Modern-day photo retouching (as in here and here) is a big business in the world of magazines and advertisements and mass media, and every now and then there’s an outcry about how fake it all is. It distorts perceptions of beauty and reality, and el…
Archives for the Date March 14th, 2011
Video from Toyo Ito’s Mediatheque during earthquake unveiled
Monday, 14 March 2011
“Violent shaking but no real destruction at Toyo Ito’s Mediatheque in Sendai. Earthquake-wracked Sendai is home to Toyo Ito’s 2001 Mediatheque building, a multipurpose cultural center and one of Japan’s — and the world’s — most significant pieces o…
Cool Modular Building Material
Monday, 14 March 2011
These modular bricks from the Brickstainable competition take my breath away. There’s a great and detailed post on the BLDGBLOG detailing two winners with amazing brick designs which allow buildings to be built to create microclimates “by allowing v…
This year’s new look? NOT DETECTED
Monday, 14 March 2011
Sign of the Times: Camo That Outwits Facebook’s Facial Recognition… via .
Adam Harvey’s thesis project at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program is very Philip K. Dick: in a world where there’s some computer-assisted len…
“The horror … the horror …” Apocalypse Now (1979)
Monday, 14 March 2011
“The horror … the horror …”
Apocalypse Now (1979)