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Stefano Mirtis

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This is a very nice news. Francesco Librizzi andMatilde Cassani have been appointed to make theBahrain pavilion at next Venice Biennale ofArchitecture.

I was explained the overall concept of the pavilionand what they have in mind. It will be a fantasticone, see you in Venice on the 27th of August

Here some more about Francesco Librizzi: http://www.francescolibrizzi.com/

And here some more about Matilde Cassani: http://www.matildecassani.com/index/index...

And here a link to th e Bahrain pav ilion (curated byNoura Al Sayeh), Biennale 2010 (winner of theGolden Lion): http://www.designboom.com/.../bahrain-wins-golden-lion...

Librizzi & Cassani TakesBahrain to Venice Biennale
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Melbourne, Australia

On Notebooks

Fantastic collection of special notebooks of specialpeople: http://www.flavorwire.com/.../a-peek-inside-the-notebooks

Here above, Nick Caves handwritten dictionary ofwords, 1984. Nick Cave Collection, the ArtsCentre, Melbourne.
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Kingston, United Kingdom

Google Image. The (Visual)Dictionary

UK based artists Felix Heyes and Ben West havedeveloped a printed and bound artwork entitled'Google'. The massive book contains 21,000 wordsfound in an average English dictionary representedas the first image displayed upon filing a Googleimage search for each word.

Keep reading the full story at: http://www.de signboom.com/.../google-the-first -google

Thanks to Legrenzi Susanna for the link.
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Polignano a Mare

A Museum on Pino Pascali

On the first of June, a museum dedicated to PinoPascali (but with a much broader scope) will openin Polignano a Mare.

More at: http://www.museopinopascali.it

Here a link to a folder with some of his works I likethe most: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Image above: Pino Pascali on his 32 mq. di marecirca (Apx. 32 sq meters of sea), 1967.
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We wanted flying cars,instead we got 140characters.

A very nice essay by Peter Thiel on the New Yorkeron failure of technological imagination: http://www.newyorker.com/.../11/28/111128fa_fact_packer

THanx to @timoreilly (via Twitter)

Image above: Luc Besson, The Fifth Element,1997.

If you are curious about the sci-fi concept for "carof the fture", here is your link: http://www.au tomopedia.org/.../15-c lassic-science.../
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Finale Emilia

Earthquake in EmiliaRomagna

Clock of Sant'Agostino steeple.

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Modena

Aldo Rossi, San CataldoCemetery

More images of this timeless work by Aldo Rossi at:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Perhaps the observation of things has remainedmy most important formal education; forobservation later becomes transformed intomemory. Now I seem to see all the things I haveobserved arranged like tools in a neat row; theyare aligned as in a botanical chart, or a catalogue,or a dictionary. But this catalogue, lyingsomewhere between imagination and memory, isnot neutral; it always reappears in several objectsand constitutes their deformation and, in someways, their evolution.

(Aldo Rossi)
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Mahavir Enclave

Museum of Toilets

What a great idea (thanks to Gioia Guerzoni forthe link). A special museum for toilets. Foundedby Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak: http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org

The Museum has been established with thefollowing objectives:

To educate students about the historical trends inthe development of toilets;

To provide information to researchers about thedesign, materials, and technologies adopted in thepast and those in use i n the cont emporary world;

To help policy makers to understan d the effortsmade by predecessors in this field throughout theworld;
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Bologna

Marino Formenti / Nowhere

Nowhere is a non-place in the city center. For

twelve days the pianist Marino Formenti sits at thepiano, plays, lives, breathes, eats, sleeps in thesame space, contemporaneously and mercilesslypublic and private. The divisions between stageand life are blurred, between day and night, and

they cancel out the conventions of time,programme and place. Formenti

To help the manufacturers of toilet equipment andaccessories in improving their products byfunctioning as a technology storehouse; and

To help sanitation experts learn from the past andsolve problems in the sanitation sector.

---Join sanitation crusade.
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experiments with his own limits and horizons. Thedays themselves become music. People are invitedto stop, to come and go, to go back and listenagain to experience the music in a differentdimension. Nowhere provides listening modes toenable extremely comfortable extended listening:stretched out is the best way. Unlike the usual'abnormal' way of listening to live music, here it isnot a case of watching the performer - who aspiresto disappear along with the audience -.(MortonFeldman: "my ideal audience is the dead one").Nowhere is a space that can only accommodatemusic dedicated to disappearance, to nothingness.For Bologna, Formenti thought of a chapter ofNowhere dedicated to John Cage, and entitled Inth e cage. The programm e includes as a centralmasterpiece ASLSP (As Slow As Possible), theex tended p iece of his recent 'mature' work andother pro liferations.

More at: http://www.liveartsweek.it/eng/marino-formenti--2

Here the link to Marino Formenti website: http://www.marinoformenti.com/

Here the link to a videoclip of his performance (inGraz, same place of the above image): http://vimeo.com/15357367

Thanks to Gaspare Caliri for the link.
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Polaroid

The Impossible Project

In October 2008 The Impossible Project saved thelast Polaroid production plant for integral instantfilm in En schede (N L) and started to invent andproduce totally new instant film materials fortraditional Polaroid cameras. In 2010 Impossiblesaved analog instant photography from extinctionby releas ing various, brand new and uniq ue instantfilms.

Keep reading about this fantastic story at: http://www.the-impossible-project.com/about

More at: http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

And here, some more: http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Thanx to Marcia Caines for the links...
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Turin

Sachlichkeit

Very interesting reprint from Domus magazine,1935: The Olivetti shop in Turin by XantiSchawinsky,

They wrote: "...The shop's style is that of theSachlichkeit, the highest concept of pure form, towhich its creator has managed to give a vividsense of "magic reality" like a Breuer or aLissitzky.

The mechanisms devised to turn this shop into aperfect "selling machine" need no comment, soappropriate and in keeping with a clearpsychological intuition do they seem to us. We arehappy to bring this shop to our readers' attentionso that people with good taste may have furtherproof of the amazing potential of the new tasteand those operating in the sector an example ofthe dignity that must go into such a work, whichrequires the style of the artist and
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Milan

Interior with Stairs

I love the architects ( Francesco Librizzi andMatilde Cassani ) and I love their work. This is my

report on this special interior th ey did few yearsag o in Milan: http://www.d omusweb.it/en/design /interior-with-stai rs/

More images at: http://www.fa cebook.

com/media/set/...

not the common practice of the everydayde corator..."

Keep reading the article at: http://www.domusweb.i t/.../the-olivetti-s hop-in-turin/

(also the images a re quite speci al!)
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Norway

Terrifying Playgrounds

Two Norwegian psychologists think that modernplaygrounds are for wimps. Instead of shortclimbing walls, there should be towering monkeybars. Instead of plastic crawl tubes, there shouldbe tall, steep slides. And balance beams. And ropeswings.

Read more on this interesting approach to theth eme at: http://ww w.nytimes.com/.../maga.../innovatio ns-issue.html

A very nice article where you will find 32innovations that will change your (our) tomorrow

(via @fmanjoo and @sternbergh, Twitter)
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Cairo, Egypt

Stylish

"I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-marketfashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toedesigner has become a bit passe. It's a new era in

fashion - there are no rules. It's all about theindividual and personal style, wearing high-end,low-end, classic labels, and up-and-comingdesigners all together."

(Alexander McQueen)

In the picture above, Hosni Mubarak sentenced tolife in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killingof protesters during the uprising that ousted him,

offering his opponents a measure of justice.

And here is his blog: http://jerrysmap.blogspot.it/
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Oiso-machi Naka-gun, Japan

A Nice One

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

(Haruki Murakami)

Here the link to see the original work by GrantSnider on the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/.../01/books/review/03snider.html

Thanks to @maximolly (via Twitter).
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California

Transition

Peter Frank writes about Lauren Marsolier work:

"Lauren Marsolier photographs (or more precisely,makes photographs of) w hat seem to be impossiblylucid places, clean, brilliantly lit, devoid of peoplebu t clearly man made, full of atmosphere and yetas arid spiritually as they are physica lly."

Keep reading the interesting (sho rt) essay at: http://www.laurenmarsolier.com/index. php?/ongoing/projects/

More of her images at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here is the link to Laure Marsolier website: http://www.laurenmarsolier.com/ + thanks to GioiaGuerzoni for the link.
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Buckingham Palace

God Save the Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qa9VjuzTJs(happy Diamond jubilee)

God save the queenThe fascist regimeThey made you a moronPotential H-bomb

God save the queenShe ain't no human beingThere is no futureIn England's dreaming

Don't be told what you wantDon't be told what you needThere's no future, no future,No future for you

God save the queenWe mean it man
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We love our queenGod saves

God save the queen'Cause tourists are moneyAnd our figureheadIs not what she seems

Oh God save historyGod save your mad paradeOh Lord God have mercyAll crimes are paid

When there's no futureHow can there be sinWe're the flowers in the dustbinWe're the poison in your human machineWe're the future, your future

God save the queenWe mean it manWe love our queenGod saves

God save the queenWe mean it manAnd there is no futureIn England's dreaming

No future, no future,No future for youNo future, no future,No future for me

No future, no future,No future for youNo future, no futureFor you

Art work of the record cover by Jamie Reid, 1977.

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