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January 23, 2010
Antonio Vieira, 17th Century Brazilian Futurist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Vieira
….the reform of the Inquisition also occupied his attention. To silence him his enemies then denounced him to that tribunal, and he was cited to appear before the Holy Office at Coimbra to answer points smacking of heresy in his sermons, conversations and writings.
He had believed in the prophecies of a 16th-century shoemaker poet, Bandarra, (((no I am not making this up, it's in Wikipedia, read it yourself))) dealing with the coming of a ruler who ...
It's been a great week for Priyanka Chopra
*Some might say the gorgeous Bollywood diva is laying it on just a tad thick here.
*Not me, though! Heck no! Happy to see her happy!!! Yaaaaay!
@priyankachopra
. I think I'll also treat myself to the spa!! Get my nails done.. Mmmm.. Pamper myself.. What say? about 2 hours ago
I'm walking on clouds!! Gonna treat myself., cheesy tacos!!! Yum!!!! about 3 hours ago from Twitterrific
RT: @filmfare [PICS:] Behind the scenes at the Priyanka Chopra photoshoot! http://bit.ly/5ruwVi (Pics by...
Anthropophagite Manifesto, 1928
via @cibellecibelle
anthropophagite manifesto by oswald de andrade, 1928 http://bit.ly/8pheWv
anthropophagite manifesto
by oswald de andrade
may 1928
Only anthropophagy unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.
The world's only law. The masked expression of all individualisms, of all collectivisms. Of all religions. Of all peace treaties.
Tupy, or not tupy that is the question.(1)
Against all catechisms. And against the mother of the Gracchi.
The only things that interest me are those...
January 21, 2010
Augmented Reality: Domestic RoboCop
*Hey, good one, kid.
"The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.
"A film produced for my final year Masters in Architecture, part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality."
*...
Well, there go the Boomers, one by one
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704561004575012964067490650.html
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"Those who were 23½ on Feb. 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," will be turning 70 this year. That places them in the right demographic for Classic Residence by Hyatt at Lakeside Village, the facility that shared Nostalgic America's cover last month with the Beatles.
"Beatles photos, along with images of Wilt Chamberlain, Elvis Presley, Johnny Carson and others, are also used in a...
The latest from Jonathan Keats
*His first conceptual-art effort of the new decade, I presume.
For Immediate Release
Contact: jonathon_keats@yahoo.com
FIRST CINEMA FOR HOUSE PLANTS OPENING IN NEW YORK CITY
Chelsea Gallery to Screen Foreign Travel Documentaries for Audience of Local Palms and Ficus Trees
January 22, 2010 - Uprooting 450 million years of botanical history, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats announced this week the first opportunity for plants to see distant parts of the planet vicariously — by going to the...
Hewlett-Packard Home Fab Vaporware
*The semi-cheap home fab is a perennial rumor in consumer tech, but you never know; this one could be real. Hewlett Packard doesn't kid around all that much about their printers.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/hp-3d-printers/
"Printers equipped for 3-D are poised to go mainstream, now that Hewlett-Packard plans to start selling them. The company's inkjet and laser printers are staples in offices and homes.
"The devices, which can crank out three-dimensional plastic models through a...
The Catwalk Dreams of Brazilian Faveladas
*I don't come across many Favela Chic articles that are baldly and literally about chic in the favelas. That may be changing.
http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/167-december-2004/8904.html
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"Rocinha—which means "little field" in Portuguese—sprawls along the northeastern fringe of São Conrado, a chic neighborhood of modern high-rises and million-dollar mansions.
"The favela swells with over a hundred thousand inhabitants and boasts the moniker "the city within the city."
"Like...
January 20, 2010
Tube forms that are impossible with conventional benders.
*Man, lookah that thing go. A "CNC tube bender." It's bending and excreting steel tubes as if they were… Well, let's just watch, shall we?
*Getting a very Neri Oxman feeling here somehow. Okay: it's 2025, and you're living in a rippling steel-pole yurt covered with tensile skin.
*And it full of an internet-of-Chinese-things.
*And everybody in it is wearing Alexander McQueen, too. Boy, *that* would do it fer sure.
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