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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

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Stefanos facebook timeline 08/52 2013

Toronto, Canada

Tom Ngo's The Crucible

Above: The Crucible (2012) - "a drawing of a

'perfect community' in all its flaws".

Very nice article on Tom Ngo's recent work: http:

//www.dezeen.com/.../more-architectural-absurdities.../

"Architectural absurdity playfully transgresses

within the rules of building formation to create

valid alternative assemblages while scrutinisingregulation.

The resultant architecture redefines the rituals of

program and questions the notion of typology.

Unbound by strict conformity to logic, theliberated architect breathes new life into

architecture."

(Tom Ngo)

Thanks to Alessandro Mininnofor the link.
https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.mininnohttps://www.facebook.com/alessandro.mininnohttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/17/more-architectural-absurdities-by-tom-ngo/http://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/17/more-architectural-absurdities-by-tom-ngo/https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.mininnohttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/17/more-architectural-absurdities-by-tom-ngo/http://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/17/more-architectural-absurdities-by-tom-ngo/http://www.dezeen.com/2013/02/17/more-architectural-absurdities-by-tom-ngo/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toronto-Ontario/110941395597405?ref=stream

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Vilnius, Lithuania

Anonymous Press /

1. Anonymous Press () is a self-sufficient

publishing platform.

2. Every publication by is a byproduct of an

individual and a database, i.e. Google Image

Search.

3. Human author defines the topic, the content

and the form is generated from the most relevant

images found online.

4. Each publication can be added to a public

library.

5. Every item in the library is printed on-demand

and is available to everyone for a small fee

covering shipping and production costs.

6. Publications are sorted in a chronological order.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vilnius-Lithuania/101877916520606?ref=stream

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Milan

Stefi's Lowcase. Fairly Bold.

I fell into this typeface thinghy, and I can't get

out

Ko Sliggerslaunched the challenge, and I started

to work on very simple things. How to make atypeface while having dinner at the Chinese

restaurant, typeface while having breakfast at the

coffee bar. Next was to use my hands as a printing

set.

I am totally in love with it.

7. does not own and is not responsible for the

content generated by its users.

http://www.anonymous-press.com

Thanks to Antonio Scarponifor the link!
https://www.facebook.com/scarponiohttp://www.anonymous-press.com/https://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Milan-Italy/108581069173026?ref=stream

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Milan

James Irvine, 1958/2013

Disegno di un pavimento in cui i tuoi passi saranno

incerti (Ettore Sottsass, 1973)

: (

http://www.facebook.

com/groups/WHOAMItyperoom/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMItyperoom/https://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMItyperoom/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milan-Italy/108581069173026?ref=stream

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Turin

When I Was a Child...

I really like to invent worlds.

Like most of the Italian kids, I had a very special

fascination for Panini stickers, marbles, and caps.

I had my special collection of fancy caps, and I

would use them very oftento organize incredibly

complex sport's event (from football games to

cycling competitions).

Trying to start the "bike sharing" workshop: http:

//www.facebook.com/.../WHOAMIbi...

/doc/410774975674802/

Thanx toMarco Lampugnaniand Gaspare Caliri.

http://www.compagniadellebiglie.

it/giocociclismo.htm
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South Africa

Sociable Weaver Bird

No, Annarita, these arent haystacks stuck in a

phone pole.

Visit the Kalahari Desert in the south of Africa and

youre bound to run into a peculiar animal called

the Sociable Weaver Bird.

The birds are called social not just because they

live in organized colonies, but because they build

massive homes out of sticks, grass and cotton that

are home to several other kinds birds.

Keep reading at: http://www.thisiscolossal.

com/.../massive-bird-nests.../

Thanks to Filippo Romanofor the link!
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/massive-bird-nests-built-on-telephone-poles-in-southern-africa/https://www.facebook.com/annarita.papeschihttps://www.facebook.com/annarita.papeschihttps://www.facebook.com/filippo.romano.18http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/massive-bird-nests-built-on-telephone-poles-in-southern-africa/http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/massive-bird-nests-built-on-telephone-poles-in-southern-africa/https://www.facebook.com/annarita.papeschihttps://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Africa/113258395352692?ref=stream

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East London

Vitrine Objects

A collection of collections. Rachel Whiteread's

supersuper things

http://hammer.ucla.

edu/programs/detail/program_id/384

And here, some more:

http://artsy.net/artist/rachel-whiteread

Thanks to Giulia Fioristafor the suggestion.
https://www.facebook.com/giulia.fioristahttp://artsy.net/artist/rachel-whitereadhttp://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/384http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/384https://www.facebook.com/pages/East-London/142366155818107?ref=stream

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Berlin, Germany

The Constitute

Sorry for disappearing in the last two days, but I

was into the logistic organization for this very nice

project I am developing with Susannafor the next

Fuori Salone.

Special guests, The Constitute, from Berlin.

http://theconstitute.org

They will present for the first time ever, their

"teletransportation" project.

http://theconstitute.org/ready-to-fog/

Stay tuned and you'll getto know more...
https://www.facebook.com/legrenzi.susannahttp://theconstitute.org/ready-to-fog/http://theconstitute.org/https://www.facebook.com/legrenzi.susannahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Berlin-Germany/111175118906315?ref=stream

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Lambrate

Invisible Things

Having spent a couple of days working hard with

Legrenzi Susanna, I've seen some of the various

projects she is preparing for next Fuori Salone.

The previews related to this exhibition on

"invisibility" (she is curating it with Stefano Maffei

forLogotel) are really impressive.

Here one of thepieces you will see on show:

Thomas Thwaites, "Unlikely Objects: Products of a

Counterfactual History of Science" (http://www.

thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products...

/)

Last year, their's "Making Together" was really

impressive. This year it will be much more!
http://www.thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products-of-a-counterfactual-history-of-science/https://www.facebook.com/thomas.thwaites.14https://www.facebook.com/stefano.maffeihttps://www.facebook.com/legrenzi.susannahttp://www.thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products-of-a-counterfactual-history-of-science/http://www.thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products-of-a-counterfactual-history-of-science/http://www.thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products-of-a-counterfactual-history-of-science/https://www.facebook.com/thomas.thwaites.14https://www.facebook.com/stefano.maffeihttps://www.facebook.com/legrenzi.susannahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Lambrate-Lombardia-Italy/104718932900405?ref=stream

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Palermo

In the meanwhile, Pamelakeeps working on the

fantastic booklet series started a week ago at

Abadir.

These new experiments are really a superlike.

See the whole series at: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/...

Pamela's (Special) Notebook

Series
https://www.facebook.com/PamelaFerri.Organicaltimehttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4884292783263.2162487.1175925365&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4884292783263.2162487.1175925365&type=1https://www.facebook.com/PamelaFerri.Organicaltimehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Palermo-Italy/106439142725244?ref=stream

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Milan

Altar for an Unknown Religion
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Milan-Italy/108581069173026?ref=stream

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Should I stay or should I go?

Going around the city, there are several moments

when all sudden some places, or things, orwhatsoever become very special.

Like they were elements belonging to some

unknown religions or lost rituals (see post below).

Very nice feeling, indeed!

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Taiwan

My Present and Future Map

This is a fantastic image!

MsLingjing Yin's special map about her present &

future.

Very inspirational, thanxthanx!

(via Instagram)
https://www.facebook.com/lingjing.yinhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Taiwan/103765676329074?ref=stream

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Sprengel Museum Hannover

Schwarzes Notizbuch VI,

1921/1923

To start the weekend with Kurt Schwitters' black

notebooks, ain't bad

http://www.sprengel-museum.de/.../tagung-im-

sprengel

Thanx toGiulia Fioristafor the link.
https://www.facebook.com/giulia.fioristahttp://www.sprengel-museum.de/kuenstlervermittungen__veranstaltungen/tagungen_und_symposien/tagung-im-sprengel-museum-hannover-transgression-und-intermedialitaet-die-texte-von-kurt-schwitters.htm?bild_id=86109927http://www.sprengel-museum.de/kuenstlervermittungen__veranstaltungen/tagungen_und_symposien/tagung-im-sprengel-museum-hannover-transgression-und-intermedialitaet-die-texte-von-kurt-schwitters.htm?bild_id=86109927https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sprengel-Museum-Hannover/428840793797426?ref=stream

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Kronberg im Taunus

Julius Neubronner and

the Invention of Aerial

Photography

This is a very nice story. How Neubronner inventedaerial photography thanks to a special camera

attached to pigeons

http://www.juxtapost.com/...

/dr_julius_neubronner.../

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_photography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Neubronner

Thanks to Giulia Fioristafor the link!

More about Neubronner (in Italian) at: http:

//www.archiviocaltari.it/.../i-piccioni-fotografi...

/
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Parc del Gulliver

Gulliver's Park

This, I very like.

http://www.benandalice.com/.../gulliver-park-in-

valencia

http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.it/.../parque-

gulliver

More parks at:

http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-

playgrounds-2012-6...
http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-playgrounds-2012-6?op=1http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.it/2009/10/parque-gulliver-valencia-spain-1990.htmlhttp://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-playgrounds-2012-6?op=1http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-playgrounds-2012-6?op=1http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.it/2009/10/parque-gulliver-valencia-spain-1990.htmlhttp://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.it/2009/10/parque-gulliver-valencia-spain-1990.htmlhttp://www.benandalice.com/2008/04/gulliver-park-in-valencia-spain.htmlhttp://www.benandalice.com/2008/04/gulliver-park-in-valencia-spain.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Parc-del-Gulliver/176443599051932?ref=stream

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Royal College Of Art

The Unspeakableness

Superlike!

The Unspeakableness is an ongoing project by Pei-

Ying Lin

"The Unspeakableness" investigates the essence of

human emotions. Through experiments of

different languages, sounds, body languages, and

the subtle elements of emotions, as well as

comparing the untranslatable emotion expressions

in different languages with English-based

researches on human emotions as a stepping stone

to discover mysterious qualities of the

unspeakableness between human emotions and

communications.

Here the link: http://untranslatable.peiyinglin.

net/
http://untranslatable.peiyinglin.net/http://untranslatable.peiyinglin.net/http://untranslatable.peiyinglin.net/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Royal-College-Of-Art/158525830831637?ref=stream

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Turin

Dendratom

Today, lots of nice stuff coming from the

GranTouristas chitchat. This one is a fabolous

piece by Massimo Maria Cotti, sometimes in the

late 1960's / early 1970's

Here to see the original drawings in higher

resolution:

http://www.studiocotti.com/Riviste.php

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/.../qGiCV9...

/s1600/arbol06blog.jpg

Thanx toAdelaide Testafor the link...
https://www.facebook.com/adelaide.testahttps://www.facebook.com/adelaide.testahttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tpF2_7rzFMU/TFQsiacV6vI/AAAAAAAADyY/qGiCV90FE4o/s1600/arbol06blog.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tpF2_7rzFMU/TFQsiacV6vI/AAAAAAAADyY/qGiCV90FE4o/s1600/arbol06blog.jpghttp://www.studiocotti.com/Riviste.phphttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Turin-Italy/115351801811432?ref=stream

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United States

Waking Life

Very nice suggestion (I received some days ago).

To watch this movie by Richard Linklater (thanx to

miss Fioristafor the suggestion).

I watched it, very nice. Especially for the visual

technique:

The film used an animation technique based on

rotoscoping. Animators overlaid live action footage

(shot by Linklater) with animation that roughly

approximates the images actually filmed. This

technique is similar in some respects to the

rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi.

Rotoscopingitself, however, was not Bakshi's

invention, but that of experimental silent film

maker Max Fleischer, who patented the process in

1917. A variety of artists were employed, so the

feel of the movie continually changes, and gets

stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal,

shifting dreamscape.
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The animators used inexpensive "off-the-shelf"

Apple Macintosh computers. The film was mostly

produced using Rotoshop, a custom-made

rotoscoping program that creates blends between

keyframe vector shapes (the name is a play on

popular bitmap graphics editing software

Photoshop, which also makes use of virtual

"layers"), and created specifically for the

production by Bob Sabiston. Linklater would again

use this animation method for his 2006 film A

Scanner Darkly.

;o

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Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.

com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o

Link to Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Waking_Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Lifehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o

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