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Thomas Weinberger

2006-10-15T20:32:00.000-07:00

Photographs combine day and night exposures

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Pop Levi "Blue Honey" Dir. Christian Swegal

2006-10-15T20:29:00.000-07:00

Pray for a Glorious Land

2006-10-11T20:43:00.000-07:00

Théo gennitsakis is a Paris and Athens based designer

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Ultimate Warrior is Insane

2006-10-11T20:39:00.000-07:00

Stefan Banz

2006-10-08T20:21:00.000-07:00

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Via VVork

Dzark

2006-10-05T18:44:00.000-07:00

"Design studio launched in fall of 2000 by Virgilio Santos"

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Jonas Bendiksen

2006-10-04T18:33:00.000-07:00

"Jonas Bendiksen, 26, is a Norwegian photojournalist."

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Adrien Missika

2006-10-01T15:14:00.000-07:00

Paris based photographer.

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Via VVork

Circless Mirror: Daniel Rozin

2006-09-30T18:03:00.000-07:00

"Circles Mirror is a mechanical sculpture made of 900 overlapping circles with patterns printed on them and connected to motors, computer and video camera. Any person standing in front of the piece is reflected on the piece by the circles rotating to expose more dark/ bright patterns as needed. The piece utilizes 12 different patterns of radial gradation from black to white which are randomly placed on the board."

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Sheena Easton in Japan

2006-09-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

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Sharon Marston

2006-09-28T17:09:00.000-07:00

"Sharon Marston specialises in the design and creation of unique, bespoke, and sculptural light installations, focusing on introducing light creatively through the use of fibre optic technology."

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Royal Imposters

2006-09-26T20:07:00.000-07:00

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Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch

2006-09-25T20:49:00.000-07:00

Non-Format

2006-09-24T20:17:00.000-07:00

"Non-Format is a creative team comprising Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). They work on a range of projects including art direction, design and illustration for music industry, arts & culture, fashion and advertising clients. They also art directed the monthly music magazine The Wire between 2001 and 2005."

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Via Design is Kinky

Bevk Perović

2006-09-24T10:41:00.000-07:00

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Marina City, Chicago: Bertrand Goldberg

2006-09-24T08:33:00.000-07:00

"Today I am to talk about our new $36 million living center in the heart of Chicago at the Chicago River and State Street - Marina City. I'm going to tell you about the blood and guts of its design and do a crystal ball on the way men may expect to find cities in the next 40 years of this century.

My Mother-in-law asked me to describe the Central City planning which Marina City envisions. I went through a rather lengthy and philosophical explanation, and she said very simply and brightly, "Oh, that's what we used to call living above the store."

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United Visual Artists

2006-09-20T19:12:00.000-07:00

"UVA's approach combines three disciplines: art direction, production design and software engineering. Our philosophy is to tightly integrate these elements to deliver real-time, immersive and responsive experiences."

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Activating the Feeling of Being Followed

2006-09-20T19:10:00.000-07:00

"Ever had the feeling you're being followed? Neuroscientists have accidentally induced this creepy feeling in a woman with epilepsy while electrically stimulating the left side of her brain."

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Vintage LED Watches

2006-09-18T20:14:00.000-07:00

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Jeroen Diepenmaat

2006-09-17T19:36:00.000-07:00

Dutch artist.

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Via VVORK

openDemocracy: Free Thinking for the Free World

2006-09-17T09:30:00.000-07:00

"openDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world..."

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For 1st Woman With Bionic Arm, a New Life Is Within Reach

2006-09-15T15:36:00.000-07:00

"Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person - and first woman - to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone."

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Papercraft Guns From Japan

2006-09-15T15:34:00.000-07:00

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Via Make

Tsar Bomba

2006-09-13T18:24:00.000-07:00

"Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, literally "Emperor-bomb") is the Western name for the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Developed by the Soviet Union, the ~50 megaton bomb was codenamed Ivan (Russian: Иван) by its developers...The seismic shock created by the detonation was measurable even on its third passage around the earth...This is equivalent to approximately 1% of the energy output of the Sun during the same fraction of a second. The detonation of Tsar Bomba therefore qualifies, even to this day, as being the single most powerful device ever utilized throughout the history of humanity."

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Airside

2006-09-13T15:17:00.000-07:00

"Airside is a London-based design company set up in 1999. We work in moving image, graphic design + illustration, and digital + interactive media. The Airside folk have diverse backgrounds, from fine art to programming, knitting to English literature. To find out more see our biographies below."

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Tangerine Dream: Sorcerer Soundtrack (1977)

2006-09-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

"This album is as fascinating as the underrated William Friedkin film. First, Tangerine Dream never saw a frame when they wrote it. Armed only with a copy of the script, they worked away until Friedkin received 90 minutes of music one day while he was still filming in the jungle."

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Mean North

2006-09-11T19:31:00.000-07:00

Naja Conrad-Hansen is a Copenhagen-based illustrator and graphic designer.

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Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder

2006-09-10T19:24:00.000-07:00

"Suspended polystyrene balls held in place on nylon wire fill the room in a rough grid, running though the spectrum from reds to blues up the room with a few rogue orange balls escaping their hue, bubbling up into the cooler tones."

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Mogollon New York

2006-09-08T15:51:00.000-07:00

"Mogollon is an Art Direction, Motion Graphics, Productions Design and Graphic Design studio based in New York."

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Designgraphik HD Thailand Travelogue

2006-09-08T15:47:00.000-07:00

Designgraphik's Thailand travelogue short.

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Pierre Huyghe

2006-09-07T08:51:00.000-07:00

"Pierre Huyghe. Artist. Born in Paris, 1962. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1982-85. Award: DAAD, Artist in residency, Berlin, 1999-2000."

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Quipu

2006-09-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

"This marvelous method of communication which they used was nothing more than a series of knotted multicolored strings. Although this instrument was not a mode of writing or a system of calculating numbers, it served as the mnemonic device by which the Incas sent messages, recorded their laws, and decided the fate of conquered territories."

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Quechua

2006-09-05T22:26:00.000-07:00

"Quechua (Runa Simi; Kichwa in Ecuador) is a Native American language of South America. It was the language of the Inca Empire, and is today spoken in various dialects by some 10 million people throughout South America, including Peru and Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile. It is the most widely spoken of all American Indian languages."

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Peru Vacation Photos

2006-09-04T20:16:00.000-07:00

Just returned from a fantastic vacation to the Peruvian highlands.

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Marc Moulin: Placebo Years 1971 - 1974

2006-09-03T22:24:00.000-07:00

"Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin has been a jazz craftsman for more than three decades. A leader in the field of acid jazz, he began his career by playing the piano in the '60s throughout Europe. During the following decade, he established a band known as Placebo."

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Broadcast: Future Crayon

2006-09-02T10:05:00.000-07:00

"Broadcast return with a collection of previously released singles and compilation tracks, with lots of instrumentals and some alternate versions tacked on as well. The band's more experimental side is showcased here, with many of the songs being outtakes from Haha Sound. Over 70-minutes long, Future Crayon is tailored for the true Broadcast lover which, very similar to obsessive Stereolab fans, seems to be many, myself included. There aren't a lot of surprises for anyone who's familiar with the band; however, there is plenty to be enjoyed. For those of you who haven't sampled Broadcast's retro-future take on Joseph Byrd productions and '60s-inspired psychedelic soundtracks, by way of the buzz and purr of analog synths and, of course, singer Trish Keenan's dreamy melodies, start with one of their proper full-lengths, be it The Noise Made by People, Haha Sound, or Tender Buttons. Sure enough, you'll be hooked and soon visiting Future Crayon for more."

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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain

2006-08-31T10:34:00.000-07:00

"Six of these eight debut short stories feature Americans abroad, on modified grand tours stopping in Colombia, Haiti, Myanmar and Sierra Leone. As aid workers, soldiers and hangers-on, they grapple with some of the darkest circumstances in the contemporary world, their struggles made absurd by the ease with which they can and do return home. A few are honorably conflicted, including the NGO worker who betrays her diamond-smuggling lover. Others, including an indolent golfer who sells his soul along with his game, and a writer nursing an obsession with Che Guevara, draw less sympathy. Fountain seems to see both travel and introspection as amoral indulgences, which means there's serious writerly self-hatred here, since those indulgences feed his tales. The stories that avoid moral writhings for postmodern fable are his most memorable. When a Haitian fisherman discovers a drug runners' drop-off and tries to alert the police, only to find them driving shiny new SUVs, he turns next to the village's voodoo revelers who have better ideas about what to do with the dope. Lively work, with much to detest and much to enjoy."

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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

2006-08-31T10:32:00.000-07:00

"If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves -- Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom -- escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history."

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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

2006-08-29T18:09:00.000-07:00

"College-aged Guène was raised by Algerian immigrant parents in a Parisian housing project; in her debut novel, a French bestseller, 15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother, having been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father, are stuck in a Paris housing project called the Paradise. Dependent on welfare and subjected to the obligatory succession of social workers, the two are determined to face forward, despite Doria's sense of doomed mektoub (destiny), where gradual improvement (French: kiffe kiffe) gets flattened by the same old quotidian (Arabic: kif-kif)."

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Cassiano

2006-08-12T19:05:00.000-07:00

Direction & Motion Design from London.

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Sharpest Manmade Thing

2006-08-11T15:56:00.000-07:00

"A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second)."

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Recent Work: Walmart Canada

2006-08-10T20:45:00.000-07:00

Animation. Produced at Stardust New York.

Little Fish Dir. Rowan Woods

2006-08-10T20:42:00.000-07:00

"Tracey Heart's past won't let her go. Aged 32, she's spent the past four years recovering from her heroin habit and redeeming herself in the eyes of her mother. Beset by the complex relationships within her family, her world is thrown into further turmoil by the unexpected return of her ex-boyfriend, Jonny.The criminal aspirations of her brother, Ray, and coping with the attempts of ex-footy star and junkie, Lionel Dawson to withdraw from his habit, almost prove too much. The complexity of deceit within Tracy's own life is mirrored by that within Sydney's drug underworld as Tracey becomes tangled with criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson. Tracey has to confront her own fears before she learns to love again."

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Pet Shop Boys - Minimal Dir. Don Cameron

2006-08-07T19:59:00.000-07:00

Cell Phone Disco

2006-08-07T19:17:00.000-07:00

"Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone."

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Calculating the speed of sight

2006-08-06T20:23:00.000-07:00

"Each of your eyes transfers information to your brain at about the same speed as a fast Ethernet connection, US researchers have calculated.

That might sound impressive, but the scientists say that our neurons could move data a lot faster than that. The fact that they do not suggests that our nervous system is trading off speed against energy-efficiency."

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Mark Squires

2006-08-06T20:18:00.000-07:00

New York raised photographer.

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Justin Fines

2006-08-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

Design, Art Direction and Broadcast Design from Brooklyn.

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Glassworks for Alexander McQueen

2006-08-04T18:17:00.000-07:00

"Glassworks Special Projects recently completed post-production on a unique 3-minute sequence for Alexander McQueen's fashion show in Paris."

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Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual: Joel Tauber

2006-08-02T20:49:00.000-07:00

A 7 channel video installation.

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Jean-Claude Lussier

2006-08-01T19:50:00.000-07:00

French-based fashion photographer.

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Massive Attack: False Flags Dir. Paul Gore

2006-07-31T21:30:00.000-07:00

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Cybernetic Serendipity 1968

2006-07-28T15:30:00.000-07:00

"Press Release for the exhibit curated by Jasia Reichardt at the ICA London August 2nd to October 20th, 1968: «Cybernetics - derives from the Greek «kybernetes» meaning «steersman»; our word «governor» comes from the Latin version of the same word. The term cybernetics was first used by Norbert Wiener around 1948. In 1948 his book «Cybernetics» was subtitled «communication and control in animal and machine.» The term today refers to systems of communication and control in complex electronic devices like computers, which have very definite similarities with the processes of communication and control in the human nervous system."

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Meenakshi Temple

2006-07-27T20:31:00.000-07:00

"The Meenakshi temple is a Hindu temple in the Tamil Nadu city of Madurai. It was named after the Princess Meenakshi in Hindu mythology."

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DORIS

2006-07-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

Experimental computer study by W. Vasulka.

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Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 2

2006-07-25T19:50:00.000-07:00

"Imaginational Anthem Volume One featured two generations of important acoustic guitarists, from John Fahey and Sandy Bull to Jack Rose and Kaki King. The record received unanimous praise in the press and was featured on NPR's "Weekend Edition". Volume 2 expands and builds on this theme with 70+ more minutes of guitar magic - all previously unreleased on CD in the US."

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Hydrobarbon Lakes Found on Titan

2006-07-24T21:05:00.000-07:00

"The Cassini spacecraft, using its radar system, has discovered very strong evidence for hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Dark patches, which resemble terrestrial lakes, seem to be sprinkled all over the high latitudes surrounding Titan's north pole."

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La Ruta Natural

2006-07-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

"When David wakes up after a strange accident in the shower, he can't remember anything, not even his own name...although he can't pin it down, there's something wrong and sinister about this new world that surrounds him."

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Frank Frazetta

2006-07-23T12:40:00.000-07:00

"The incredible paintings of Frank Frazetta have brought him worldwide fame, legions of loyal fans, and scores of imitators."

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Biofuels: Think Outside The Barrel

2006-07-22T15:12:00.000-07:00

"Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures."

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Mi-Zo

2006-07-21T16:08:00.000-07:00

"The creative photographer unit of Zoren Gold and Minori started their collaboration in 2000. Zoren and Minori explore the free form of photographic expression."

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Jacob Dahlgren

2006-07-21T15:32:00.000-07:00

Jacob Dahlgren born 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Maboroshi no hikari

2006-07-21T11:16:00.000-07:00

"Hirokazu Kore-eda's haunting, graceful Japanese film features a concentrated and powerfully reserved performance by Makiko Esumi as Yumiko, a young woman whose life is defined by the death and disappearance of her loved ones. As a child, she witnessed her grandmother's walking away from her family; as an adult, she must face the fact that her husband has committed suicide.

Impeccably lit and framed, this self-consciously classical first feature blends characteristics of two of the great Japanese masters: a sensitive portrait of a woman's suffering is reminiscent of Mikio Naruse and a serene, minimalist style is suggestive of Yasujiro Ozu. At times, Kore-eda seems to be trudging too dutifully in the path of his illustrious predecessors, and there is little in the film that could be qualified as original. Yet Maborosi remains convincing in its subtle, sustained moods and the quiet confidence of its approach."

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King Tutankhamun's Gem Hints at Space Impact

2006-07-19T20:03:00.000-07:00

"In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of Tutankhamun's necklaces.

The jewel was tested and found to be glass, but intriguingly it is older than the earliest Egyptian civilisation.

Working with Egyptian geologist Aly Barakat, they traced its origins to unexplained chunks of glass found scattered in the sand in a remote region of the Sahara Desert.

But the glass is itself a scientific enigma. How did it get to be there and who or what made it?

Thursday's BBC Horizon programme reports an extraordinary new theory linking Tutankhamun's gem with a meteor."

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Muse Knights of Cydonia

2006-07-18T21:30:00.000-07:00

Recent Work: MTV 10 Spot

2006-07-16T10:38:00.000-07:00

Design. Produced for Stardust New York.

Paavoharju

2006-07-16T10:29:00.000-07:00

"Paavoharju hail from Finland and frolic in the same forest as Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja and Lau Nau. Yhä Hämärää was recorded between 2001 and 2005, and is filled with many of the similar wispy, psychedelic-hued tones that swirl in their Finnish friends' music, but their debut album also exists on a dreamier plane."

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Jude Stoll

2006-07-16T09:58:00.000-07:00

"I was brought up in a family of 'Wombles', who delight in the challenge of making use of things that other people discard. This has rarely been out of necessity, but for the pleasure and sense of gratification it brings. Coupled with my own love of nature and passion for environmental responsibility it has inspired a use of found objects and recycling within my work.

I thrive on the alchemy of converting people's undesirable waste materials into something they then desire again. I gain a great sense of achievement in the cyclical nature of allowing consumerism and a throwaway society to provide me with my raw materials. I react to the qualities of the materials I collect, and through experimentation produce a reincarnation that may be a work of art or a piece of functional design dependant on the potential of the material. This allowance of the material to specify the end product ensures that each piece of work I create stands alone, feeding my need for the freedom to create something new each time."

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Alexander Gnädinger

2006-07-15T13:50:00.000-07:00

Freelance photographer based in Berlin.

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Spanish Pharma Advertising, 1960-70

2006-07-13T21:11:00.000-07:00

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Spacecraft successfully inflates in orbit

2006-07-12T21:40:00.000-07:00

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Architecture and Hygiene

2006-07-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

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John Powers

2006-07-11T12:46:00.000-07:00

Artist. Sculpture, installation, and drawing.

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via Tropolism

Hits of 76ix, Pt. 2

2006-07-09T17:33:00.000-07:00

"Much anticipated and severely delayed Hits Part 2 delivers and well worth the wait to boot. Mr. 76ix comes back from an amazing opening and proves that he is the true Analord with his sophomore LP. He serves up yet another amazing excursion into the world of Hardcore Analogue beats of old."

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Mariosoup

2006-07-08T11:25:00.000-07:00

"Any piece of executable code is also commingled with data, ranging from simple sentences of text for error messages to entire sets of graphics for the application. In older cartridge-based console games, the images for each of the small on-screen images (the "sprites") were often stored as raw data embedded after the actual program's instructions. This piece examines the unpacking of a Nintendo game cartridge, decoding the program as a four-color image, revealing a beautiful soup of the thousands of individual elements that make up the game screen."

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A Gallery of Abandoned Buildings

2006-07-08T07:45:00.000-07:00

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Rotuma

2006-07-07T22:22:00.000-07:00

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Spray Paint Forever

2006-07-07T09:00:00.000-07:00

Starfish Prime: July 9, 1962

2006-07-05T09:46:00.000-07:00

"Just a word, Mr. Speaker, about what this EMP is. It is very much like a really giant solar storm. All of us are familiar with solar storms and with the disruption to our communication systems. And this is like a really giant solar storm. It is kind of like really intense static electricity everywhere all at once, all over the whole country."

July 4th in Brooklyn

2006-07-04T20:28:00.000-07:00

Tokyo G-Cans Project

2006-07-04T14:09:00.000-07:00

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Recent Work: Walmart@Stardust

2006-07-04T14:00:00.000-07:00

Vangelis: Spiral

2006-07-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

Expo 67 Montreal Postcards

2006-07-04T13:17:00.000-07:00