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‘The Sound Sweep’ by George Thomson

October 1, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Produced in 2007-8 for Nic Clear's Unit 15 course, 'Crash: Architectures of the Near Future', at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. More … [Read more...]

‘London after the Rain’ by Ben Olszyna-Marzys

October 1, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Produced in 2007-8 for Nic Clear's Unit 15 course, 'Crash: Architectures of the Near Future', at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. More … [Read more...]

Lumière Brothers – The Serpentine Dance (c.1899)

October 1, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Shot and hand-colored - frame by frame - at the end of the 19th Century. Still captivating today, but just imagine what it must have been like to … [Read more...]

Nearness: interacting without touching

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Nearness explores interacting without touching. More here and here. … [Read more...]

Touchable Holography

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Book of Genesis illustrated by R. Crumb

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU – Paris, 2009 (Ni9e Factory)

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ni9e Factory Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU - Paris, 2009 - All characters taken from tags photographed in Paris, April 2009. Official poster for Fondation … [Read more...]

LIVE FOREVER – The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Intelligent, critical, to the point. LIVE FOREVER - The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition   … [Read more...]

David Byrne: A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"Size A city can't be too small. Size guarantees anonymity. (...) Density If a city doesn't have sufficient density, as in L.A., then strange … [Read more...]

PIG 05049 by Christien Meindertsma

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: … [Read more...]

Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin?

September 19, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Letters between Malcolm McLaren and Martin Margiela, with a portfolio styled by Margiela (himself!).   … [Read more...]

Electronics in The World of Tomorrow

September 19, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Erkki Kurenniemi is considered a prophet of artificial-intelligence research, headband videos and artificial reality, often being 10-40 years ahead of … [Read more...]

The Sci-fi Corridors

September 19, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In praise of one of the most prominent architectural elements in every Sci-Fi movie: the corridor.   … [Read more...]

On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces, by Ben Fry

September 19, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces“, 2009 by Ben Fry. Via: VVORK … [Read more...]

Wim Delvoye – Cloaca Factory

September 13, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Belgian artist Wim Delvoye created a defecating machine. … [Read more...]

IKEA Catalog anno 1965

September 13, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

"My parents like to keep the annual IKEA catalogs – it says it is the most printed book (edit: printed publication) after the bible. Yesterday my mum … [Read more...]

Motoi Yamamoto

September 13, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Motoi Yamamoto works with salt.   … [Read more...]

Vol Libre by Loren Carpenter

September 13, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Loren Carpenter: "I made this film in 1979-80 to accompany a SIGGRAPH paper on how to synthesize fractal geometry with a computer. It is the world's … [Read more...]

Drei Klavierstücke op. 11, played by YouTube cats, by Cory Arcangel

September 13, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Cory Arcangel says: "Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka … [Read more...]

Retro-Futurism Archives

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In November 1996, Apple announced it would open a chain of cafés. Videoconferencing and on-demand movies and music were among the touted attractions, … [Read more...]

Gary Settles, photographer

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Gary takes the most remarkable Schlieren photographs and movies in the world. He uses his refined techniques to understand everything from how a dog's … [Read more...]

Pixel City – Procedurally generated city

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

This is a demonstration of a program to generate and fly through a dynamically generated city. You can read the step-by-step of how it was made at … [Read more...]

Steve Albini: Don’t Call Me Producer

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Roc-Doc about Indie recording engineer and minimalist rock legend Mr. Steven Albini. … [Read more...]

Steve Albini on “Fake Italian”

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Steve Albini explains "Fake Italian" and the many different ways to use the language. This interview was filmed for the upcoming documentary on … [Read more...]

LittleBits of Electronics

July 27, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

LittleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex … [Read more...]

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