Archive for the 'Art & design' Category

Storycubes, Diffusion Generator, Urban Tagging

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Friday, April 4th, 2008. Edmonton: Panel discussion & workshop featuring renowned artists Giles Lane and Orlagh Woods of the new media, urban-based and community-engaged arts group Proboscis.

Proboscis is an artist-led studio with collaboration at the core of their creative practice and ethic. They work across disciplines & practices to explore social, cultural and creative issues. […]

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Arturas Valiauga: I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life (2002-2003)
An old lady and her middle-aged son live in a modestly furnished house. Some of the photos show the two of them at home, on the sofa, at the kitchen table, or on the edge of the bed. What was most important to the […]

Presents past

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Worth1000 - Vintage Ads Photoshop Contest (via textually)

Nintendo Wii by gugacurado

Segway by DocMinor

Nokia Mobile by RebelD0g
- Anne

Adapting architecture

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Very nice! I wonder if this is an extended family or…? In any case, it’s pretty cool communal living.
Via Bricoleurbanism.
UPDATE: adaptivereuse.net reports that this is, in fact, an Amsterdam theatre set. So much better than the “Redneck Mansion” caption I saw!
- Anne

Book review — City stages: theatre and urban space in a global city

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City, Michael McKinnie, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007
Shakespeare suggested that “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”, but what is the relationship between world and stage? What is the use of spaces for culture, and of culture for spaces? […]

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