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Oscar Reutersvärd’s impossible constructions as gameplay (Don’t do this at work – 27)

March 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Constructed on isometric projections, Echochrome is a Playstation title in which the player has to refer to perceived/optical geometry rather than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, dont do this at work, form of form, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Nø City Guide, a monumental work on Shanghai

February 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions

Weaponized Architecture by Léopold Lambert

December 29, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Léopold Lambert's Weaponized Architecture, an "analysis of Israel’s architecture of colonization in the context of global trends in architecture and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, go public, magazines, people, politics, social, street, urban chronicles, visions

Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers

November 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, magazines, photography, world weird web

Why Start an Architecture Journal in an Age That is Disgusted with (Most of Them), by Françoise Fromonot

November 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Françoise Fromonot is an architect, teacher and critic. She is professor at the ENSA Paris-Belleville, Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, magazines, world weird web

Don’t do this at work – 26

September 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: Art, dont do this at work, electronic arts

The Museum of Obsolete Objects

September 5, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The MOOO makes an interesting use of YouTube, in order to provide informations on our immediate past. A walk down memory lane on things replaced by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: industrial design, information graphics, past futures

NASA’s 1976 identity guidelines

July 31, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Four pages of an original copy of NASA’s identity guidelines, from when they re-branded to the ‘worm’ logo, dated January … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, Technology, typography

Bookmarks: dpr-barcelona | beyond books | between art, science and architecture

July 28, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, politics, social, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

Randomly collected images and diagrams about “Life, a User’s Manual”, George Perec

July 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

George Perec, La Vie, Mode d'Emploi. Read more on Ivar Hagendoorn's article "Georges Perec: Life a User's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Media Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, literature, maps, street, urban chronicles

Random magazine: the book!

June 8, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

New-media art Random magazine quits, but it is still online. Ten years of publications have been condensed in a book you can buy or freely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Technology Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, literature, world weird web

DON’T DO THIS AT WORK – 25

April 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Well here you got it all: Pica-Pic collection of fully playable 1970's and 1980's handheld games. Via: Things Magazine. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, Technology Tagged With: dont do this at work, past futures, world weird web

Criterion package for 1991 Richard Linklater’s Slacker

April 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"...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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, go public, illustrations, maps, urban chronicles

Reminds Me of Remind Me

March 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Reminds you of what? Remind me, of course! It's Brandt Brauer Frick's music video for "Caffeine", by Patricia Luna and Danae … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: animations, information graphics, Sounds, world weird web

Don’t do this at work – 24

March 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, movies, world weird web

Don’t do this at work – 23

February 20, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Waiting for Godot, the Video Game. As good as it gets. In all its 8-bit glory. Via: Phonkmeister … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, literature, world weird web

Copy paste character

February 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Copypastecharacter.com, a website which does exactly what is supposed to. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: typography

The pain of everyday life

January 22, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, world weird web

The fine art of goofing off by Henry Jacobs

December 28, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In 1972 television and audio pioneer Henry Jacobs, among whose works you can file the invention of surround sound (Vortex: Experiments in Sound and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: animations, world weird web

Don’t do this at work – 22

December 18, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: dont do this at work, Sounds, world weird web

James Whitney, pioneer of visual music

November 24, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Early (50's to 70's) attempts of illustrating music with motion patterns, caleidoscopic textures, dots and grids: James Whitney, visual composer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: animations, electronic arts, form of form, world weird web

And other fake science

October 28, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Culture, Media Tagged With: visions, world weird web

The desk – L studio

October 10, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

An interesting documentary about creative people and their nearest workplaces. In this first episode "The Desk," we talked to experts Alice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, Territories Tagged With: visions, world weird web

Back from Ars Electronica / Linz: “It’s too late to be a pessimist” *

September 7, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, japanism, past futures, Sounds, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

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