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Ich bin ein Berliner

January 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

BEER WAS BETTER THERE ICH BIN EIN BERLINER Read more on We Make Money not Art: Book review: Atlas of the Conflict. … [Read more...]

The art of drowning, by Diego Maclean

January 9, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Vancouver based Brazilian illustrator/animator Diego Maclean: The Art of Drowning. Poem by Billy Collins. Diego Maclean … [Read more...]

No Wave/Mutant Disco whimpers from Downtown 81

January 9, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

What's Downtown 81? Watch the trailer here. 'New York Beat' was shot over December 1980 and January 1981. It was initially funded by Fiorucci and … [Read more...]

Kraftwerk and the electronic revolution

January 8, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is the kind of documentary that blows me away. the other 18 parts are here. … [Read more...]

250mb of old maps of South London

January 4, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Maps dating back to the 16th century, free for downloading. Here. Londini Angliae Regni Metropolis - circa 1690 Simonson's Map of … [Read more...]

“When you pressurize it, it’s like working inside of a sausage”

December 31, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Space engineering, at its peak during the space race, did not focus solely on the design of rockets and spaceships. Many of the actual marvels, meant … [Read more...]

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...]

Funny quadrocopter experiments at the Swiss Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

December 26, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"Echo" is one of the quadrocopters at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control. Researchers put a piano in … [Read more...]

Cause it’s better than monopoly

December 22, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ask a ridiculous question - you get a ridiculous answer. Lou -blond, in a possibly endless 1974 interview. … [Read more...]

“Lasted” (Benoit Pioulard), video by Church & Steak

December 22, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This animated adaptation of 1962 Sci-Fi milestone "La Jetée" was featured in the always inspiring blog "This is all about audio dynamite", written by … [Read more...]

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...]

Body-hack Hero?

December 17, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ok, irony is enough, this is excellent. Daito Manabe is not new to music-controlled facial twiches, but his last work includes sensors that allow … [Read more...]

WHITE DOG (1981)

December 17, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 6 Comments

"A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people." This is Imdb summary and I couldn't agree more. White Dog is … [Read more...]

Italian musical avant-garde of the 60’s and 70’s

December 11, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

(Gruppo di improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza): Azio II Mario Bertoncini, Walter Branchi, Franco Evangelisti, John Heineman, Roland Kayn, Egisto Macchi, … [Read more...]

Metropolis II, by Chris Burden

December 8, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQ2vqFJvpA … [Read more...]

FIRST MEN TO THE MOON (1960)

December 8, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In 1960, Wernher von Braun published a fictional book based on an astronaut of the future bound to the Moon, depicting a time when space travel would … [Read more...]

My little piece of privacy, by Niklas Roy

December 8, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Privacy + Lacey "grandma" motorized curtain + Processing = funny technology! "My workshop is located in an old storefront with a big window facing … [Read more...]

The Swimmer (1968)

December 6, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ned Merrill has been away for a long time. He reappears at a friends pool and he's greeted with love by everybody. As they talk, Ned notices that … [Read more...]

Ariel Pink before and after

December 5, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"People boo me everywhere... They don't even hide their contempt. I'm used to it now...Hey, I'm giving audiences the real thing...For better or worse, … [Read more...]

Pas de deux, by Norman McLaren

December 4, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Norman McLaren, a great Scottish-born Canadian animation artisan. Make sure you read his profile on National Film Board of Canada Norman McLaren … [Read more...]

Screaming in music

December 2, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

One of the posters from Half Letter Press store. Beautiful catalogue, worth a visit. "A double-sided glossy poster that was created for Marc's … [Read more...]

Wikileaks cables breakdown

November 29, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

WikiLeaks cables broken down. Click image for full graphic. Illustration: Finbarr Sheehy for the Guardian. … [Read more...]

The other faces of Roberto

November 26, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Our dear friend Roberto La Forgia drew the illustrations for the new Sergio Romano book "Le altre facce della storia" (a pun that could roughly … [Read more...]

George the robot is 60 and alive

November 26, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Tony Sale, known for the 1994 Colossus computer replica, created a humanoid robot more than 60 years ago. Built from scrap aluminium from a crashed … [Read more...]

Richard Lainhart, Handmade Music

November 25, 2010 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

R.L. is a self called "digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data." [His] "music reflects the spirit of possibility that once defined … [Read more...]

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