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Makihiko, by Roberto la Forgia

February 23, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"Insomma cercate di capire: sono a casa dei miei genitori e la voglia di non fare un cazzo è alta. (In short, try to understand: I'm at home by my … [Read more...]

Engineer’s Guide to Drinks

February 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Originally “issued for mass consumption” on May, 1, 1978. Found on Flowingdata. Full pdf here. Related: Charted guide to fancy … [Read more...]

“A Sequence of Lines” and “A Sequence of circles”, by Clement Valla

February 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

clementvalla.com "A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing … [Read more...]

Le quattro volte (The four times), by Michelangelo Frammartino

February 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Le quattro volte on IMDB, As part of the series "The SRF for the Directors' Fortnight", Licia Eminenti, director and member of the SRF, introduces … [Read more...]

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...]

Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future

February 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ward Jenkins shared some marvelous scans of illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia for a book titled: Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future (by … [Read more...]

One Robot One Orchestra

February 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

On May 17th, 2008 an industrial FANUC robot directs an entire orchestra alone, for more than one and a half hour. … [Read more...]

Mondrian tiling

February 9, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"Algorithmic art and fractal aesthetic", pushing Mondrian-like patterns to their limits. Here. Process: "In the variation, … [Read more...]

Just in Time, or A Short History of Production, by Xavier Antin

February 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Four printers using differents technologies from 1880 to 1976. Each printer produces just one colour and is in chain with another one to get together … [Read more...]

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...]

Visualizing sound waves

February 5, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Update: Mauro made a similar experiment with a suspended beam, obtaining one-dimensional patterns. "Chladni Patterns are created by the sand that … [Read more...]

Faces as Topographies

February 4, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Enrico Bonafede / Studio Volk. 'The city of sounds, the city of words'. Two illustrations for Radio Citta' Futura. Read more at … [Read more...]

Iliad, one page.

February 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

All the Homer's Iliad, poster version, one page. Does this mean anything? I don't know, they say: "Once upon a time we asked ourselves a peculiar … [Read more...]

Wonders of Industries

February 2, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"Les merveilles de l'industrie, ou description des principales industries modernes", by Louis Figuier (1873-1877). You can find the 4 volumes online, … [Read more...]

La ville rangée, by Armelle Caron

February 1, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 7 Comments

Anagrammes graphiques de plans de villes - 2005 / 2008 ces dessins sont imprimés sur toile canevas en 3 exemplaires numérotés (120 cm de large par … [Read more...]

Fastener type chart, on Bolt Depot

January 31, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Bolt Depot's nice "fastener type chart". Printable version here. Via: BoingBoing and Make … [Read more...]

Kinetic sculptures by Seth Goldstein

January 29, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Seth Goldstein is a retired mechanical engineer who creates kinetic sculpture machines. I only found this page, apart of his Youtube channel. Why … [Read more...]

Just 30

January 28, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The progress of technology is evident in the evolution of the storage systems. What was produced less than 30 years ago is unknown just like a … [Read more...]

“Valerie and her week of wonders”, a film in images

January 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

1970's Czech surrealist/horror tale of a "girl getting her period", Valerie and her week of wonders is a strange film where love, fear, sex and … [Read more...]

The sound of Noise

January 25, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A new Swedish (crime) movie, where music is literally a synchronization of noise(s). Nice musical performances! By the way: while watching this … [Read more...]

ArchiZines

January 23, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

ARCHI ZINES is a showcase of new fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative discourse to the established … [Read more...]

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...]

The Noun Project

January 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate, and enhance the world’s visual language. The goal is to collect and organize all the symbols that … [Read more...]

The labyrinths of musical genres

January 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

A list of apps which let you explore music like a geography of relationships. The labyrinth of genre "I’m fascinated with how music genres … [Read more...]

Xenakis Emulator, by Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl

January 11, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Xenakis-Emulator is an audiovisual adaptation of two key works of architect/composer Iannis Xenakis - the composition "Metastasseis" and the … [Read more...]

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