For instance, here is the link to

the story of this Russian gentleman who started tobuild his personal subway system some 30 years

ago and he is (obviously) still working at it. Very

very nice! More about him at: http://www.


Leonid Murlyanchik and His

Personal Subway
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1946, Los Angeles, CA, United States

-by Edgar Ulmer-

It's a noir, by Edgar Ulmer. It should be a cult-movie. When watching it, I though it was crap. But

then, it really sticks into my mind.

Mmmmmmhhhhhh... More at: http://en.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_%281945_film%29

Last night I watched Detour,

a very odd movie.
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Naples

-project by: mischer'traxler-

Well, this project is not exactly new. To be

precise is a project by Katharina Mischer and

Thomas Traxler, around 2008/9. I knew the

project but I never had the chance to meet the

two Viennese designers. But the Marco Petroni and

Plart organized this workshop in Naples while we

were setting up things related to Id-Lab new

interactive wing.

So we met. Very nice couple, very smart and very

charming. Their things on show at Plart were nice,

we had some nice time in chaotic Naples and

everyone enjoyed pretty much.

More about this super project: http://www.


More about the "Idea of a tree project": http://www.mischertraxler.com/...

The Idea of a Tree
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May 27, 2011

They asked me: "why do you do this?"

I don't know, I do it because i like (first and more

relevant reply).

At the same time, there is a thought about how

you travel in the digital age.

Traditionally, architects and designers traveled a

lot with their sketchbook.

This is nice, and this I did.

But then, I asked myself, how do you travel in the

fb age?

This I don't know, this is an experiment.

We will see...

1962

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXMp5BHZ_o

Chris Marker, La jete

(The Jetty or The Pier)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXMp5BHZ_ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXMp5BHZ_o

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4E1nm...

1967

Jorgen Leth, The Perfect

Human

1977

Charles and Ray Eames,

Power of Ten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=sharehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4E1nm6SYw

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1958

Edgard Varese and

Le Corbusier, Poeme

Electronique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=WQKyYmU2tPg&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKyYmU2tPg&feature=sharehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQKyYmU2tPg&feature=share

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1971

Gordon Matta-Clark,

Tree Dance

-the original movie was silent-

http://vimeo.com/3308233
http://vimeo.com/3308233

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A (very) Special Sundial

Rome

The other day I went to Rome. I had time enough

to take a quick trip to Santa Maria degli Angeli

where is one of nicest sundials i know. The

technical name is: analemmatic sundial. A little

hole on the wall and a measuring rod on the floor.

A very simple yet very special machine. Lovely!

More about it at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

June 29, 2011

Tonight, we test how to mix my facebookcollection with the analog world.

It's a dry run (we never done it before), the big

event will be next week.

So, if you are in Milan, come to see our

experiments
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.273035069422093.64461.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.273035069422093.64461.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rome-Italy/115353315143936

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Basel, Switzerland

Written Images (or, The

Generative Manifesto)

To strike one to educate one hundred

Case study #1: Dziga Vertov vs Madonna

music mash-up +visual mash up

Continix / BeeBee + Signor G

Cubo in via della Moscova 28, Milan

From 9 to 10 pm

The best way to explain this interesting project is

to cut and paste the curator (Martin Fuchs andPeter Bichsel) statement: "Created in

collaboration with more than 70 media artists and

developers from across the world, Written Images

is the first of its kind. A programmed book,

continuously regenerated for the digital printingprocess, offering each reader a unique
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experience. Each artist programed an image

creating application that interpreted and

visualised data from various sources. Every

application runs through an auto-generative

printing program which generates and compiles

high resolution complex and never to be repeated

images. To produce the book Written Images, the

programs and pictures are now hung in a software

command chain. These programs visualize internet

data-streams or display self-generated content.

They are able to save continuously changing

images on demand. A specially-designed

application controls the image-generating

programs that each produce four-page speads in

the book, and produce On demand an individual

book. Each resulting Book (450 pages) is therefore

unique". More on this project at: http://www.


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London, United Kingdom

An Immersive Room

We keep finding interesting references for our

"motel infinite" project. Here is the immersive

room produced by Soni with the support of Studio

Output and Marshmallow Laser Feast: More on

"Great Films Fill Rooms" at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Thanx to Pierluigi Anselmi for the link.
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New York Subway

A Crossword Marathon

Some days ago Effe Gi sent me the link to Amir

Naderi's Marathon movie. A very special short

movie, really nice and worth to see.

Here you can get some screenshots: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

And here you can watch the movie: http://www.

youtube.com/watch?v=VcCWcLaZ6y0
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Glitch Porn (literally not

figuratively)

Wikipedia defines a glitch as: "...a short-lived fault

in a system. It is often used to describe a transient

fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult

to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common

in the computing and electronics industries, and incircuit bending, as well as among players of video

games, although it is applied to all types of

systems including human organizations and

nature".

Here some more glitches: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

Thanks to prof. Anselmi for the link.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.293509147374685.68491.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.293509147374685.68491.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.293509147374685.68491.268422276550039&type=1

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Linkping, Sweden

Ursaab, or the Streamlined

Frog...

Very sad to read that Saab finally died. Their first

car (the Ursaab, the "original" Saab), goes back to

1945. A very nice story: http://www.saabmuseum.com/ursaab/...

More on Ursaab: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

Here is Saab obituary: http://blog.caranddriver.com/obituary-saab-automobile.../

Thanx to Legrenzi Susannafor the link.
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Strasbourg, France

Popville!

A very nice present received by Laura Perin and

Tommaso Maggio: Popville!

I like when people give me presents I like (not so

easy, not so common).

Here you can see some more images of this special

paper city: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

Here a lovely book-trailer about Popville: http:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2U4mN10gQ
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Datong, China

A Chinese Painter, And

Sometimes Poet...

We know little about Kao K'o-Kung (also

traslitterated as Gao Kekong). He was a painter as

well as a poet.

Painter in the Yuan Dynasty, a native of Datong,

ShanXi province. His style name was Yan Jing and

his sobriquet was Fang Shan.

He was an Uygur nationality. He first studied

painting under Mi Fu and Mi You ren, later referred

to the style of Dong Yuan then created his own

style. He established his fame for his mountains

and clouds painting. He created a new style ofLandscape painting in the Yuan Dynasty with Zhao

Meng fu.

More images of his landscape works at: http:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.288833667842233.67691.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.288833667842233.67691.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.288833667842233.67691.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Datong/107907879232430

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Japan

Layered Landscapes

With Francesco Librizzi (who found the link to this

image), we keep thinking how to develop the

"Motel Infinite" work. Here is a nice reference.

Nobuhiro Nakanishi's layered landscapes. More at:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.274540432604890.64864.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Japan/105672799466531?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Tamiya Plamodel Factory

Isn' this ?

I love this Tamiya advertising campaign based on

conspiracy theories. Thanx to Legrenzi Susanna for

the link and here you can see the whole series (in

the image above, Elvis kit): http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.295490623843204.68798.268422276550039&type=3&savedhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.295490623843204.68798.268422276550039&type=3&savedhttps://www.facebook.com/legrenzi.susannahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Tamiya-Plamodel-Factory/106700662747112?ref=stream

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Airola

In the Meanwhile...

I like pretty much when people send me things to

look at.

In this extent, Beniamino Servino, he gives me a

lot of fun.

Here is a new series of his collages, made on his

own photographs (or working on other people -

like Alessandro Scandurra or Maria Gelvi): http:


If you have nice things you do, send their images

to me: I like it...
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Victoria Station

Home Furnishing

One thing that always impresses me is this fact

that whenever an artist does something normally

done by a designer, he or she does it 1000 times

better.

In this image, Allen Jonesfamous chair. If you

want to see the whole set of his home furnitures,

here is the link: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

ps. the hatstand is the best piece (I think).

Here the link to the article: "Allen Jones: The day I

turned down Stanley Kubrick": http://www.

telegraph.co.uk/.../Allen-Jones-The-day-I

(to turn down Kubrick, you must be pretty cool...)
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Mockba

My (new) boss, she knows her

way.

September 19, 2011

"That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me! You know what

that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It

dosen't show up on your airport X-ray machines,

and it cost more than you make here in a month".

(Bruce Willis, in Die Hard 2)

I've got to work for this Russian people on this

project for a new school to be done in Milan. Very

fine and dandy, although from time to time they

come up with odd things.

The young lady running the biz for instance, she
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likes sports. Per se, this would be nothing special.

A lot of people like sports. She like shooting.

Shooting with her Glock.

Life is nice because everyday you learn new

things. Today is the day I learned things about

Glocks. More images at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

Universal Geographies

I was trying to find out who is the author of this

lovely image, but I wasn't able to succeed.

Apart from my failure, while bouncing from a

tulblr to another, I finally ended up in: http://istanton.tumblr.com/post/6542038732 where I

found this great quote by Jim Jarmusch:

Steal Everything!
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Prezzemolo (Parsley)

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that

resonates with inspiration or fuels your

imagination. Devour old films, new films, music,

books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,

random conversations, architecture, bridges,

street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light

and shadows. Select only things to steal from that

speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your

work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is

invaluable; originality is non-existent. And dont

bother concealing your thieverycelebrate it if

you feel like it. In any case, always remember

what Jean-Luc Godard said: Its not where you

take things fromits where you take them to.

(Jim Jarmusch)

Milan

In Italian language when someone is everywhere
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and try to be alwasy there, we say he is like

"prezzemolo" (parsley: in cooking you can use it at

width).

In the recent years, Bruno Munari became the

parsley of Italian design. If you don't know what

exhibition to do, if you don't know which book to

publish or which author to quote... ...you go for

Munari and everyone is happy.

Munari is everywhere, he is understood as a guru,

while he was not (and the overall of his career

although interesting does not make him as

important as he is felt now).

Regardless of all of this, the other day I've found

an old book of him, "Design as Art" (kind of

concept I really hate), I went through it and there

was a collectionof faces I really loved. Here are

Munari's faces: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

And here is the link to his "Design as Art" book.

A very nice book, although design is not art and

art is not design and because this very simple fact

never understood by Munari, this is why finally, he

is just a toymaker

http://www.penguin.co.uk/.../Boo.../0,,

9780141035819,00.html
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Via Pastrengo, Milano

Pierluigi Anselmo Anselmi

Anselli as Bacchino Malato

Last night I had dinner with prof. Anselmi. Very

nice chitchat. We talked about this, about that,

about lots of things. His house, I really like it.Also, he told me a lot of stories related to him

working with Paolo Rosselli. I understood various

things about Anselmi and Rosselli that I never

imagined before. Some images about his very nice

house (also thanks to Duilio Forte at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

More about prof. Anselmi: http://www.

pierluigianselmi.com/
http://www.pierluigianselmi.com/https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.278382122220721.65707.268422276550039&type=1http://www.pierluigianselmi.com/http://www.pierluigianselmi.com/https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.278382122220721.65707.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.278382122220721.65707.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pierluigi.anselmihttps://www.facebook.com/pierluigi.anselmihttps://www.facebook.com/pierluigi.anselmihttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Via-Pastrengo-Milano/309699862444326?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Tokyo, Japan

Digital Sandwich and Other

(interesting) Stories

In the past I had the chance to meet Paolo Rosselli

several times in different social events. But then,

for anumber of various reasons, wenever reallytalked each other. Then. one day Pierluigi

Anselmo Anselmi Anselli(who worked with him for

a very long time), explained to me a lot things

about his peculiar way to understand and practice

photography. Basically Rosselli says somethinglike: "There is no more distinction between

subject and background. Digital photo finished the

idea of photography as ordered and hierarchically

organized view". Photoshop based post-production

becomes a fundamental step in the process. Eachlayer of the image gets its own specific treatment,

generating a completely new image. Here above, a

detail of a picture he took in Tokyo in 2007. More

at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/
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Seven Electric Chairs... ...as

You Like It

Some days ago, Bob Wilson presented his seven

electric chairs (made in collaboration with

Kartell).

Not bad. I like them. Unfortunately, for the time

being they will remain prototypes (for rich

collectors). It wouldn't been bad to have them in

production for real

Here you can see them all: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

Here the link to his seminal "Sandwich Digitale"

(Quodlibet, 2009): http://www.quodlibet.

it/schedap.php?id=1880

Here the link to Paolo Rosselli website: http:

//www.paolorosselli.com/
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Messina

Pretty Faces

The work with the Russian lady goes on.

Not so easy to overlap properly the crazy (Jewish)

Russian and the Italian lads. Surely is great fun.

Not sure where it will take...

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if

she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

~William Somerset Maugham

More pretty faces by Antonello da Messina at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.294086200650313.68584.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Messina-Italy/106276899411290?ref=stream

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September 27, 2011

bertram niessen and myself in conversation on the

intimate ambiguity of instagram world (in italian):

http://doppiozero.com/materiali/interviste/l

ambigua-intimita-fotografica-di-instagram

The It girl (some more)

Tokyo, Aoyama

We keep working on the fashion / design school

September 27, 2011

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what'scheese? Corpse of milk"

(James Joyce)
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for the Russian people. Quite interesting the part

to look for all the visuals for web and things.

Here is Jules Julien graphic work: http://www.


The Jaguar

The Jaguar E-Type is pure

beauty.

-the one owned by Diabolik is beyond beauty-

Enzo Ferrari famously stated that "The Jaguar E-

Type is the most beautiful car ever built". Ofcourse when the Giussani sisters had to find a car

for Diabolik and Eva, the choice was quite given.

Lovely car, lovely couple, here we go...

Here some more images about the E-Type:
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She is the one who inventedCamp.

Luisa, Marquise Casati Stampa di Soncino (23

January 1881 1 June 1957) an eccentric Italian

heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

To find information on the car is very easy. If you

are not Italian, this Diabolik name might be

unfamiliar. Here is the link to the basic info: http:

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolik

September 29, 2011

"I want to be a living work of art."

(Luisa, Marquise Casati Stampa di Soncino)
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20th century Europe. As the concept of dandy was

expanded to include women, the marchesa Casati

fitted the utmost female example by saying: "I

want to be a living work of art".

Working with Angelica to set up the fashion and

design school, our Marquise is quite an appropriate

example.

Here the link with some stunning images of ms

Casati Stampa (including a number of great shots

by Man Ray): http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

Oddly enough, I don't know how, she even

managed to get her own website: http://www.

marchesacasati.com/

And here some more from Vogue Italia: http:

//www.vogue.it/.../obsession...

/2011/01/marchesa-casati

Matteo Menin says: "Ne avevo letto la biografia e

fatta una malattia, probabilmente la donna italica

pi interessantein circolazione cent'anni fa, a

Venezia la immaginavo con la sua pantera dietro i

cancelli di Ca' Leoni": http://www.guidecampania.

com/dellarag.../articolo49/f048.jpg
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Gothenburg, Sweden

A Desk Who Gets Old and

Changes Day by Day

Probably the form factor ain't best. But the

concept is nice. Love Hultn made this Senescent

Desk. A quick description from Design Milk zine: "Aproject about natural change without maintenance

and a story about interaction. The Senescent Desk

is basically a self-sufficient gardening system

based on a water-tank, mist makers, two fans, a

growth substrate material made from recycledplastic and a digital time. The idea is that over

time, the vegetation will flourish and (hopefully)

eventually attack the artifact without the need

of human interaction". More at: http://www.

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West Los Angeles

He said: Lana-Ray, will you

serve me lemonade?

Don't ya wanna come to my motel honey?

Don't ya wanna hold me down, tell me that you

love me?Don't ya know that I have really loved nobody, but

you?

I'll do my hair up all high and wide, wild flowers

tiedGreen swimming pool pink flamingos, high

christmas lights

Blue bedspread and silver tinsel, my hearts delight

Don't ya wanna come to my motel honey?Don't ya wanna hold me down, tell me that you

love me?

Don't ya know that I have really never loved

nobody, but you?
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Do you like my fake nails daddy?

Black palmtree pink tiger-stripes

Used to go to the kamfreena

Will you buy me a slice of cherry pie?

We didn't know much, just worked at night

Sweet trailer light

1,2..



love me?

Don't ya know that I have really loved nobody, but

you?



love me?

Never loved nobody, but you

He said: Lana-Ray, will you serve me lemonade?

And I said: yes Bill I will, its the day of the parade

and you look even more handsome than you did

the day that I left you

And I said: how do you spend your nights, honey?

Still watchin' TV? I long to be in your arms, sugar,

Come back to me

Please

All I want is to feel good

All I want is to feel good

All I want is to feel good you know?

Come on now if you want to

If you want to if you want to

Its been a long time



love me?

Don't ya know that I have really loved nobody, but

you?



love me?

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Never loved nobody, but you

(Lana del Rey, (Trash / Miss America)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwL7f57cDJY

Bioluminescent Billboards

UC San Diego

This is the "design" i really like. To use

microbacteria in order to transform them into abillboard. I always love fireflies, but this is way

smarter.

More about Jeff Hasty magic (and a little bit

spooky too) inventions at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

Thanx to Petra Tikulin for the link.
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The More I Get Old...

Paris, France

..the more I like Yona Friedman stuff. In the above

image a 1959 model of his "Ville Spatiale" concept.

Not so sure it is a really good sign (at least for

me), to like Friedman's concepts more and more. I

have to think about. For the time being, you canget some more of Yona's stuff at: http://www.

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Apple 1

Los Altos, CA, United States

The original Apple Computer, also known

retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a

personal computer released by the Apple

Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. They

were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.

Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling

the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first

product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his

only means of transportation, a VW van. It wasdemonstrated in April 1976 at the Homebrew

Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of

US$666.66, because Wozniak "liked repeatingdigits" and because they originally sold it to a local

shop for $500 plus a one-third markup. About 200

units were produced. Unlike other hobbyist

computers of its day, which were sold as
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kits, the Apple I was a fully assembled circuit

board containing about 60+ chips.

However, to make a working computer, users still

had to add a case, power supply transformers,

power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite

video display. An optional board providing a

cassette interface for storage was later released

at a cost of $75.

Steven Paul Jobs, February 24, 1955/October 5,

2011

Here the link to some more images of Apple I:

http://www.facebook.

com/pages/Blueberries/268422276550039...

October 5, 2011

"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to

experience a different life, run a marathon." (Emil

Zatopek)
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Fashion, Fashoff!

Milan

I don't know much about fashion, but surely Franco

Moschino was a great lad and I am sad there is so

little about him on-line.

Here are some images of his works: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

And here some little more about him: http:

//www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/des.../franco-

moschino/
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Some More Landscape...

-Giorgione, The Tempest, ca. 1508-

On the right a woman sits, suckling a baby. She

could be a gypsy, or to some people's eyes a

prostitute. Her pose is unusual - normally the baby

would be held on the mother's lap; but in this case

the baby is positioned at the side of the mother,so as to expose her pubic area. This appears to

signal that the mother's realm is the everyday

rather than the sacred.

A man, possibly a soldier, holding a long staff orpike, stands in contrapposto on the left. He smiles

and glances to the right, but does not appear to be

looking at the woman. Art historians have

identified the man alternatively as a soldier, a

shepherd, a gypsy, or a member of a club ofunmarried men.

X-rays of the painting have revealed that in the

place of the man, Giorgione originally painted

another female nude. To some, he represents

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steadfastness; they point to the pillars behind

him, which often symbolize force or strength.

These pillars, however, are brokena classic

symbol of death. One may also note the stork on

the rooftop on the right. Storks sometimes

represent the love of parents for their children.

Full-sized imaged and the rest of the explanation

at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest_%

28Giorgione%29

Io sono Li (or, I Am Li)

Chioggia

Last night I watched this movie called:

"Io sono Li". Quite unexpected. A young Italian

author, his first fiction work (2011), a nice story

about a young Chinese immigrant having to run an

osteria in Chioggia, near Venice. The lagoon
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http://www.marcsilver.net/ ), and the image was

forwarded by @tristamsparks on Twitter.

The Diagram Queen

Seoul, South Korea

I discovered this Korean artist, An Minjeong and

her special diagrams (A Study on Pseudo-Scientific

Expressions of Metaphysical Awareness). A quite

impressive work. To see more images here is thelink: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here is the website of the artist: http://myartda.

com/

And this is how she explains the work: "Human

beings have acknowledged mental world for a long

time, that is, metaphysical awareness, and

endeavored to make it attainable. The purposes of

this study are to examine how invisible and
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abstract figures that people can feel in their daily

routine are expressed as art particularly in

drawings and how I illustrated them in my

drawings"

"With a historical consideration of metaphysical

expressions in drawings, the research aims at

finding that its subjects have been an incantation,

religion, eternity, rank, divinity, subjective

emotion, and abstract from the primitive age to

the present, and proving the metaphysical

expressions of mine by pseudo-scientific method

on the basis of the previous metaphysics.

However, the desire to scientifically express

metaphysical awareness eventually becomes mock

science at the scientific point of view. This is

rather the drawing combined with individual and

scientific theories. It looks very dry and scientific

but its inner world exceptionally contains authors

own emotional and footloose imagination. Mental

world that cannot be scientifically demonstrated is

ultimately proved as pseudo-scientific way

combined with irrational opinions, and its pseudo-

scientific evidence makes another drawings. The

collision derived from science and art forms a

different dimensional metaphysical abstract

drawing"

(Minjeong An)

October 10, 2011

"You keep saying you've got something for me,

something you call love, but confess.

You've been messin' where you shouldn't have beena messin' and now someone else is gettin' all your

best..."

(Nancy Sinatra, These boots are made for walking)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbyAZQ45...
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Rue Reaumur

These boots are made for

walking.

Every time I see an image of Mergiela's tabi boots,

it's quite a nice feeling. In this version, the overall

is particularly impressive. Bravi!

More boots at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

If you want to know more about tabi boots, here isthe link: http://www.jika-tabi.com/
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There are things I never do.

Ristorante Jodok / Ex-Ospedale Psichiatrico PaoloPini

One of them is going to theatre.

Not that I don't like theater, simply, it doesn't

happen.

So I was very happy the other day when Alessandro

Scandurra invited me to go to watch "Lucido", a

play written by Rafael Spregelburd.

It was a special thing for a number of reasons. The

first one is that this Spregelburd although not

superfamous is a very important chap from

Argentina, a guarantee going-to-be-star (I like

when I get to know/cross stars and their thingsbefore they reach the star-ness condition).

Next is this fact that the "Lucido" show was set in

Milan by Milena Costanzo and Roberto Rustioni.

Two excellent actors and cultural activist. Finally,
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the place where all of this happened: the Pini

madhouse in Milanese outskirts.

A very special night. The play was excellent, the

dinner after the play even more. There were the

actors, mr Spregelburd, Alessandro (not to forget

the mental patients running the restaurant) + a lot

of other things too long to be listed here.

Thanxthanxthanx to Milena and Alessandro and all

the other nice people

Here is the link to Rafael Spregelburd website:

http://www.spregelburd.com.ar/

And here is a note on "Lucido" (in Italian):http:

//www.teatrailer.it/spettacoli/lucido

The Other Nice Thing

Ristorante Jodok / Ex-Ospedale Psichiatrico Paolo

Pini
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The other nice thing of going to watch this

"Lucido" play (set it up by Milena Costanzo and

Roberto Rustioni on Rafael Spregelburd text), is

this fact that mr Spregelburd flew all the way from

Buenos Aires to come to watch it.

This I like.

He was asked by fanciful Ronconi to have his stuff

for the important theatre, but he nixed him

because he liked Milena and Roberto better.

He loved the idea to have his play set by an

indipendent production, on show in a madhouse

(not to mention that all the important critics had

to move their asses from Rome and come to this

odd location in the middle of nowhere, with the

mentally ill patient running the little theater, the

restaurant end everything else).

Very unusual, very special, very nice and very one

of those things that make in some extent worth

living on this planet.

Here the link to the short videoclip with Milena

and Roberto explaining their work: http://www.

youtube.com/watch?v=tFMq-6LGEHw
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Some More Paper Stuff...

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Some more images at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

And here some more: http://www.culturebase.

net/artist.php?210

Thanks to Francesco Librizzi for the links to today's

images (Bodys Isek Kingelez's papercraft worlds).

Here what they have at Jean Pigozzi collection

about this super artist:

http://www.caacart.com/new/pigozzi-artist...

October 14, 2011

The ultimate roller coaster is built when you send

out twenty-four people and they all come backdead. This could be done, you know"
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(John Allen, former president of the famed

Philadelphia Toboggan Company)

Dress Code: Wear Black

Stazione Ferroviaria Milano-Porta Garibaldi

This morning I was waiting for my friends at the

station.

They were some ten, fifteen minutes late and I

was looking at the people passing by. It was 8.30

am, rush hour.

One thing that I noticed is that most of people

dress in black or very dark color (at least in Milan).

Let's say that people's figures have two parts

(upper and lower). Average, out of twenty people

passing by, about 15 are completely black or dark,

let's say two are dressed in white (full or half), one

or two have one half colored, and 1 is
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Paperworlds

Angela Ruisent me the link to this article on www.

designboom.comwhere there are a lot of pictures

about Katsumi Hayakawa works. It's a world on

paper. Better, they are complete paperworlds.

completely colored.

Finally, the overall look is an army of black

silhouettes storming in the station. Very strange.

We could dress in a very colorful way, but finally

most is black, lots are dark and few are white or

clear...

Wonder why

looked like to be in a 1970's letraset world http:

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Not so easy to explain, the best is for you to see

the images. Here is the link: http://www.


Here is the website of our papermaster:http:

//katsumihayakawa.com/
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