Dezeenwire: the UK government has announced it is abandoning plans to build or refurbish 715 schools and scrapping the Building Schools for the Future programme in a £5 billion cost-cutting drive: Department for Education
In occasione del pre-serata del 9 luglio al Nike Temporary Store di Milano per Stories of Style, mi è solleticata la voglia di costruire una scarpa da customizzare in formato big-size! Il primo lettore e la prima lettrice che indovineranno il nome completo del modello che andrò a realizzare potranno passare a ritirare il proprio voucher durante la serata. Sotto con le proposte quindi, vi ricordo che come risposta vale un tuo commento, uno solo per utente. Possono partecipare tutti da adesso fino alle 17 del 9 luglio.
Il vincitore sarà proclamato durante la serata!
Stories of Style
Venerdì 9 Luglio – dalle 18 alle 21
c/o Nike Temporary Store
C.so Vittorio Emanuele
Milano
A miniseries documents an alt-Jewish cultural scene emerging in NYC
Brooklyn-based filmmaker Jesse Zook Mann’s latest documentary project delves into the radical Judaism scene in New York. Originally announced on the crowd-sourced funding site Kickstarter, Punk Jews just reached their goal of raising $10,000 to make the film. Featuring musicians, artists, fashion designers and philosophers, Zook Mann describes Punk Jews as, “People owning their heritage, being creative with it, having fun with it—and doing so at any cost.”
The alternative Jews featured include Cholent, a group of singing, dancing, music-playing, debating hasidic jews, that meet once a week to pray; 30-year-old half African-American, half Puerto Rican orthodox Jewish rapper Y-Love, who draws crowds at shows around town; Rivka Karasik, a 34-year-old mixed media artist, left her orthodox upbringing to experiment with religion through art; and Levi Okunov, who also left the hasidic community to experiment with controversial women’s clothing that juxtaposes revealing cuts with traditional symbols.
Hoping to shoot a feature-length documentary, the number of stories they found overwhelmed the producers, who decided to create a miniseries of documentaries instead. Learn more on the Punk Jews website.
You can also get a little taste by checking out the rough cut we recorded from the Punk Jews Fundraiser on June 19, 2010 in NYC, featuring the band Golem (above).
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has created a series of site specific installations in and around the Hayward Gallery in London, including this domed nylon structure. (more…)
Des sculptures, des installations, et des oeuvres de grande qualité par Alexandre Arrechea, Marco Castillo et Dagoberto Rodriguez travaillant depuis 1994 sous le nom de Los Carpinteros. Reconnus de la scène artistique contemporaine cubaine, une sélection est à découvrir dans la suite.
pThis is freaking awesome: Two MIT guys, sixth-year grad student A HREF=”http://people.csail.mit.edu/rywang/” Robert Y. Wang/A of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Associate Professor A HREF=”http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/” Jovan Popovic/A, have come up with a brilliant and inexpensive hand-tracking interface. It’s basically just a webcam and a flamboyantly-colored glove, the kind of thing a football player would beat you up for wearing in a small-town conservative high school:/p
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pFor interested parties, Wang and Popovic have tons-o’-videos showing proof of concept and different applications of the technology A HREF=”http://people.csail.mit.edu/rywang/hand/” here/A./p
pAny chance this will see mainstream application? Perhaps–Popovic’s also a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe! Photoshop gloves, anyone?/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/flamboyant_gloves_make_for_an_interesting_interface_design_breakthrough_16877.asp”(more…)/a
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La CH04 Houdini Chair è stata disegnata da Stefan Diez per E15. E’ stata inserita nella top 20 della Red Dot Design Awards.
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pYou’ve seen it in the movies: The blindfolded military guy dutifully field-stripping his weapon, a scene that has become visual shorthand for IThis guy is a seriously committed soldier./I But we wonder if he could also operate these complicated multitools without the benefit of sight./p
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pYep, both Leatherman and Gerber have come out with special multitools, dedicated Swiss Army knives–sorry, make that U.S. Army knives–that contain a scraper, curved pick, cleaning rod and the like, specifically designed to clean M16 and AR15 assault rifles. Leatherman’s tool, the A HREF=”http://www.leatherman.com/products/product.asp?id=465f=74c=73″ MUT/A pictured up top, is coming out in September; Gerber’s tool, the A HREF=”http://www.gerbergear.com/index.php/product/id/365#image/496″ eFECT/A, below, is on the market now. And while both objects are bristling with implements, one thing that’s noticeably absent: A blindfold./p
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Miami-based artist duo FriendsWithYou travelled north to Toronto recently, to take part in the Wish Come True Festival. They created an inflatable town in the centre of the city, plus much more.
FriendsWithYou are artists Samuel Borkson and Arturao Sandoval III. They have worked together since 2002, and say that they want to spread a “postive message of Magic, Luck and Friendship with their art”. They certainly appear to have brought a lot of joy to Toronto, judging by the pics they have sent us.
The Wish Come True Festival took place from June 10-20. FriendsWithYou were commissioned by the Luminato Festival of the Arts to create work for the festival, and responded with a number of inflatable installations, a pop-up shop, gallery show and an animation.
At the centre of their work was The Rainbow King, above, an ambassador for the festival. You an see him making his way around town in the YouTube film above.
The Rainbow City, a large installation of giant totems, magical mushrooms, oversized bouncy houses, and inflatable characters all appeared in downtown Toronto, on the site of the city’s presitigious parliament building in Queen’s Park. Visitors were invited to play with all the sculptures.
Sculptures were also displayed in two large-scale commercial spaces in the city. Starburst, shown first above, was displayed at the Bay Adelaide Centre. “Starburst is the captured moment of an exploding star,” say FriendsWithYou. “In its grand scale it is kinetic even without motion. He is constantly exploding and being reborn for you to witness.” The Secret Garden, above, was displayed in the Wintergarden lobby.
In addition, FriendsWithYou showed a solo exhibition of paintings at Narwhal Art Projects and also set up a pop-up shop at Magic Pony in the city, selling prints and art products. Two of the prints are shown above. These can also be brought online on the artists’ website, here. We defy you not to feel cheerful looking at their work.
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pYears ago when I was a car nut, most of the car magazines I pored over agreed that the Germans made the best suspension systems. The reasoning was that cars designed in Germany, specifically for German use, had to contend with the no-speed-limit Autobanh–where rock-solid steadiness is important–as well as the centuries-old cobblestone streets of many villages, where the suspension had to provide enough cushioning to avoid a teeth-rattling ride. The Germans, it was said, had best managed to strike a balance between the need to accommodate these two extremes./p
pAn article I read in the American magazine ICar and Driver/I put forth a fascinating hypothesis about Japanese suspensions. The author suggested they were more comfortable for Asian people, as opposed to (typically larger) Americans, and theorized that this was because the up-and-down motions of suspensions in Japan were tuned for people of average Japanese height–that is to say, a 5’9″ Japanese man, while walking, was used to his head traveling up and down at a particular rate according to his size-determined stride; and that an American man of 6’2″ had a different head-bouncing gait, one that a Japanese suspension did not feel quite right for./p
pI never saw anything like scientific proof of either of these points, but it always stuck with me that situations specific to a particular nation could influence their product designs in surprising ways./p
pSo it was with great interest that I read the obituary of Charles S. King, the designer of the original Range Rover, which mentioned the Rover’s specific, culture-based function. I never paid much attention to what I considered trucks, being interested more in performance cars; to me a Range Rover was something that hip hop stars or people who lived in SoHo drove. But A HREF=”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04king.html?_r=1src=busln” the ITimes/I piece on King/A points out that it was designed in the 1960s for a very specific, and very British, purpose:/p
blockquoteEquipped with a powerful V-8 engine, huge tires and coil spring suspension…the Range Rover was made to leave London on a Friday night for a 100-mile-an-hour sprint to a country estate, and rev up Saturday morning for a pheasant hunt across the rocky English countryside.
p[In] the United States…it became prized less for its superior performance than for its exclusivity. To a generation of rappers, professional athletes and striving suburbanites, the Range Rover became the ultimate four-wheeled status symbol, which Mr. King regretted./p
p”Sadly, the 4×4 has become an acceptable alternative to Mercedes or BMW for the pompous, self-important driver,” Mr. King told The Daily Mail in 2004. “To use them for the school run, or even in cities or towns at all, is completely stupid.”/blockquotebr /
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