"It's particularly tense in Paris. They are in between elections and the reaction is expected to be quite strong. The police discovered the piece 30 minutes after it was completed and we don't expect it to stay up long."(via Wooster Collective)
"As she told in phone interview: “My neighbors tried to protest, even to ruin this artwork but they couldn’t really do much - that’s a painted concrete actually” English Russia: Crazy Apartment Hall
"Die starke Ähnlichkeit zum Lego-System wurde gezielt forciert. Jedoch wurden auch viele eigene Steine entwickelt [...] Durch einen Rechtsstreit mit LEGO kam es Mitte der 1980er Jahre zu einem Wechsel der Noppen und Unterseiten, so dass diese nicht mehr mit LEGO kompatibel waren."Eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Baukästen und ein paar Bauanleitungen gibts im PEBE-Archiv. Und was das Vorurteil angeht, im Westen wäre "fleißig Star Wars Zeug gelegot" worden: Als ich in der ersten Hälfte der 80er aufgehört habe, gings gerade erst richtig mit Lego-Weltraum los. Und was hätte ich damals für ein Lego-Raketenfahrzeug gegeben ...
"Like Star Trek’s universal translator, the Babel fish is a simple plot device used to avoid the obvious obstacle of an interstellar language barrier. But like all good science fiction, the story and the characters here exist as vehicles for larger ideas. And with the Babel fish Douglas Adams, a self-described radical atheist, dismisses both Intelligent Design and the circular logic of religious extremism in one fell swoop..." The Galaxy’s a fun place. You’ll need to have this fish in your ear.
"North Korea's state-run (and only) news agency, sporadically releases photos of reclusive 69-year-old leader Kim Jong-il as he makes "on-the-spot" guidance visits. Kim Jong-il, continuing a practice begun by his father, Kim Il-sung, makes these visits to factories and facilities throughout the country, purportedly to offer his personal guidance. Followed by army officers, security personnel and plant managers - most carrying pencils and notepads to record the guidance of "Dear Leader" - he examines, listens, gives a talk, poses, then moves on, entourage in tow." The Big Picture: On the Spot with Kim Jong-il (31 Fotos)
"I [...] documented how the hospitals functioned as self-contained cities, where almost everything of necessity was produced on site: food, water, power, and even clothing and shoes [...] Few Americans [...] realize these institutions were once monuments of civic pride, built with noble intentions by leading architects and physicians, who envisioned the asylums as places of refuge, therapy, and healing [...] With the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these massive buildings neglected and abandoned."Einen Teil der zwischen 2002 bis 2008 entstandenen Fotos – 31 Stück – sind auf seiner Webseite zu sehen: Christopher Payne: Asylum. Das Gesamtwerk ist als Buch unter dem Titel "Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals" erschienen [Amazon-Link].
"I was concerned a little bit with the thought of making cheese out of mother’s milk. I wondered if it was ethnical - since I haven’t seen it on any restaurant menu yet. Conclusion – my spouse agreed -- our baby has plenty back-up mother’s milk in the freezer so whoever wants to try it is welcome to try it as long as supply lasts"Einen ausführlichen Bericht samt Rezept serviert Daniel Angerer in seinem Blog. Übrigens soll der Käse – serviert mit einem Riesling – ganz okay schmecken.
"Each of us was the grand prize in an ultimate reality competition, the amazing race a sperm makes on the road to fertilization. Millions of sperm compete while overcoming armies of antibodies, treacherous terrain and impossible odds to reach their single-minded goal. To illustrate the full weight of the challenge, Sizing Up Sperm uses real people to represent 250 million sperm on their marathon quest to be first to reach a single egg." National Geographic: The Great Sperm RaceFotos gibts zum Durchklicken auf der Seite der Sendung oder gesammelt bei Dark Roasted Blend.
2010 Skyscraper-Competition Special Mention: Water-Scraper (via POPSCI)
Alex Meade: Portfolio und Flickrstream (wo man ihr u.a. bei der Arbeit zuschauen kann)(via überall)
