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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

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Italy

One consequence of the economic downturn that

has gone largely unreported is the struggle Italian

men now face to woo women with the care and

attention - and the financial outlay - they were

once renowned for.

In the queue at the ice cream parlour the two

businessmen jiggled anxiously and salivated like

school boys as they stared at the myriad flavours

of coloured gelato.

When it came to their turn though they looked a

little deflated, even a little ashamed as they

asked the impatient waitress in small voices for a

"gelato piccolo".

"Yeah, everything's downsized here," said the

taller man ruefully, looking down at his modest

single scoop of chocolate ice cream.

"No money for anything now - not even for

women," he added as he licked his spoon

thoughtfully. "The day of Casanova is over. One

Italy's Casanovas hit where

it hurts.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Italy/113396132004585?ref=stream

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Singapore, Singapore

The Comfort Zone

Thanks to Anita Silvafor sharing this link.

https://destination-play.squarespace.com/

It is a lovely project, very special, very nice, very

woman only - and that's already too expensive."

His colleague scraped his tub cleansearching out

the last drops of sorbet. He flashed me a winning

smile.

"The good time's finished," he announced. And

then, shrugging his shoulders, he whispered

confidentially, "I'm an ex-Casanova."

Keep reading the interesting report from BBC at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24065878

Thanks to Rachaporn Choochueyfor the link.

Image above, Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita
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National Gallery

-from: How to recognize the artists of paintings-

A lovely guide, courtesy of Paula Rial:

http://imgur.com/a/XC1LU?gallery

How to recognize the artists of paintings

Image above: Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini

Wedding, 1434.

If everyone - including the

women - looks like Putin,

then it's van Eyck.

everything.

Here some more about ms Ella Zheng (who

masterminds the whole game/play): http://www.

behance.net/ellaisweird

Here their group on Facebook (this as well, very

nice): http://www.facebook.com/groups/THE.

DESIGN.FOLDER/
https://www.facebook.com/paula.rialhttp://imgur.com/a/XC1LU?galleryhttps://www.facebook.com/paula.rialhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/THE.DESIGN.FOLDER/https://www.facebook.com/groups/THE.DESIGN.FOLDER/http://www.behance.net/ellaisweirdhttp://www.behance.net/ellaisweirdhttp://imgur.com/a/XC1LU?galleryhttps://www.facebook.com/paula.rialhttps://www.facebook.com/thenationalgallery?ref=stream

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Last Call!

-LAST CALL!

Mancano solo 3 giorni per fare richiesta dei

voucher dell'Alta Formazione in Rete

http://www.altaformazioneinrete.it/

www.relationaldesign.org

HURRY UP!-

Per maggiori informazioni > Lucia Giuliano+

Gianni Romano
https://www.facebook.com/gianni.romanohttps://www.facebook.com/gianni.romanohttps://www.facebook.com/lucia.giuliano.35http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.relationaldesign.org%2F&h=vAQGrDQao&enc=AZNsBnqGeIyeUtEHpO0gpbpBx_74IOloXyoWnU9D2jzs2U9UjHrySUDyR0VUhlwNX7mtsHNs74mYE_R38oC2veYHg2W5iV8L1DdMkJwmTLQBqDvnIomN3VPb2PkkWMS8xSHSBuF95E7GuCgBtWwH_tCF&s=1http://www.altaformazioneinrete.it/

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Kawasaki-shi, Japan

When Hong Kong's Kowloon Walled City was razed

in the late 1980s, it was an infamously

untouchable haven for drugs, crime, and

prostitutiona place few locals would dare tovisit. Now, a theme park outside of Tokyo is selling

tickets to explore a painstakingly modeled replica

of the Walled Cityright down to its trash, which

was imported from Hong Kong.

Keep reading at: http://gizmodo.com/hong-kongs-

infamous-walled-city

Watch an (impressive) video from the original

Walled City: http://io9.com/.../incredible-claustrophobic-footage-from...

Hong Kong's Infamous

Kowloon Walled City Rebuilt

as Amusement Park
http://io9.com/5713565/incredible-claustrophobic-footage-from-inside-the-kowloon-walled-cityhttp://io9.com/5713565/incredible-claustrophobic-footage-from-inside-the-kowloon-walled-cityhttp://gizmodo.com/hong-kongs-infamous-walled-city-recreated-as-a-japanes-1325344791http://gizmodo.com/hong-kongs-infamous-walled-city-recreated-as-a-japanes-1325344791https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kawasaki-shi-Kanagawa-Japan/100563866688613?ref=stream

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Flagstaff, AZ, United States

James Turrell's Roden Crater

Eh

http://rodencrater.com/

At Roden Crater I was interested in taking the

cultural artifice of art out into the natural

surround. I did not want the work to be a mark

upon nature, but I wanted the work to be enfolded

in nature in such a way that light from the sun,

moon and stars empowered the spaces I wanted

an area where you had a sense of standing on the

planet. I wanted an area of exposed geology like

the Grand Canyon or the Painted Desert, where

you could feel geologic time. Then in this stage set

of geologic time, I wanted to make spaces that

engaged celestial events in light so that the spaces

performed a music of the spheres in light. The

sequence of spaces, leading up to the final large

space at the top of the crater, magnifies events.

The work I do intensifies the experience of light by

isolating it and occluding light from events not

looked at. I have selected different portions of the

sky and a limited number of events for each of the

spaces. This is a reason for the large number of

spaces.

(James Turrell)
http://rodencrater.com/http://rodencrater.com/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Flagstaff-Arizona/107818412580173?ref=stream

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Faraday

Tonight, special event in Milan.

Francesco Jodice organize a special drive-in movie

theatre.

A real " drive in" set up in the former space Alfa

shed, starting at 21.

For this fourth edition of Tender To Young Art ,

Francesco Jodice has produced a real Drive In,

because the public will be invited to see from

their own cars the film made for the event : "I like

working on a piece of Milan, imagine the impulses

that these suburbs expressed in the 70's . The idea

of drive-in was created as homage to an industrial

space , linked to the production of the cars , so

the possibility of bringing cars within these spaces

at a distance of forty years seems to me an

interesting operation. The

La notte del drive in:

Milano spara

Here a folder with some images: http://www.

facebook.com/media/set/...
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Parco delle Risaie

Risaie Survival Signal Mirror

From the 23rd to the 27th of September, a very

nice workshop on mirrors, rice paddies and

communication systems.

reference to the movie" the night of the drive-in :

Milan shoots " it's kind poliziottesco of the

Seventies is not only a tribute to the genre

cinema, so alive in that decade, but also a way to

remember the social tensions that were also an

expression of a company vital, intense, never

stands still and animated by contrasts and

extremes.

keep reading at: http://www.francescojodice.

com/news.php

In Italian: http://www.undo.

net/it/mostra/165033

.o
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Antarctica

Antarctica / Stellar Axis

In December 2006, artist Lita Albuquerque, whose

work questions our place in the enormity of

infinite space and eternal time, led an expedition

to one of the purest and uninhabited places on

Earth.

The expedition journeyed to the farthest reaches

of Antarctica, across the Ross Ice Shelf (800 miles

north of the South Pole) to create Stellar Axis:

Antarctica, the first installment of Albuqurque's

global project Stellar Axis (which also includes 90

Degrees North at the North Pole).

The installation consisted of 99 blue spherical

The whole thing is led by Massimo Cutini and

ToMake at Cascina San Marco in Milan.

More (in Italian) at: http://www.culturame.

it/risaie-survival-signal-mirror.../

Image above: Robert Smithson, Incidents of Mirror-

Travel in the Yucatan, 1969.
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San Pedro, California

Lawnchair Larry

Thanks to Anna Barbara, for reminding me about

Lawnchair Larry.

Who is Lawnchair Larry?

structures arranged on the polar ice in exact,

calculated alignment with 99 stars. Each sphere's

diameter correlated to the relative brightness of

its unique, corresponding star. The resulting work

created a large-scale stellar map on the Antarctic

ice.

As the planet rotated on its axis and continued to

orbit around the sun, the relationship between the

spheres and stars began to shift out of alignment,

creating an imperceptible spiral of motion at the

South Pole.

Keep reading at: http://www.domusweb.it/...

/lita-albuquerque-and-jean-de...
http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2011/12/05/lita-albuquerque-and-jean-de-pomereu-stellar-axis.htmlhttp://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2011/12/05/lita-albuquerque-and-jean-de-pomereu-stellar-axis.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/anna.barbara.56829https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Pedro-California/113092482100979?ref=stream

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Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair

Larry" or the "Lawn Chair Pilot", (1949 /1993) was

an American truck driver who took flight on July 2,

1982, in a homemade airship.

The "flying machine" consisted of an ordinary patio

chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons

attached to it.

Walters rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet

(4,600 m) and floated from his point of origin in

San Pedro, California, into controlled airspace

near Los Angeles International Airport. His flight

was widely reported.

Keep reading at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Larry_Walters

Here a whole website dedicated to him: http:

//www.markbarry.com/lawnchairman.html

China

The Peculiar History of

Foot Binding in China
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Yesterday she came in a delicate blue satin of a

more fashionable cut than I had ever seen; her

feet were unbound and in little clumping, square,

black-leather foreign shoes. She was evidently

very proud of them; they looked like shoes for a

very rough little American boy, and had steel taps

on the heels. They stuck out most oddly from her

exquisite brocaded skirt.

After we had exchanged polite remarks, and had

taken our first sip of tea, she was so evidently

conscious of her feet that I could not but comment

on her unusual footgear.

It is the very latest fashion, she replied with

great satisfaction. You know that, of course, in

the big cities like Peking and Shanghai, the really

fashionable girls do not bind their feet any more.

At the boarding-school they dont either; and so,

when I came home, I cried for three days, without

food, until for peace they unbound my feet so that

I might wear these beautiful American shoes. My

feet are still too small, but I stuff cotton in the

toes.

(Pearl Buck, The Good Earth)

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Keep reading at: http://www.theatlantic.com/...

/the-peculiar.../279718/
http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718/http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718/http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718/http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-peculiar-history-of-foot-binding-in-china/279718/

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Metropolitana Linea 2

>Minuti 2

Me Too (imparo a disegnare)Un giorno nella linea 2 della metropolitana di

milano, a imparare a disegnare.

Si inizia la giornata che non si sa disegnare, si

finisce che si capaci (programma

apparentemente semplice, in verit moltoambizioso).

>lunedi 7 ottobre 2013.

http://nykyinen.com/nykyinen-interviews-

stefano-mirti/M2, TAM TAMStefano Mirti Tam Tam
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London Underground

Very nice article from Brainpicker:

The London Underground is renowned around the

world for its iconic map, which has sprouted a

number of creative derivatives and parodies, andits formidable legacy of graphic design.

But most legendary and celebrated of all is its bar-

and-circle logo also known as the bulls-eye or

the roundel which celebrates its 150th birthdayin 2013 and which is comparable only to an

international icon like INY.

Keep reading at: http://www.brainpickings.org/...

/a-logo-for-london-david.../

Image above: drawing of the proportions for

Edward Johnston's roundel, ca. 1925.

Lessons from the Visual

History of the London

Underground Logo
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Torino

Nella Caffaratti

Yesterday in Torino, I met Nella Caffaratti.

She does all kind of beautiful and sepcial things

(well, actually, she always did).

Here above one image from her beautiful "la

bonne humeur" book: a complete story made out

of prints and nice hand drawings

http://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/...

/composizioni-con

More about Nella's things at: http:

//nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/
http://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/http://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/http://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/http://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/p/composizioni-con-timbri.htmlhttp://nellacaffaratti.blogspot.it/p/composizioni-con-timbri.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/nella.caffarattihttps://www.facebook.com/nella.caffarattihttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Torino/213534645341322?ref=stream

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Kon Tum, Vietnam

I've already reported on Vo Trong Nghia Architects

(they do very nice and special architecture, in

Vietnam).

Here a new building.

..the three banquet halls feature three different

natural materials; stone, bamboo, and wood.

Walls and columns of the Stone Hall, located on

the ground floor and capable of 800 guests,

Kontum Indochine Wedding

Hall
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kon-Tum-Vietnam/136085656469482?ref=stream

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are composed of Basalt stone slabs. These stone

slabs have different surfaces; pitch-faced,

polished or hammered, creating both dignified and

delicate spatial characteristics, which are well

suited to festive ceremonies.

Both the Bamboo Hall and Wooden Hall are

located on the second level, each having capacity

for 400 guests. The materials vary between the

two halls, giving different characteristics of each

space.

Keep reading at: http://www.archdaily.com/...

/kontum-indochine-wedding.../

More about their work: http://votrongnghia.com/

Washington, DC, United States

You have to love the US! In what other countryaround the globe can you become statistically

The American Economy Grew

by $560 Billion in a Blink
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-District-of-Columbia/110184922344060?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Washington-District-of-Columbia/110184922344060?ref=streamhttp://votrongnghia.com/http://www.archdaily.com/429222/kontum-indochine-wedding-hall-vo-trong-nghia-architects/http://www.archdaily.com/429222/kontum-indochine-wedding-hall-vo-trong-nghia-architects/

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richer by a whopping 1,750 US dollars in the blink

of an eye? This is what happened to me and

everyone else living here on Wednesday, 31 July,

when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced

its first Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimate for

2Q 2013.

The announcement was accompanied by the 14th

benchmark GDP revision since 1929, one of the

most profound in the way the US computes this

statistic. It added some USD 560bn to the 2012

GDP estimate, or 3.6% of the old GDP, the rough

equivalent of a state like New Jersey or a country

like Belgium or Norway.

The lions share of this upward revision is for

research and development expenditures of

businesses, government and nonprofit

organizations.

These expenses are newly recognized as fixed

investments. According to the revised National

Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) tables , this

post alone added roughly USD 270bn to private

investments and roughly another USD 90bn to

government investments (federal, state and local)

in 2012.

A second sizable revision stems from expenditures

by business for the creation of entertainment,

literary, and artistic originals, which are now also

considered as fixed investments and hence added

another USD 74bn in 2012.

Andy Warhol, who consistently labeled his ateliers

as factories, would be happy to know that his

famous painted dollar sign is now indeed also

contributing hard US dollars to the US GDP. And so

is every franchise in film, TV and literature. Or as

one economist stated, commenting on the revision

for the New York Times, Thats right, Seinfeld,

the ultimate show about nothing will now add

billions to GDP.

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Torino

La Vache / Cocco / Ondulino

I've spent some more time browsing Nella

Caffaratti's imaginary worlds.

http://cargocollective.com/nellacaffaratti

I really like the things she does.

Here for instance, a link to a great stop-motion

video she did some time ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEQz1Exh4v8

Keep reading at: http://www.ubs.com/.../how-

hemingway--darth-vader-and

And here another very interesting article on the

subject: http://www.nytimes.com/.../what-is-

seinfeld-worth.html

---

Thanks toGiannino Malossi for the links!
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Gallery S O

A very nice work by Carl Clerkin.

More of his stuff at: http://www.dezeen.com/...

/22/the-other-way-by-carl-clerkin/

Website: http://www.carlclerkin.co.uk/

Furniture for People

without Attics
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Gallery S O

Here the first preview (for the time being in

Italian only) of this book I wrote during thesummer.

Il mondo nuovo

Una guida tascabile

#design #socialmedia #alterazioni

Soon in the bookshops (and soon in its digital form

and soontranslated inEnglish). Thanks to Gianni

Romano& postmediabooks.

Here thelink: http://www.postmediabooks.

it/2013/106design/106design.htm

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Indice

1. Introduzione

2. Il mondo nuovo

3. The community is the message

Il Mondo Nuovo (aka,

The Brave New World)...
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4. Alcune avvertenze

5. Una bibliografia? Diciamo una playlist

6. Absolute Beginners / Holiday in Cambodia

7. Lambigua intimit fotografica di Instagram

8. Sullimportanza di Twitter

9. #tweetville(anche: @twt_ville)

10. Multiversi e piramidi rovesciate

11. Todos Caballeros!

12. In tenda o in camper?

13. Il Gran Tour, via Facebook. Detto anche, i

flneur digitali

14. Un postscriptum su Gran Touristas

15. Sulla socievolezza digitale

16. Un dialogo impossibile

17. Un progetto pirata e un corso (letteralmente)

in movimento

18. Vecchi media, nuovi media

19. Crowdfunding. Everybody knows

20. I paesaggi del limite

21. I fratelli Collyer, Ferdinand Cheval e Andr

Malraux

22. Grande la confusione sotto il cielo

23. Data di scadenza

24. Appendice: ...io sono la camminata di Tony

Manero
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/tweetville

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New York, NY, United States

You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and

you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz

Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink

Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of

money can get you a better Coke than the one the

bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are

the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor

knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows

it, and you know it.

(Andy Warhol)

Image above: Andy Warhol, Coca Cola Bottles,

1962.

You can be watching TV

and see Coca-Cola.
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