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“The true story of Mr Like”, By Nanni and Colella – Crowdfunding Campaign

September 15, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

As you may have / already / noticed, we particularly like the work of Italian author, illustrator and comic artist Giacomo Nanni, namely his studies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: animations, comics, illustrations, satire, world weird web

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 61 Comments

“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, literature, magazines, past futures, people, photography, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Hoppla Kultur (50 pictures to the glory of our time) by A. Paul Weber

December 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Ambiguous figure in German history and art, Andreas Paul Weber, prominent lithographer, draftsman and painter, was imprisoned during the Nazi regime … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

Tsunehisa Kimura’s Digital Apocalypse

November 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Tsunehisa Kimura (1928-2008) was a Japanese artist, specialized in photomontage. His works usually depict scenes of surreal destruction, caused by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, japanism, satire, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Pierre-Antoine Marraud, Proposal for a Dystopian Architecture

October 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Some days ago I've been invited as part of the final jury for Pierre-Antoine Marraud (a former student of our atelier at ESA) diploma. This is his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, information graphics, literature, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)

August 26, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 5 Comments

Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: dont do this at work, illustrations, italians, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, social, world weird web

“Utopia”, “The Mediatory City” and “The Struggle for Housing”: Three Issues by Gruppo Strum (1972)

August 13, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Low popular culture and social activism blend together in this magazine of three issues by Gruppo Strum, commissioned by Moma in 1972. The three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, past futures, politics, satire, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

The Future of Architecture and other Collages by Nils-Ole Lund

August 5, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Danish architect, teacher and collage-artist, author of Collage Architecture in 1990, Nils-Ole Lund's fosters the idea that modern architecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, illustrations, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, satire, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba

August 1, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: Art, past futures, politics, satire, visions

The So-called Utopia of Centre Beaubourg, (An interpretation) – Luca Frei

July 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

An epicenter of polemics since its birth, the Centre Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, (after the working-class neighborhood that once occupied its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, literature, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)

June 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: past futures, satire, Sounds, Technology, world weird itself, world weird web

Hipcescu. Come and discover the magic

May 20, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hipcescu, ‘The city of Thousand Suns’, is spoof urbanism. Conceived by an architect, urban planner and arguably a despot, the city is the result of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, politics, psychogeographies, satire, urban chronicles, visions, world weird web

The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump

May 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 16 Comments

"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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: illustrations, pills, satire, Sounds, world weird itself, world weird web

Thomas Carpentier’s “L’homme, mesures de toutes choses”

May 16, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Thomas Carpentier's graduation project at ESA questions the normatization of the human body proportions introduced by early Modernist Architectural … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, politics, psychogeographies, satire, visions, world weird web

The Future, according to Google Search Results

March 30, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Google terrifying vision for our future. From Xkcd. Via Entschwindet & Vergeht. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, past futures, politics, satire, Technology, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

A Consumerist Landscape

March 18, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

From "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle", 1967 Jean-Luc Godard) Excerpts from Wikipedia: The film does not tell a story so much as a present … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, movies, past futures, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions

Hell is Real! (The miracle of Fluo-colours, by Dimitris Polychroniadis)

March 16, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

While on la Periferia Domestica (a constant and very recommended reading) we stumbled upon a post about a miniature satire by Dimitris … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art, politics, psychogeographies, satire, world weird web

Utopia Factory Abraxas / Terrorism Museum, by Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon

March 11, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Come back home right after a fast yet inspiring chat with Paris based artist Stéphane Degoutin at the 104, I and Mariabruna were curious enough to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, information graphics, politics, psychogeographies, satire, Technology, urban chronicles, visions

A phrenology of the artist’s mind: Grayson Perry‘s 2004 “Map of an Englishman”

February 25, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Grayson Perry's 2004 "Map of an Englishman" is a 120 x 150 cm psychogeographical exploration of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, land art, literature, maps, past futures, psychogeographies, satire, visions, world weird web

Cycle Masturbation Machines, Jan Švankmajer, 1972-1973

February 23, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

A great influence for Terry Gilliam and many other authors, Czech filmaker and surrealism artist Jan Švankmajer drew, in the early 70's, a set of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, illustrations, politics, satire, Technology, visions, world weird web

NEU-YORK, a psycho-geographical cartography of alternate history

November 7, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

This is how New York could have turn to, had America been conquered by Nazis in the 40's. A project by Melissa Gould (MeGo). "NEU-YORK … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Cartographies of Reality and Fiction, Culture, Territories Tagged With: Art, information graphics, maps, past futures, politics, satire, social, virtual chronicles, visions

The implausible futurist: Steven M. Johnson

September 29, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Since the 70's, Steven M. Johnson, (not to be confused with the almost homonymous Steven B. Johnson ) amused himself drawing utopian products on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, industrial design, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, visions

Ali Ferzat, Syrian political cartoonist

August 29, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Syrian satirical cartoonist Ali Ferzat was beaten up and got his hands broken as a warning to stop his caricatures. Following the request by Marco … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: illustrations, politics, satire, social

Euthanasia Coaster

May 11, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, satire

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