"Promotional knit beer sweaters from the 70s and 80s. All of these sweaters were unearthed by me, rescued from moldy basements, plucked from dingy backwaters and ripped from the backs of greasy shitleopards. Unfortunately none of these trophies are for sale."(via Dangerous Minds)
"Between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s, major architects of the day were invited to design affordable and efficient model homes, and some thirty of them were built, mostly in Southern California. The sponsor of this ambitious project was the Californian magazine Arts & Architecture, which engaged an architectural photographer named Julius Shulman to dutifully record them ... Fittingly for Shulman, one of the first architectural photographers to include the inhabitants of homes in the pictures, his most famous image was the 1960 view of Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 22 (also the Stahl House), which showed two well-dressed women conversing casually inside ... In the photo, the cantilevered living room appears to float diaphanously above Los Angeles ... Yet this view was created as meticulously as the house itself. Wide-angle photography belied the actual smallness of the house; furniture and furnishings were staged, and as were the women. Although they were not models (but rather girlfriends of architectural students), they were asked to sit still in the dark as Shulman exposed the film seven minutes to capture lights from LA streets. Then, lights inside were quickly switched on to capture two posing women ..."
"We have to inform you that the Voina Group has nothing to do with the action engaging young girls kissing female police officers ... We make massive, monumental art. Besides, it’s obvious that the Voina Group would never kiss policemen. We prefer to fuck them with our 65-meter-Dick!"
"Michael Hansmeyer uses algorithms invented by Pixar and painstaking handicraft to generate columns with dizzying detail. When people mistake photographs of your physical prototypes for computer renderings, you know you've achieved something amazing. That's exactly what happened when Michael Hansmeyer showed off his "computational architecture" column, created by iterating a subdivision algorithm over and over again and then fabricating it out of cardboard. Hansmeyer's column stands nine feet tall, weighs about 2000 pounds, and is made out of 2700 1mm-thin slices of cardboard stacked on top of wooden cores. It contains somewhere between 8 and 16 million polygonal faces..." The World's Most Complex Architecture: Cardboard Columns With 16 Million Facets(via Nerdcore)
"The city is filled with an invisible landscape of networks that is becoming an interwoven part of daily life. WiFi networks and increasingly sophisticated mobile phones are starting to influence how urban environments are experienced and understood. We want to explore and reveal what the immaterial terrain of WiFi looks like and how it relates to the city."Hier das Flickr-Album mit Fotos vom Making of und dem Stadtrundgang. Video nach dem Klick.
"Sie fressen gern Mensch und marodieren ruhelos in Horden über unsere Erde. Die Geburtsstunde des modernen Zombies war im Jahre 1968. Vor dem Hintergrund des Vietnamkrieges hat Regisseur George A. Romero mit "Night of the Living Dead" das epochemachende Meisterwerk des Genres geschaffen. Seither überfallen Zombies in schöner Regelmäßigkeit vor allem amerikanische Groß- und Kleinstädte und stellen sich damit immer wieder als Symbol der Krise, des Krieges, der Paranoia und überhaupt als offene Metaphernspielwiese zur Verfügung. Doch auch Zombies werden müde, das kannibalische Popkulturphänomen scheint sich gerade totzulaufen. Eine Reise durch Zombieland. "Wer Zombie-Filme nicht nur schaut, sondern das Genre auch etwas reflektiert, erfährt zwar nicht unbedingt was Neues, mir hat der Podcast aber trotzdem gefallen. Und Marcus Stiglegger, Filmwissenschaftler und Autor von "Terrorkino - Angst/Lust und Körperhorror" analysiert meiner Meinung ziemlich treffend, warum die Zombie-Sache ihren Zenith überschritten hat.
"... the project revolves around a competition ... based on the theme of ‘Inspired Ingenuity’; a reference to the spirit of the people of Havana, who pride themselves on their ability to create what they need from what they have. The competition is taking place over the first six months of 2011, challenging artists, musicians and other creative talents to takes the everyday and turn it into something special. A winner will be picked each month, and the final winner will win a trip to Cuba."(via technabob)
"Mickey Mouse was quite a sensation at the end of the 20s and the beginning of the 1930s, so it is no surprise that someone decided that Mickey would work well in a comic strip. Walt Disney was generally too busy to be involved in the actual production of the comic strip, but he did make sure to contribute one significant idea to strip writer/artist Floyd Gottfredson – the first story arc should include Mickey trying varying ways of killing himself, which would all end comically!!!"(via Super Punch)
