When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]
How to use infographics to tell a story
Soviet era propaganda done with infographics. Thanks Simone de Iacobis, Via: Ripetungi Rise in the national material welfare, … [Read more...]
Early Days of the Advertising Business
Secrets, humiliations and legends in early days of the adverting industry's explosion, from an article of LIFE Magazine April 28th, 1958. As you may … [Read more...]
The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump
"Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)", by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to … [Read more...]
Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”
Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]
Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music
From Things Magazine: "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]
The Future, according to Google Search Results
Google terrifying vision for our future. From Xkcd. Via Entschwindet & Vergeht. … [Read more...]
The State of the World Atlas, 1981
"The State of the World Atlas", Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal. A Pluto Press Project. Heinemann, London, 1981. Hardcover, 250 x 180mm, full … [Read more...]
Oscar Reutersvärd’s impossible constructions as gameplay (Don’t do this at work – 27)
Constructed on isometric projections, Echochrome is a Playstation title in which the player has to refer to perceived/optical geometry rather than … [Read more...]
Nø City Guide, a monumental work on Shanghai
Our friend Matthieu Duperrex, editor of Urbain-trop Urbain, just released his long awaited monography on the city of Shanghai. The Nø City Guide is … [Read more...]
Weaponized Architecture by Léopold Lambert
Léopold Lambert's Weaponized Architecture, an "analysis of Israel’s architecture of colonization in the context of global trends in architecture and … [Read more...]
Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers
208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]
Why Start an Architecture Journal in an Age That is Disgusted with (Most of Them), by Françoise Fromonot
Françoise Fromonot is an architect, teacher and critic. She is professor at the ENSA Paris-Belleville, Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 26
The Artist is Present is a Sierra-style literal recreation of the famed performance piece of the same name by artist Marina Abramovic at the Museum of … [Read more...]
NASA’s 1976 identity guidelines
Four pages of an original copy of NASA’s identity guidelines, from when they re-branded to the ‘worm’ logo, dated January … [Read more...]
Bookmarks: dpr-barcelona | beyond books | between art, science and architecture
Thanks to the friends at DPR Barcelona for thrice-linking Socks on their Facebook page, during our hiatus while visiting Venice's Art Biennale. We'll … [Read more...]
Randomly collected images and diagrams about “Life, a User’s Manual”, George Perec
George Perec, La Vie, Mode d'Emploi. Read more on Ivar Hagendoorn's article "Georges Perec: Life a User's … [Read more...]
DON’T DO THIS AT WORK – 25
Well here you got it all: Pica-Pic collection of fully playable 1970's and 1980's handheld games. Via: Things Magazine. … [Read more...]
Criterion package for 1991 Richard Linklater’s Slacker
"...Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 24
There are movies. There are objects in movies. There are games which let you guess which classic movie a particular object is from, among more than 70 … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 23
Waiting for Godot, the Video Game. As good as it gets. In all its 8-bit glory. Via: Phonkmeister … [Read more...]
The pain of everyday life
A Gordan Savicic's "old" (2007) work "Costraint City - The Pain of Everyday life", which I recently discovered, thanks to Régine Debatty. An … [Read more...]
Don’t do this at work – 22
Isle of tune is a a musical sequencer whose chords, notes and drum blips are represented by little roads with houses, trees, streetlights. As the … [Read more...]
Back from Ars Electronica / Linz: “It’s too late to be a pessimist” *
We are back from Linz and so, so impressed. Despite still being overwhelmed by ideas, imagination and people from this edition of the world's most … [Read more...]
