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I. EDIBLE ESTATES
- #01: Salina
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- #03: Maplewood
- #04: London
- #05: Austin
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- #08: Lenape
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II. ANIMAL ESTATES
- 1.0: New York City
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III. DOMESTIC INTEGRITY FIELDS
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IV. FRITZ HAEG STUDIO
- 2001: Sundown Residence, Los Angeles
- 2004: peres projects, Los Angeles
- 2007: Plan B, Mass MOCA
- 2008: Bernardi Residence, Los Angeles
- 2008: East Meets West Interchange Overpass Parade
- 2009: Dome Colony X in the San Gabriels, New York City
- 2010: Something For Everyone, Aldrich Museum
- 2011: Composted Constructions, Den Haag
- 2012: Everton People's Park
- 2012: Princeton Student Settlement
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VII. books
- Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
- The Animal Estates Field Guides
- The New American Dream: Something For Everyone (PDF)
- The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive
VIII. writings
- '04: Green Museum
- '04: index interview
- '05: 1111 interview
- '05: Textfield
- '06: Humans Were Here
- '06: I Like Chinatown
- '06: Very Gay House
- '07: Control essay
- '07: Creative Time
- '07: Olympic Farming
- '07: Pin-up interview
- '08: Animal Estates
- '08: arcCA essay
- '08: Artforum
- '08: Bear Deluxe
- '08: CCA essay
- '08: Eco Art Blog
- '08: Edible Estates book
- '08: Journal of A & P
- '08: Manifesto Marathon
- '08: Pablo Internacional
- '08: Port interview
- '08: Public Art Review
- '09: Frieze essay
- '09: Frieze Talk
- '09: Guardian op-ed
- '09: IMA parade essay
- '09: Salon essay
- '10: ASLA interview
- '10: Bracket essay
- '10: Frieze essay
- '10: Landscape China
- '10: Little Joe essay
- '10: Perform. Art World
- '10: PF1 essay
- '10: Work Journal
- '10: X Initiative text
- '11: AAR Interview
- '11: My Gardening Story
VIIII. more info
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X. friendly links
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- AA Bronson
- ACP (Artist Curated Projects)
- Agency Architecture
- Alice Konitz
- American Academy in Rome
- Andrea Zittel
- Andrew Haeg (Public Insight Network)
- Anna Halprin
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- Center for Tactical Magic
- Center for Urban Pedegogy (CUP)
- Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution
- Chez Bushwick
- Circlesquare
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- Cooking Issues
- Crush Fanzine
- Dabls African Bead Museum
- Dan Haeg – Casual Profanity
- Dance Theater Workshop
- Department of Graphic Sciences
- Detroit Soup
- Dflux
- Eagle Street Rooftop Farms
- Edible Schoolyard
- Eileen Myles
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- Eve Fowler
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- Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
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- Knitknit
- Krysten Cunningham
- L.A. Urban Rangers
- Lisa Anne Auerbach
- Lize Mogel
- Los Angeles Cooperative Extension
- LTTR – Lesbians to the Rescue
- Lucky Dragons
- Macdowell Colony
- Machine Project
- MAK Center Los Angeles
- Malcolm Wells
- Mammut Magazine
- Matt Wolf
- Michael Pollan
- Mildred's Lane
- MOCAD
- Motown Review of Art
- Museum of Jurassic Technology
- My Barbarian
- Nero Magazine
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- Nils Norman
- Nina Beier and Marie Lund
- Oliver Sacks
- Pipilotti Rist
- Pollinaria
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- Yoshua Okon
XI. recent reading
- 2009.01: NUREYEV: THE LIFE by Julie Kavanagh, 2008
- 2009.08: THE POWER BROKER by Robert A. Caro, 1974
- 2009.08: WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING by Haruki Murakami, 2007
- 2010.02: HUNGRY CITY: HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR LIVES by Carolyn Steel, 2008
- 2010.08: ANNA HALPRIN: EXPERIENCE AS DANCE by Janice Ross, 2007
- 2010.08: BLACK MOUNTAIN: AN EXPLORATION IN COMMUNITY by Martin Duberman, 1972
- 2010.08: E.M. FORESTER: A BIOGRAPHY by Nicola Beauman, 1994
- 2010.08: RSVP CYCLES: CREATIVE PROCESSES IN THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT by Lawrence Halprin, 1969
- 2010.08: THE GIFT by Lewis Hyde, 1983
- 2010.10: ITALIAN JOURNEY by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816
- 2010.12: THE FOOD OF ROME AND LAZIO by Oretta Zanini de Vita
- 2011.02: GORDON MATTA-CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE edited by Elisabeth Sussman, 2007
- 2011.02: MALAPARTE: A HOUSE LIKE ME by Michael McDonough, 1999
- 2011.02: MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES ON WORDS * ART * MUSIC by Joan Retallack, 1996
- 2011.02: THE GLOBAL ARTWORLD INC: ON THE GLOBALIZATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART by Charlotte Bydler, 2004
- 2011.02: THE WORLD OF FOOD IN THE ROMAN COUNTRYSIDE by Oretta Zanini de Vita, 2001
- 2011.03: HOW TO IMAGINE: A NARRATIVE ON ART, AGRICULTURE AND CREATIVITY by Gianfranco Baruchello, 1984
- 2011.03: JUST KIDS by Patti Smith, 2010
- 2011.03: THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME: A GEOLOGICAL TOUR OF THE ETERNAL CITY, by Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello & Donatella de Rita, 2007
- 2011.05: LIVING THE GOOD LIFE by Helen Nearing, 1954
- 2011.05: URBAN UTOPIAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Robert Fishman, 1977
- 2011.06: A PATTERN LANGUAGE by Christopher Alexander, 1977
- 2011.06: THE CONSCIENCE OF THE EYE by Richard Sennett, 1990
- 2011.07: ROME, PROFILE OF A CITY, 312-1308 by Richard Krautheimer
- 2011.08: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE by Barbara Kingslover, 2007
- 2011.08: DEREK JARMAN: A BIOGRAPHY by Tony Peake, 2000
- 2011.08: FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen, 2010
- 2011.09: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR by George Orwell, 1949
- 2011.10: AT HOME: A SHORT HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE by Bill Bryson, 2011
- 2011.10: THE JOYFUL COMMUNITY by Benjamin Zablocki, 1971
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New Art
- Leave the Work Alone
  Let's set the background.Andre Lepecki:What dramaturgy as practice proposes is the discovery that it is the work itself that has its own sovereign, performative desires, wishes, and commands. It is the work that owns its own authorial force.This seemingly fairy-tale description of creation was once made clear for me by Alexander Kelly. Whenever working […]
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- After Fishing
  "Last will and Testament" by Mariusz Hermanowicz (with Zygmunt Hermanowicz) was an instant crush for me.After his father's death, Mariusz Hermanowicz discovers, among the things the father left, boxes filled with fishing lures of his father's own design. Some of the lures are finished, many seem more like prototypes, projects. There are a […]
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- Looking at the robots, I think
  David Lewandowski, going to the storeRobot maker Azusa Amino recently won the Robot Japan 2 Dance competition with his 23-centimeter-high Toko Toko Maru robot. - they are the un-ego, the dream of letting go of the source. They are a life whose source is the non-live, whose origin is not identical, so a different, non-human causality comes into place. The sou […]
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- The House
  This house which is almost gone. Which still has the lines and weight of a house, yet could very well be called landscape. This house which is a set of floors engraved with memories that no one you know could ever read. Things, as people, come and go, yet we believe them to be different, we invest what is left of our faith in this space or that. It's wh […]
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- The Political Sight - Konrad Pustoła's 'Views of Power'
  What do you see?This, here, is an image of power.Pure and simple, it is what a specific person with power sees. Out of the window. Every day.Some of the Views of Power, a project by Konrad Pustoła, could be postcards. They are annoyingly nice. Others - most of them, actually - seem violent in their chaotic setting.And so, the game begins - can you match the […]
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- How It Works
  You do things.You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what I'm doing, what my political take on this, for the moment now I just have a political in-take, the out is not political to my best knowledge. Fortunately, your […]
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- Sharing the Sensible (In a Rich Man's World)
  The thing is: I'm very excited about performance moving forward. And I love how it invades all sorts of territories. I do it, watch it, write about it. It's my cup of tea. That is precisely why I don't want to leave it with an "interesting experiment" tag. Experiments have their consequences, results, and it seems crucial not to stop […]
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- Allan Kaprow on installation and performance
  Now, I think those two words, installation and performance, mark accurately the shift in attitude toward a rejection or sense of abandonment of an experimental, modernist, position which had prevailed up to about, lets be generous, up to about 1968-1969, and began gradually becoming less and less energized. So, I think what you’re getting there is the flavor […]
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- Black Square: Malevich and The World That Wouldn't Die
  Here it is: the end of the world.I am standing in front of it, and it looks like shit.It is Kasimir Malevich's "Black Square", it hangs at the New Tretyakov national gallery in Moscow, and it is dirty, tired, bleak, so unimpressive it is embarrassing to see.And yet, that is the end.This can well be seen as the point where art enters the other […]
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- Four Propositions Concerning Art Blogging
  My first proposition is: Blogging is about being stupid.It is accepting that I do not know what I should know before starting to write. But wait! "Should know"? Let me rephrase that: blogging is accepting that there is no required knowledge to write. In part, it is accepting Beuys' affirmation that everyone is an artist. Everyone is an art-wri […]
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- Melting ears (on Cory Arcangel's two works)
  The one I liked was this:while the one that goes further is this:Both are fragments of works by Cory Arcangel.The difference between them is significant. The first one is a joke - it is a repetition, a trick played on the idea of reproduction or universality.The other one too. But the other one moves towards something else. It provides us with the doubt as t […]
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- What you like is to look
  What you like is to look.You like to suck it up in your gaze, you like to smear your innocent mind with the flesh of sight.What you like is to become dependent. To let go of the constructions and make them make you.This is the universe of the aesthetic. It is where you can always find a haven. Where you can let go of your constrained negotiations with what s […]
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- Five sentences concerning ghosts
  Both pictures by Ujin Lee, from the Dust series.There is never enough time or effort or vision to make sure things are fixed.We must suppose they are (or were) somewhere here, in the vicinity of the place we are (or were) standing, in the present continuous, within the limits of what we are ready to appreciate.I can hardly imagine a memory that has no stills […]
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- Alevtina Kakhidze - Revolutionary Obedience
  "Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questions about the motives of that construction." - Mike KelleyHere is how it went:Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze has been working on value and power for a […]
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- Take a break
  Remember Zimoun?Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo. […]
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Creative TIme
- Tom Sachs' SPACE PROGRAM: MARS Website Launches
  The new website for artist Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is live: http://tomsachsmars.com Don’t miss the Zine, Blog, and Videos page for rich media content from Tom Sachs and his studio. SPACE PROGRAM: MARS (opening May 16) is co-organized by Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory. […]
- Tom Sachs' SPACE PROGRAM: MARS Website Launches
  The new website for artist Tom Sachs’ SPACE PROGRAM: MARS is live: http://tomsachsmars.com Don’t miss the “Zine, Blog, and Videos” page for rich media content from Tom Sachs and his studio. SPACE PROGRAM: MARS (opening May 16) is co-organized by Creative Time and the Park Avenue Armory. […]
- IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT INTERNATIONAL: YEAR ONE
  On Wednesday, March 14, join artist Tania Bruguera in conversation with Creative Time’s Chief Curator Nato Thompson and Queens Museum of Art Director Tom Finkelpearl and Curator Larissa Harris as they review the first year of Bruguera’s ongoing Immigrant Movement International project in Corona, Queens. After the discussion, there will be a short question-an […]
- A MESSAGE FROM JIM HODGES
  Dear fellow Creative Time supporters, It’s that time of year when I stop to reflect on things for which I’m grateful: health; beauty (never enough of it!); a broadening spectrum of what we call art; the unexpected revolutionary spirit expanding in the world… And of course, Creative Time. Now more than ever, we need organizations like Creative Time, a groundb […]
- Donate and Steve Powers will write your "wrongs." And your "rights."
  This holiday season, give acclaimed artist Steve Powers your 2cents. When you make a tax-deductible contribution of $25 or more to our 2011 Annual Appeal, you get to tell us in two words what you think is “right” and “wrong” with the world today. In January, Steve will turn your woods into traffic-stopping signage in downtown Brooklyn. And, if you donate $50 […]
- EXPLORE THE LINK BETWEEN FOOD AND HISTORY WITH MICHAEL RAKOWITZ'S SPOILS PROJECT AT PARK AVENUE AUTUMN
  Now available at Park Avenue Autumn, Spoils—a culinary/art experience by artist Michael Rakowitz—marks the fourth and final artist-chef collaboration for 2011. Following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government in 2003, Iraqis have taken ownership of the symbols of his regime. Many of the opulent artifacts found in his fallen palaces are now sold openly in th […]
- JEANNE VAN HEESWIJK SELECTED AS RECIPIENT OF THE 2011 LEONORE ANNENBERG PRIZE FOR ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE
  “At a time when the pressures of the art market continue to increase, it is so important to recognize artists whose commitment and practice extends beyond the art world by transforming communities in need, engaging broad publics, and inspiring a younger generation of artists.”— Anne Pasternak As we always say at Creative Time, public art isn’t just heroes on […]
- LIVING AS FORM: OVER 100 ARTISTS AND PROJECTS, 25 CURATORS, 9 NEW COMMISSIONS, 1 OPENING WEEKEND
  Following the third annual Creative Time Summit, join us on Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25, as we kick off Living as Form—an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. Explore, read, eat, dance, discus […]
- SUMMER UPDATES FROM GHANA THINKTANK
  Since launching the Ghana ThinkTank Mobile Unit with Creative Time at the Festival of Ideas for the New City, the Think Tank moved to the Queens Museum for the Summer, collecting problems of Corona, Queens to be solved by a group of think tanks in the “Developing World,” including the Gaza Strip, Cuba, Serbia, Iran, Filipina workers in Lebanon, and incarcera […]
- CREATIVE TIME TWEETS CONTINUES WITH JILL MAGID'S #FAUSTOSWITNESS
  At 12:15 p.m. on January 21, 2010, a 24-year-old man named Fausto Cardenas fired several shots from a small caliber handgun into the air from the steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, without a clear motive. Jill Magid (@JillMagid)—who happened to be visiting Texas to research snipers—was an eyewitness to this mysterious, strangely tragic and poetic, s […]
E-Flux
- Search for Director
  The Board of the Serralves Foundation is seeking to appoint a new Director to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, an important Museum of Contemporary Art within an international context as well as the first institution of its kind in Portugal. Situated within the historic 18 hectare Serralves Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1999 […]
- stanley brouwn
  Curated by Nathalie Ergino, Director of the Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, assisted by Anne Stenne. stanley brouwn has been invited by the Institut d'art contemporain for a solo exhibition in which he will fill the entire exhibition space with new works. A historical figure in conceptual art, stanley brouwn is still extremel […]
- Simon Starling / Superflex and Ephemeropterae˜
  Turner Prize winner Simon Starling (born 1967) has been invited to work in collaboration with the Danish artists group Superflex to inaugurate and unfold the new Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary exhibition space at Augarten—a striking modern pavilion structure completed in 1957 as an artists' workshop—with a presentation of works from the TBA21 colle […]
- Punk, Ash and Holocaust
  Participants: Punk Movement from Craiova, Cristian Comosteanu, and Romeo Tiberiade Curated by Electroputere Punk, Ash and Holocaust is a project that highlights events and situations displaying different modalities of subjectivisation, freed from any form of cultural fetishism or artistic engagement. This project-exhibition documents three situations deeply […]
- Pink Caviar and Two Days Art
  Pink Caviar participating artists Ai Weiwei, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Sophie Calle, Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Eriksson, Simon Evans, Öyvind Fahlström, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Poul Gernes, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Shilpa Gupta, Jacob Holdt, Roni Horn, Elliot Hundley, Matthew Day Jackson, Chris Johanson, Isaac Julien, Jesper Just, Zilvin […]
- The State of Human Rights
  More than sixty years after the Declaration of Human Rights, the protection of human rights is still an urgent global issue. NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights is a major international contemporary art exhibition dedicated to human rights. It will chart the development of the human rights movement and its evolving discourse since the post-war era. NEWTOPIA […]
- Synchronies
  Sincronies. Projectes d'intervenció artística contemporània is a new public art project conceived and produced jointly for the province of Castellón by Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló and Universitat Jaume I. The goal behind the new project is to generate a both permanent and temporary art constellation in its geography. Our primary intention […]
- Pawel Althamer
  Museion in Bolzano is devoting a double event to Pawel Althamer (born Warsaw, 1967), the artist's first appearance in a public institution in Italy, with the solo show Polyethylene curated by Letizia Ragaglia and the performance project Common Task, Bolzano (2012), curated by Andrea Viliani. Polyethylene: science fiction meets Baroque A crowd of pale sc […]
- Panorama: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia
  The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is proud to present PANORAMA: Recent Art from Contemporary Asia, the first permanent exhibition that draws from SAM's contemporary art collection to reflect and document the changes Asian societies have undergone in the last two decades. In this era of rapid change, the artworks in this new series of exhibitions provide a […]
- Tensta konsthall: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ari Benjamin Meyers
  Visual artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and composer Ari Benjamin Meyers’ scenic walk through Stockholm and its surroundings traces a classic story in a current reality. The one-time only performance T.451 is inspired by Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), as well as the film version by François Truffaut (1966) with music by Bernard Herrmann […]
Metropolis Magazine Blog
- Lab Report: XXVIII
  New ways of envisioning architecture, design, and construction are being created at ITAC (Integrated Technology & Architecture Center) by a team of professors, students, and industry professionals. The lab focuses on what co-director, professor Ryan E. Smith calls a “building ecology.” Specifically, it centers on what many in the architecture and buildin […]
  Sherin Wing
- Something old, something new
  New York City’s Le Bernadin was the tres chic restaurant venue for a recent press luncheon held to announce the opening of the new Barnes Art Museum in Philadelphia. A narrow stairway off West 51st Street led up to a not very large room. Circular tables ringed with top-flight design journalists and editors were packed in like proverbial sardines. “I'd r […]
  Joseph G. Brin
- Nine Lives of Green
  Recently at the Living Future event in Portland, Oregon, I had an opportunity to explore “lives of green” with eight other women working in the sustainable design space, as it is often called. We followed the Pecha Kucha format (my first time with the 20-seconds-for-each-of-20 slides). Barbra Batshalom, a Boston-based “recovering architect” talked about her […]
  Kira Gould
- Q&A: Nina Rappaport
  Vertical Urban Factory Exhibit, Photo by Christopher Hall After a six-month run in New York City, Vertical Urban Factory, curated by Nina Rappaport, opened on May 11th and runs through July 29th at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). A longtime fan of the process of making things and the buildings that contain the manufacturing occupations, as we […]
  Susan S. Szenasy
- Tough Love
  John Edelman, the CEO of Design Within Reach, has no patience for self-indulgent design. Or, as he disparagingly puts it, design-for-design’s-sake. Unless a product merges beauty and marketability, the ultimate sweet spot, he’s just not interested. For our “So You Want to Be a Product Designer” story, we talked to creative directors at six American manufactu […]
  Derrick Mead and Martin C. Pedersen
- Made in America
  With a past life in corporate interior and architectural design in San Francisco, I have been aware of 3Form’s many uses as an interior manufacturing company for several years now. I had seen their products used again and again in our sustainable projects, but the image of a conference room divider using their organic Varia Ecoresin Interlayers, in which bea […]
  Kadie Yale
- Help Save NYC Historic Places
  What if, with a push of a button, you could save one of your favorite historic places? The Partners in Preservation need your help. They need you to press a button and help decide who should get $3 million. Some of the places on the list are really well known in New York and beyond; the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Gugg […]
  Ryan A. Cunningham
- The Ways We Work: III
  In my last post, I suggested that the ways we used to plan workspaces are no longer effective. Maybe they never were. I have several reasons for saying this. First and foremost is the fact that many organizations think of space allocation according to entitlement or status whereas they should consider designs that support the business of their business. Cer […]
  Jan Johnson
- Re-imagining Infrastructure
  Infrastructure is a major issue of out time, stretching across towns, cities, states, regions, and countries. Our current methodology of building and maintaining it is too expensive, too inflexible, and too ecologically damaging. If we hope to solve the numerous problems we face with energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and urbanized areas, we must com […]
  Neil Chambers
- Design as a Public Service
  http://youtu.be/VE86C5qPWLg At the University of Minnesota College of Design graduation ceremonies, on Saturday, May 12, John Cary, who received his BA in 1999 from the same school, delivered the 2012 commencement address. After thanking dean Thomas Fisher and the faculty of the educational institution that “has given me so much,” Cary started with his inaus […]
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BLDG Blog
- Vitamin C and Aloe
  Hidden in an article about New York City's first million-dollar parking space is the somewhat incredible fact that, up in the apartment building this parking space will be attached to, "the shower water will be pumped full of vitamin C and aloe" for the building's economically distinguished residents. Like the home vodka tap we joked abou […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Under Angeles
  Design writer Alissa Walker recently took a tour of L.A.'s original subway system, one whose tunnels are no longer in operation, though they remain down there— [Image: L.A.'s original subway, now walled-off beneath downtown; photo by Alissa Walker]. —bricked off and all but forgotten beneath buildings downtown. [Image:Photo by Alissa Walker]. Cue h […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- SubBrit
  I finally became a paying member of Subterranea Britannica this week, a website and historical organization whose interests (and influence) cast a long shadow over this blog's early years. Joining is £28 a year for overseas members and seems well worth it so far, having received my first issue of their internal newsletter, Subterranea, just last night. […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Secret Soviet Cities
  [Images: From ZATO: Secret Soviet Cities during the Cold War at Columbia's Harriman Institute; right three photographs by Richard Pare]. Speaking of Van Alen Books: earlier this week, they hosted a panel on the topic of "Secret Soviet Cities During the Cold War." These were closed cities or ZATO, "sites of highly secretive military and sc […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Perhaps it is not a city
  [Image: Michael Maltzan's Inner City Arts building, Los Angeles; photo by Iwan Baan]. I'll be speaking tonight, May 17th, at Van Alen Books with architect Michael Maltzan about his book No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Jessica Varner, previously discussed on BLDGBLOG here. The book includes inter […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Papercraft
  [Image: Wifi-blocking wallpaper from the Grenoble Institute of Technology]. 1) A collaboration between the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Centre Technique du Papier has produced wifi-blocking wallpaper: a printable electromagnetic shield that "only blocks a select set of frequencies used by wireless LANs, and allows cellular phones and other r […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Mega City Soundtrack
  [Image: A map of fictional mega cities, via 2000AD]. A short review in the most recent Wire discusses a new album by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury: a speculative urban soundtrack to Mega City One, a "post-apocalyptic sprawl covering the eastern seaboard of the United States" from Judge Dredd. "Portishead's Geoff Barrow and BBC soundtrack […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Water vs. World
  [Image: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; courtesy of the USGS]. In Charles Fishman's compelling exploration of water on Earth, The Big Thirst, there is a shocking statement that, despite the apparent inexhaustibility of the oceans, "the total water on the surface of Earth (the oceans, the ice caps, the atmospheric wa […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Lost Lakes of the Empire State Building
  [Image: Sunfish Pond]. Something I've long meant to post about—and isn't news at all—is the fact that there is a lost lake in the basement of the Empire State Building. Or a pond, more accurately speaking. After following a series of links leading off from Steve Duncan's ongoing exploration of New York's "lost streams, kills, rivers, […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Astrobiology and Drowned Nations
  There's a lot going on again this week at Studio-X NYC. Two quick things to put on your radar, in case you're near New York: [Image: NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild measures solar radiation, via NASA]. 1) Tonight at 6:30pm, we've got NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild coming in to discuss her work, from extreme environments here on Earth, […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Performing Mars
  [Image: Image via Karst Worlds]. An ice cave in Austria was recently used as a test landscape for experimental spacesuits and instrumentation systems—including 3D cameras—that might someday be used by humans on Mars. The Dachstein ice cave was chosen, Stuff explains, "because ice caves would be a natural refuge for any microbes on Mars seeking steady te […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Breaking Out and Breaking In Finale
  [Image: Poster design by Atley Kasky of Outpost]. Although I hope to post again about the specific topics to be discussed at this event, I didn't want to lose any more time in announcing the Breaking Out and Breaking In final public event to be hosted at Columbia University's Studio-X NYC on Monday, April 30, featuring a unique and exciting panel o […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Ephemeral islands and other states-in-waiting
  [Image: Temporary islands emerge from the sea, via]. In the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Sicily, an island comes and goes. Called, alternately and among other names, depending on whose territorial interests are at stake, Graham Bank, Île Julia, the island of Ferdinandea, or, more extravagantly, a complex known as the Campi Flegrei del Mar di Sicilia (the P […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Glass Hills of Mars
  More than 10 million square kilometers of landscape on the surface of Mars, a region nearly the size of Europe, is made of glass—specifically volcanic glass, "a shiny substance similar to obsidian that forms when magma cools too fast for its minerals to crystallize." [Image: An otherwise randomly grabbed image of Mars from the fantastic HiRISE site […]
  Geoff Manaugh
- Hydro-Electro-Musical Machinery
  [Image: Flow]. A floating tidemill on the UK's River Tyne has been filled with "electro-acoustic musical machinery," powered by the river itself. The building, a collaboration between Owl Project and Ed Carter, called Flow, is "a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel." The acoustic […]
  Geoff Manaugh
Huffington Post Green
- Rev. Malcolm Boyd: Dogs And Cats On Life's Journey
  Has a dog or cat been a genuine part of your life? Both have been companions of mine as body mates and soul mates...They accepted me with unconditional love. Who could ask for more? […]
  Rev. Malcolm Boyd
- NRC Chairman To Tour Michigan Nuclear Plant
  COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is scheduled to tour Entergy Corp.'s Palisades nuclear plant in southwestern Michigan... […]
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- Lucas Benitez: Field Notes on Food Justice: Why Your Local Grocery Store Makes Farmworkers Poor
  "Fresh and Fair from Florida"... Five words that would look so beautiful stamped on your next tomato purchase. Five words that would signify a revolution in agricultural working conditions. […]
  Lucas Benitez
- Stefanie Penn Spear: NPR Takes a Deeper Look Into Fracking Boom
  We need to educate our fellow Americans about the risks associated with continued use of fossil fuels and support policies that will transition our nation to relying on cleaner, renewable sources of energy. […]
  Stefanie Penn Spear
- Reporters Uncensored: Cizmic Change
  An evangelical minister for over 30 years, the Reverend Richard Cizik has been deeply criticized by the GOP and his faith-based community for supporting green climate initiatives. He is nevertheless deeply committed to getting his fellow constituents on his side. […]
  Reporters Uncensored
- Rocky Kistner: Report: Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline Will Raise Gas Prices and Cut Oil Supplies
  Despite all the industry hype over jobs and purported energy security benefits from building the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, a new report shows the mammoth Canadian tar sands pipeline will cut the amount of gasoline produced in the U.S. and jack up gas prices for American drivers. […]
  Rocky Kistner
- Report: Keystone XL Would Raise Gas Prices
  WASHINGTON -- The Natural Resources Defense Council on Tuesday released a report dispelling the myth that the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would lower... […]
  Lucia Graves
- 15 Ridiculously Adorable Baby Owls
  We're not sure if it's the wide eyes, fluffy down, tiny size or a combination of all three that makes baby owls so adorable, but... […]
  Environmental Graffiti
- The Near Annihilation Of America's Buffalo In Pictures
  Not so very long ago they ruled the North American plains from Canada down to Mexico, and as far east as the western boundary of... […]
  Environmental Graffiti
- Americans Eat More Vegetables Than 5 Years Ago, Study Finds
  More than 90 percent of Americans think equal access to fresh produce is very or somewhat important, according to a new survey by the W.K.... […]
  The Huffington Post
- Michael Brune: Solar Rollover Credits: The Right Thing for California
  Very quietly, California utilities are threatening to undermine the dream of widespread clean energy in our state. […]
  Michael Brune
- Baby Mountain Lion Shows Up For Work At Santa Monica Office Building
  Downtown Santa Monica looked a lot wilder than usual this morning thanks to the appearance of a little mountain lion. The baby beast was spotted... […]
  The Huffington Post
- Pollution-Hunting Robot 'Fish' Takes To The Sea
  LONDON (Reuters) - Robot "fish" developed by European scientists to improve pollution monitoring moved from the lab to the sea in a test at the... […]
  Reuters
- Michele Simon: Guide to Fighting Fast Food in Your Own Backyard
  There has never been a better time to get active and take a stand against the infiltration of fast food in your neighborhood. We certainly cannot wait for policymakers in Washington to protect the people. […]
  Michele Simon
- Tom Murro: Bette Midler Gets Lei'd by Mayor Bloomberg
  I know, this joke is like beating a dead flower, but it's nice 'schtick' coming from a man that is usually obligated to talk about things that make your eyes glaze over. […]
  Tom Murro
Pruned
- 72 Hour Urban Action in Stuttgart (and Imagining Kowloon Skyfavelas)
  (Stuttgart is calling!) You have just about a week to put a team together and vie for one of the spots in the next edition of the 72 Hour Urban Action competition, which the organizers bill as “the world's first real-time architecture competition.” If you can find only a couple of interested colleagues or no one at all, you can still apply as an individ […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Kerb 20
  It's that time of the year again when Kerb sends out another call for submissions. Overseen once more by an editorial staff of students at the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, this year's theme is Speculative Stories: Narratives in Landscape Architecture. Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are impo […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Harvesting at the Biogas Farm
  (Image via Sohu.com.) In one version, it's a woman from Binzhou in China's Shandong Province carrying a large plastic bag inflated with natural gas, tapped from a pipeline near some oil and gas wells. It's an illicit hack with “many latent dangers.” (Image via Sohu.com.) In another version, it's a woman from the coming era of radical sust […]
  Alexander Trevi
- A New Anti-Tsunami Archipelago for Japan
  (Image courtesy of Sako Architects.) Instead of protecting Japan's coastal cities from tsunamis with massive seawalls, a strategy hardly foolproof as evidenced by the spectacular failure of the country's flood barriers during last year's disaster, why not concentrate all that concrete into tower blocks and resettle everyone on top? Instead of […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Image of the (Leap Year) Day
  (While incarcerated for war crimes and crimes against humanity, a Nazi architect used to garden here.) […]
  Alexander Trevi
- What is (non-)essential knowledge for (new) architecture?
  For the next 306090 book, guest editor David L. Hays wants to know, “What is essential knowledge for architecture?” This frequently posed question targets fundamental principles of design, those basic criteria and priorities through which disciplinary stability is ensured. Yet, insofar as relevance is a core value of architecture, in both theory and practice […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Where is Alloura Zion?
  (Where the earth is the sky is the earth, where is Alloura Zion? Image courtesy of NASA. Source.) Read more » […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Gravity Base Stations
  (Possibly outdated data sheet for a gravity base station in JFK International Airport. Image courtesy of NOAA. Source.) When I first stumbled upon these poorly scanned data sheets of so-called gravity base stations, I thought they were actual “stations,” that is, actual gravity sensing devices that are constantly taking measurements of local geodetic conditi […]
  Alexander Trevi
- (Im)possible Chicago #31-40
  ((Im)possible Chicagos is a series of hallucinatory joyrides through one hundred and twenty five asynchronous Chicagos.) […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Mythologizing the Dredge Boaters
  (Steampunk terraformers draining a swamp. Image courtesy of Walkerton Area Historical Society. Source.) Once the cities established their beachheads, the dredge boaters and their mud-suckers entered the soft, defenseless womb-belly of the Great Dismal Swamp. There was an Empire to be made. (Photo courtesy of Bill Hewitt. Source.) Some began on the margins, g […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers
  (Vladimir Lukyanov's water computer, 1936. Image courtesy of the Polytechnic Museum, Moscow.) I only recently found out about Google's reverse image search functionality. Since then I've been busy feeding its search engine some of the more mysterious images that have been littering my archives for years, hoping finally to figure out what they […]
  Alexander Trevi
- The Provisional, Improvisational, Guerrilla, Unsolicited, Tactical, Temporary, Informal, DIY, Unplanned, Participatory, Open-Source Pavilion
  (Guerrilla grafters turn non-fruiting street trees into fruit-bearing ones. Via @nicolatwilley.) Here's your chance to have your work be included in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. The theme is “Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good.” This year's curators, from the New York-based Institute for Urb […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Guerrilla Depaving
  (Viva la hidrología!) Guerrilla depaving is an illicit form of urbanism wherein impermeable hard surfaces are wholly removed or perforated to reveal the underlying soil bed. This site preparation precedes the introduction of agriculture, ornamental gardens, cryptoforests and other pata-artisinal land-uses, which alleviate the urban heat island effect. Howeve […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Dispatches from the Sousveillance Zoo
  (Near-future geiger monkeys. Original photo by Koji Sasahara/AP. Source.) As reported by CNN and other venues, Japanese scientists apparently want to recruit wild monkeys to measure radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture, specifically in a mountainous area of the city of Minamisoma. Each animal will be outfitted with a collar containing a small radiation m […]
  Alexander Trevi
- Spill
  (Can anyone tell me who took this quite astonishing photograph, and perhaps the story behind it as well? I seem to recall seeing it in Colors Magazine, in one of their mid-90s issues. Unfortunately, I have no access to their back catalog at the moment. This particular image file came from a Tumbler site, which I've long since forgotten. It was one of th […]
  Alexander Trevi
Core 77
- Design-build a sound booth for KCRW's Sonic Trace Project
  Nothing makes a designer's day more than seeing his creation out and about. In last week's episode of KCRW's Design and Architecture host Frances Anderton tipped us off to a quick turnaround mobile design challenge that promises to take your work deep into unexplored Los Angeles neighborhoods and into dusty cities across the border. Producer P […]
- NY Design Week 2012: Vitsoe x Kinfolk (or, 'Less, But Better' x 'Ways & Means')
  It should come as no surprise that Vitsœ—a company that employs cycling enthusiasts on both sides of the Atlantic—were happy to host "Built to Last," an exhibition of beautiful bicycles by New York's own Kinfolk Studios. The short talk by Kinfolk co-founder Ryan Carney last Thursday was among the first events to mark the ICFF festivities in to […]
- 16bitghost 's Museum-Worthy Shrine to Every Home Videogame System Ever Made
  Thrones of Game The contents of this gaming room would make for a hip MoMA exhibition: Austin, Texas-based Pete, a/k/a gaming enthusiast 16bitghost, has built a functional shrine to virtually every home videogame system ever made. To outfit the room, you might expect the guy to make an Ikea run, pick up a half-dozen Expedits and call it a day. But we dig tha […]
- NY Design Week 2012 - ICFF: Symbol Audio
  Blake Tovin and Matt Richmond of Tovin Design Limited are furniture designers first and foremost, but as they're also huge audiophiles their newest line, Symbol Audio, might just be their biggest indulgence yet. So far there are three products in the line, the consumer friendly Tabletop HIFI, a luxe set of subwoofers that can plug into everything from y […]
- PUMA is seeking a Sr. Designer/Art Director, Brand Management in Boston, Massachusetts
  Sr. Designer/Art Director, Brand Management PUMABoston, Massachusetts PUMA is seeking a new member for their Marketing Team, within the Brand Management group. The Senior Designer will report directly to the Group Head, Brand Management. The successful candidate will direct and manage the production of the brand's creative materials combining influences […]
- NY Design Week 2012 - ICFF: Philippe Starck's Broom Chair for Emeco
  Fourteen years ago Philippe Starck and Emeco partnered up to produce a recycled aluminum chair that was designed to last 150+ years. "A great chair never should have to be recycled: it's made for life," said Starck. Called the Heritage chair, the entire collection is made from 80% recycle aluminum. In fact, Emeco is known as the aluminum chair […]
- Alternate Views of the Eclipse
  Image by NASA Earth Observatory We've all seen countless photos of solar eclipses, and readers in California, Japan or Australia may have gotten a look at Sunday's in person; but did you ever wonder what the results of an eclipse look like from space? The Large Picture Blog has images of earlier eclipses and their effect on the Earth, as shot by th […]
- NY Design Week: WantedDesign Student Challenge, Part 1
  When we checked-in with our student designers this Saturday at WantedDesign, they had just started on their challenge with the straight-forward parameters: make a light using laser-cut acrylic and 3M-donated films. Students representing six design schools from the United States and France were hard at work sketching, modeling and exchanging ideas on how to b […]
- London Underground: Fab Loves Tom Dixon Pop-Up Shop
  In case you can't make it down to the Bleeker Street Theater before tomorrow, no worries—you still have time to pickup your fave Tom Dixon find at Fab.com 's online pop-up for NY Design Week. Pickup the Offcut Fluoro bench or the peg stand in natural, black or white. Mirrorball Pendants are a steal! Act fast—some of the pieces are already sold out […]
- #FreeTAKESHI : Brooklyn Designer Arrested for Lighting Installation During NY Design Week
  Does this look like a bomb? Brooklyn-based designer Takeshi Miyakawa was arrested early on Saturday while installing his "I Heart NY" lighting project around Brooklyn. A bystander called the police bomb squad on account of "suspicious activity." As The New York Times reported on Sunday night, the installation was timed for NY Design Week […]
- Must-See Video: Gesture Control Accuracy Takes a Huge "Leap" Forward
  This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called Leap Motion released the demo video for their eponymous gesture control interface, which appears to be shockingly accurate: It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen.... This isn't a game system that roughly maps your hand movements. The Leap t […]
- Core77 Photo Gallery: Core77 OPEN, All City All Stars Exhibition
  From Broadway to Rockaway, Pelham to Freshkills, 8.2 million people call New York City home. On the occasion of New York Design Week 2012, Core77 takes a moment to survey the landscape of all five boroughs with an open call to designers to represent their hometown. Since its very beginnings, the city has been a trading grounds—a venue at the crossroads of id […]
- NY Design Week 2012: Looking Back at 20 Years of Kikkerland + Q&A with Founder Jan van der Lande
  We're pleased to present an abridged version of "20 Years of Kikkerland," a print piece commemorating their 'Vicennial' anniversary on the occasion of the ICFF, courtesy of our friends at the Dutch-via-NYC design company. Founder Jan van der Lande was happy to indulge us with the inside scoop on particularly memorable moments of the […]
- The North Face is seeking a Design Director (Action Sports) in San Leandro, California
  Design Director (Action Sports) The North FaceSan Leandro, California The North Face is seeking a designer with 10+ years of experience in the apparel industry. The Design Director will design market-ready products within a margin that meets the consumer fit and function needs for the target consumer, as well as establishing control-related standards and pro […]
- The Unique Toy Design Staff of Child's Own Studio
  Vancouver-based Wendy Tsao started Child's Own Studio, a home-based toy design studio with a twist: Tsao doesn't design the toys. Children do. Tsao's brilliant insight was to create one-off toys for a child modeled exactly on a drawing done by that child. [Children's drawings are] a wonderful expression of childhood [and] the starting poi […]
Inhabitat
- Cool Futuristic Robot Style Lamps by UM Project Showcased at Wanted Design
  Read the rest of Cool Futuristic Robot Style Lamps by UM Project Showcased at Wanted Design Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", eco design, green design, ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, local design, new york design week, sustainable design, um project, wanted design […]
  Helen Morgan
- Thunderclouds Are Increasing Global Warming By Retaining Pollution and Heat
  According to the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, thunderstorms could be contributing to global warming due to their ability to capture and retain heat. If true, environmental scientists may have to drastically adjust their climate models in order to take this in account. Read the rest of Thunderclouds Are Increasing Global Warmi […]
  Timon Singh
- Automobile Scrap Metal Transformed into Unique ReWreck Sideboard by Iannone Design
  Iannone Design have transformed sections of salvaged automotive panels into this stunning ReWreck Sideboard. Launched this week at ICFF in New York, the reclaimed sheetmetal furniture takes full advantage of the different colors and textures within the reused metal to create interesting, one-of-a-kind designs. Read the rest of Automobile Scrap Metal Transfor […]
  Helen Morgan
- Santa Eugenia Social Housing Aptly Deals With an Unfortunate Solar Orientation
  Read the rest of Santa Eugenia Social Housing Aptly Deals With an Unfortunate Solar Orientation Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", add+, affordable housing, bailo rull, bailo rull add, brise soleil, Daylighting, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, low income housing, santa eugenia […]
  Bridgette Meinhold
- PHOTOS: The Best Green Designs From ICFF 2012!
  Read the rest of PHOTOS: The Best Green Designs From ICFF 2012! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable furniture", "vertical garden system", Art of Board, broom lamp, david clarkin, dutch house closets, green design, green interiors, green products, headliner seat, ICFF, icff 2012, Inter […]
  Jill Fehrenbacher
- Alessandro Jordão’s Giant Lego Chair Debuts at “Fresh from Brasil” During NY Design Week
  For some designers it may be a challenge to be noticed among the vast number of inspiring designs shown across the city during NY Design Week, but with a larger-than-life chair constructed from Lego, Alessandro Jordão’s work was hard to miss. Jordão’s installation was part of a group show called Fresh from Brasil, which featured […]
  Lea Bogdan
- Out-of-Control Freighter On Course to Collide with Great Barrier Reef is Diverted
  A broken-down cargo ship in waters off the Australian coast drifted out-of-control towards the Great Barrier Reef recently, threatening one of the largest and most diverse ecosystems on the planet. The Great Barrier Reef, which is also a World Heritage-listed site and a recognized maritime nature reserve, was put in jeopardy by the stricken vessel […]
  Timon Singh
- BRC Designs’ Spineless Chair is Adorned with the Spines of Old Books
  Bibliophiles are sure to get a kick out of BRC Designs‘ new “Spineless” chair, which is made up of the spines of hundreds of old books. Spotted at ICFF this past weekend, the literally literary seat has a color-blocked design that references Mondrian. The designer, Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, explained that he obtained many of the […]
  Yuka Yoneda
- Reclaimed Cleveland’s Salvaged Furniture Shines at the ICFF
  Read the rest of Reclaimed Cleveland’s Salvaged Furniture Shines at the ICFF Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", eco design, green design, ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, new york design week, old growth lumber, re-purposed design, Reclaimed Cleveland, Reclaimed Materials, Recycled Materials, sustain […]
  Tafline Laylin
- Transform Bare Walls to Bright Indoor Gardens with the Versatile Urbio System
  Spotted at New York Design Week, we are in love with the Urbio, a system of mix and match modular planters and organizers that snap into place with high-strength magnets. The series of various sized containers allow for the creation of a personalized wall garden, an elegant centerpiece, or a space-saving solution for organizing your […]
  Lea Bogdan
- BRC Designs’ American Pipe Dream Chair and Table Are Made from a Maze of Copper Piping
  Read the rest of BRC Designs’ American Pipe Dream Chair and Table Are Made from a Maze of Copper Piping Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: american pipe dream, american pipe dream chair, “green furniture”, Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, BRC Designs, copper pipe chair, copper pipe table, design week, eco design, green design, […]
  Yuka Yoneda
- Ai Weiwei’s ‘Fragments’ Installation is Made of Wood Reclaimed From Qing Dynasty Temples
  Chinese artist Ai Weiwei‘s new politically motivated work ‘Fragments’ transforms salvaged wood taken from Qing Dynasty temples into a series of monumental installations. At first glance the works appear chaotic and jumbled – they are composed of dismantled sequences of pillars and beams – but from above Weiwei has recreated a unique 3D map of […]
  Helen Morgan
- The Best Green Designs From Wanted Design 2012!
  Read the rest of The Best Green Designs From Wanted Design 2012! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", eco design, green design, green interiors, green products, new york design week, ny design week 2012, sustainable design, sustainable products, wanted design […]
  Mike Chino
- Model Citizens Creates a Hub for Emerging Green Creatives at NY Design Week
  Read the rest of Model Citizens Creates a Hub for Emerging Green Creatives at NY Design Week Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: green design, green home decor, green products, independent designers, independent sustainable designers, model citizens 2012, model citizens nyc, new york design week, new york design week 2012, sustainable design, [. […]
  Diane Pham
- Grassy PicNYC Table Brings Al Fresco Dining to Your Living Room
  Read the rest of Grassy PicNYC Table Brings Al Fresco Dining to Your Living Room Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", "sustainable furniture", grass furniture, grass table, green design, green interiors, haiko cornelissen architecten, living furniture, new york design week, ny design week 2012, picNYC table, […]
  Mike Chino
Sundance Blog
- Lelo’s short film of vibrators at Cannes
  The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing right now (May 16-27) and one of its special guests is one of our favorite pleasure-object producers: the high end Swedish design company, Lelo. They're screening their very own short -- okay, it's a crummy commercial. But as with everything Lelo does, it's beautiful, sleek, glamourous, luxurious and i […]
  Em and Lo
- Top 10 gay sex scenes in mainstream movies
  Thanks to the Hays Code, gay characters were largely missing from the movies up until 1968. And even more recently than that, it was considered career suicide for a male actor to "play gay." These days, it's not hard to find gay characters in mainstream Hollywood films -- the gay best friend has become a rom-com staple. But the gay side kick, […]
  Em and Lo
- World leaders gather to solve econ…no, watch “football”
  What did you do this weekend? Well, it seems as though all of the important people in the world were either at G8 sleepover. Good times! Allegedly, the world leaders were discussing this economic pickle we still seem to be in. But, really, they were watching the Champions League final. It's kind of like the Super Bowl of European soccer. Or, as my Engli […]
  Michelle Byrnes-Carney
- Kristen Wiig’s final SNL spawns thousands of online tears
  This past weekend on Saturday NIght Live, the show said a final goodbye to cast member Kristen Wiig. It ended on a sweet note with Kristen holding back tears as she danced with her cast members and some SNL alums. The last dance was with Lorne Michaels who whispered in her ear, "If you don't return for another season on my show I will eat your firs […]
  Matthew Rodriguez
- Wes Anderson and Woody Allen save summer cinema
  Not that sequels prequels, slapstick comedies, superhero flicks, and action/adventure thrillers can't be intelligent, lol. But still, can we expect anything a cut above? Yes! Some warm-weather flicks are filtering in made by actual artistes with real aspirations, at least judging from the heady descriptions. Some of them are even coming before summer’s […]
  Michael Musto
- We’ve got Bill Murray’s candid Cannes photos
  Whether he's chauffeuring you home in a golf cart or sneaking up behind you in public, Bill Murray commands your attention. His mere presence at the 65th Festival de Cannes is no different. He is certainly the most important member of director Wes Anderson's party posse. They're debuting their latest collaboration, MOONRISE KINGDOM, and while […]
  Sundance Channel
- This week’s top trending videos: Starring food buffet drama!
  If you had a stressful week at work just know that it was nowhere near as bad as what the Wisconsin resident featured in video number three had to go through. And here's hoping you have a relaxing weekend, like the cat in the video number five. So, read for more trick shots, Sponge Bob and a little gear-shift supercut. […]
  Matthew Rodriguez
- Naked news: “mankini” to be worn during Olympics Opening Ceremony?
  This week, homophobia is down, gaydar is up, female objectification is over the top, and home HIV tests are around the corner. Oh, and a mankini is on the way: […]
  Em and Lo
- From Cannes to Hollywood: Women still shut out of film jobs that don’t require cleavage
  image via Slant Magazine That springtime film festival somewhere in the south of France is now fully under way, and we're sad to spread the word: there are no female-directed films in competition at Cannes this year. Not that things are much better here in the US. Only five percent of the past year's big, studio films were helmed by ladies. What gi […]
  Dan Heching
- Change some lives and learn some stuff…with a click
  Which is cooler? Changing the lives of at-risk kids through filmmaking or historical preservation via video? Trick question! They're both awesome. And totally amplified by ReelWorks. Their Teen Filmmaking program recently got together with Partners in Preservation and American Express to make videos of 16 historic sites around New York City. […]
  Michelle Byrnes-Carney
- Sundance Institute selects 13 projects for 2012 June directors and screenwriters labs
  Sundance Institute and the Time Warner Foundation announced today the seven artists selected for the 2012 Sundance Institute | Time Warner Foundation Fellowship Program. Each Fellow was identified by one of the following core programs of the Institute: Documentary Film Program, Feature Film Program, Film Music Program, Native American & Indigenous Film P […]
  Sundance Institute
- Now playing on Sundance Channel: Avoid Europe at all costs
  I've got these neighbors who love "cycling holidays". They go to different parts of Europe and pretty much spend ten days doing their own little Tour de France, or wherever. They love it because they get to see "the real countryside" and stay at little farms and inns while burning off all of the crazy food and wine they consume. Well […]
  Michelle Byrnes-Carney
- How to spot a hipster in the wild
  How is it possible that hipsters have been around since the 1940s? (At least according to the OED, which equates the word with "hepcat." Er, thanks for that.) Even stranger still, how is it possible that hipsters have been around since the 1940s and we still can't exactly put our finger on what one is? In recent years the hipster even became a […]
  Em and Lo
- 2 thoughts on 5 films: The critics are trying to get along with THE DICTATOR
  Going to the movies should never, ever be stressful (unless, of course, you’re planning on seeing the latest Lars von Trier flick). You want to see something new and relevant so that you can talk it up with your know-it-all friends. But you don’t want to sit through the one film that everyone thought would be great, but…isn’t. So here is our formula, simplif […]
  Dan Heching
- Film intelligence: Cannes do
  Every week there are dozens of film news stories. Every week, we read them all and bring you the five most important ones in the single most important blog post you’ll ever read (today [at this moment]). This week: the south of France, a bus in the Bronx, and heavy competition for Jobs. […]
  Matt Singer
Designboom
- AQSO arquitectos office: connecting riads
  residential buildings continuously wrap to generate internal courtyards for inhabitants, mediating the urban historic district, adjacent residences and public park of casablanca, morocco.read more […]
- aston martin DB7 transformed into a zagato
  coined the 'zagato evocation', a modern-day, aston martin V12-engine 'DB7' vehicle has been converted to resemble the iconic 'DB4 zagato' of the 1960s, in both its exterior and interior.read more […]
- jorge canete: calligraphy
  a swiss castle built in 1760 is renovated into a style that bridges its classical and traditional typology into a contemporary and modern interior design. read more […]
- tim richter: rack360
  a storage unit where its shelves fan out in 360 degrees allowing the piece to be placed in a variety of settings. read more […]
- nendo: bamboo steel table for han gallery
  taiwanese bamboo basket weaving techniques are translated into a stainless steel version of the craft, where thin slices of the metal are joined and woven into a furniture piece. read more […]
- zhaochen wang + ran she: celebration of wuhan from dispersion to aggregation
  a methodology for resolving severance and a zoning system philosophy of conquering the unyielding with the yielding a celebration of re-thriving the citys inimitable folk-customs.read more […]
- hamana takeshi + iwagaki yuya: temotoasobi
  a product design that uses the packaging of chop-sticks to create a rest thorough simple graphics and origami folding. read more […]
- i:m: desired sync - global crisis + design ver.1.5
  a collection of designers and artists in new york city team up to develop projects addressing currents global issues in a thought provoking exhibition.read more […]
- modulorbeat: golden workshop
  positioned within the bustling cathedral square, the temporary pavilion's asymmetrical cross-form plan is oriented within the plaza to frame inward-looking views from its four wings.read more […]
- raw color: nowness martin creed x pierre gagnaire
  the eindhoven-based creative studio has developed a new still-life photographic series picturing two deconstructed dishes by pierre gagnaire of london's sketch restaurant for artist martin creed. read more […]
- leap 3D motion control
  capable of detecting the motion of fingers, pens, and other objects to an accuracy of 1/100th of a millimeter, 'leap motion' greatly expands the gesture-based ability of kinect for use in gaming, writing, and navigation.read more […]
- be optimistic and thankful: sealed watch
  a timepiece which captures memories of the users by creating personal identity marks worn on their hands. read more […]
- max lamb: urushi lacquer bench + stool
  the textured chiseled surfaces of the seating furniture contrast the sleek, glossy urushi lacquer finish of the designs. read more […]
- isaac cordal: cement bleak - cast shadow strainer faces
  this urban art intervention in london features several metal mesh cooking strainers molded into the shapes of faces. as light filters through the objects, three-dimensional seeming shadows are cast upon the pavement. read more […]
- adrian smith + gordon gill: dancing dragons
  referencing the eaves of traditional korean pagodas, miniature towers are applied to the exterior of this pair of structures, meeting the building mass with dramatic diagonal facets.read more […]
We Make Money Not Art
- Links for 2012-05-21 [del.icio.us]
  The Dwarf Zoo is a growing collection of insularly dwarfed animals Often when a species gets stuck on an island their size changes. Sometimes they grow larger like the giant turtles on the Galapagos. In Dwarf Zoo however we are interested in insular dwarfs; island animals that have evolved to a strikingly diminuitive size. Perhaps these evolutionary precurso […]
- Subversion in the Arab Art world
  There's an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, homosexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous 'Arab world', whatever image politicians and the medi […]
  Regine
- #A.I.L - artists in laboratories
  The first episode of the radio show about art & science i'm recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don't live in London. This week i'm talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder […]
  Regine
- An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything
  Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-05-15 [del.icio.us]
  Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian 'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there' […]
- Links for 2012-05-13 [del.icio.us]
  London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre […]
- Sony World Photography Awards 2012
  object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to […]
  Regine
- My Name Is Janez Janša
  The film that inspires you to google your name again.... My name is Janez Janša is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša continue […]
  Regine
- American Dreamers
  Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue […]
  Regine
- The Chronocyclegraph
  The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind. Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of t […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-05-03 [del.icio.us]
  2012 Olympics: Kabul. Baghdad. London. Three to avoid this summer The Olympics have become an Orwellian parody of what happens when a world agency blackmails a government aching for prestige into spending without limit. Not one defence spokesman has come up with a plausible scenario for the jets and missiles. The latter have a range of just three miles and a […]
- The Immortal, life-support machines keeping each other alive
  A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering continue […]
  Regine
- Compulsion
  In Prager's part film noir, part fashion shoot work, heroines wear impeccable make-up, pose as if they were in a Hitchcock movie, breathe through an atmosphere worthy of David Lynch, and are submitted to ordeals inspired by the images of crime photographers Weegee and Enrique Metinides. The stories might take place in Hollywood-like settings but they pr […]
  Regine
- Links for 2012-04-29 [del.icio.us]
  Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements | World news | The Observer Hilary Smith, Co-op member and Boycott Israel Network (BIN) agricultural trade campaign co-ordinator, said the Co-op "has taken the lead internationally in this historic decision to hold corporations to account for complicity in Israel's violations of Palest […]
- Book review: Utopia & Contemporary Art
  Utopia has become a controversial concept, spanning the field between the belief in an ideal society and the dystopian nightmare. Within the last decade, the contemporary art scene has witnessed a return of utopia and utopian thinking. Whether detectable as an impulse, critically reassessed as a concept, or cautiously or daringly articulated in a specific vi […]
  Regine
Infranet
- Bracket 3 [at Extremes]
  Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building […]
  InfraNet Lab
- All Creatures Great & Small
  [Animal Architecture Awards 2011] Our Friends at Animal Architecture are launching the inaugural Animal Architecture Awards. The competition seeks "exciting projects that engage the lives, minds and behaviors of our alternate, sometimes familiar companion species — insects, birds, mammals, fish and microorganisms – each one with unique ways of world-ma […]
  Neeraj
- The New Gold and its Unconventional Reserves
  [Utility Poles from the Ottawa Area] Barrick Gold’s recent bid to acquire copper miner Equinox Minerals suggests that the bullion giant sees copper as the new gold. Both minerals are currently valued at record highs. The price of gold has doubled in the past two years on account of investor fears of inflation and political turmoil. […]
  Maya
- Cycling Infrastructure
  With warmer weather just around the corner those of us who didn’t brave cycling through the winter months are preparing our two-wheeled transit for another season. We are not alone. In cities across North America bicycle ridership is on the rise. Montreal and New York City have both increased their ridership by 35 and 28% […]
  Maya
- New Northern Cartographies
  [New Northern Cartographies, Phyllis Lambert Seminar, 25-26 February, at the Univertsity of Montreal.] The 2011 Phyllis Lambert Seminar, organized by Alessandra Ponte, is centered on the theme of the North. It is titled “New Northern Cartographies” and we are honored to be among the architects, artists, film-makers, geographers, and climatologists included i […]
  Mason
- Infrastructural Opportunism, A Manifesto
  [Mimi Zeiger presents an Infrastructure of Manifestos at Storefront on 28 January, 2011.] Thanks to those that came out to Storefront for Art and Architecture on a chilly Friday in late January to celebrate the publication of Pamphlet Architecture #30: COUPLING and to hear provocative / entertaining manifestos as delivered by some of the brightest minds [... […]
  Mason
- Fourth Natures: Mediated Landscapes
  [Fourth Natures Conference] InfraNet Lab is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a conference entitled ‘Fourth Nature: Mediated Landscapes’ at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, in Cambridge, ON, this Friday, Feb. 4th and Saturday, Feb. 5th. The conference brings together scholars and practitioners working at the disciplinary intersec […]
  Lola
- Postcards from a Future
  [Scenario: The iconic City office tower is now high-rise housing. Originally converted into luxury flats, the block soon slid down the social scale to become a high-density, multi-occupation tower block. The Gherkin now worries the authorities as a potential slum. Refugees from equatorial lands have moved north in search of food. They make their […]
  Neeraj
- Ecological Reading
  [The New City? Photo published in Ecological Urbanism by Agnes Denes] As the year winds down, I wanted to touch on two books – one that was released a few months ago and one to be launched… any minute- that may be of interest to our readers. The first is a recent publication from the GSD entitled […]
  Neeraj
- Call for Submissions: Almanac 2, Bracket [goes soft]
  [bracket goes soft!] We are excited to be launching the second almanac of bracket with our fantastic team of Actar, Archinect and graphic designers, Thumb. We are also thankful of the generous support from the Graham Foundation. Bracket 2 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate physical and […]
  Neeraj
The official weblog of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
- A December 2011 Conference on Roman Architecture in Memory of William L. MacDonald, FAAR’56 (1921-2010)
  Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli. Credit: Gjon Mili (LIFE/Google) It was on 12 July 1921—precisely 90 years ago today—that noted architectural historian William L. MacDonald (FAAR’56) was born in Putnam, Connecticut. His death in March 2010 deeply touched his numerous friends, colleagues, and former students, many of them linked by their connections with the Americ […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Remembering AAR Trustee Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
  Artist Cy Twombly, as the 2006 recipient of the AAR’s McKim Medal, which he himself had earlier designed Rome resident and beloved American Academy Trustee artist Cy Twombly died 5 July 2011 aged 83. Many obituaries worldwide have appeared, including that of Randy Kennedy inThe New York Times (in its full version here). Remembers AAR […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- On Tuesday 28 June, A Book Presentation of ‘Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art 1500-1900′
  Four years ago (19-21 June 2007), the American Academy in Rome hosted a conference co-organized by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute for Art History that explored the collecting of religious art in and of Italy. On Tuesday 28 June 2011 at 5 PM the Academy hosts the […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome, a Conference on History and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean (Wed 15-Thu 16 June 2011)
  Whether it is climate, or the use and overuse of timber resources, or the extent and effects of urbanization, or a host of other issues, the history of the Mediterranean environment in antiquity is full of unresolved debates. The intention of the conference History and Environment in the Ancient Mediterranean is scarcely to resolve these […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome, American and Spanish Academies Present ‘Dialogue: Two Projects of Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti’
  Internationally-renowned artist Antoni Muntadas brought two Janiculum neighbors together on Tuesday 7 June 2011, when the American Academy in Rome and the Real Academia de España en Roma united to present two Muntadas events as well as a new project by Italian artist Giulio Squillacciotti. At 6 PM, Muntadas spoke in the AAR Lecture Room […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- A Whirlwind Week in Review: Annual Events in Late May for AAR Fellows, Trustees (Part 1)
  Fellows’ Open Studios, Wednesday 25 May 2011 It was five full days, but still it seemed like a whirlwind when the AAR’s Board of Trustees made their annual visit to Rome from 25 May to 29 May. They convened formally in committees and as a whole, took a good look at the institution they support […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- From 25-28 May, the AAR Presents the Fellows’ Annual Events in the Arts: Open Studios, Reading, and Concert
  Three days in late May—Wednesday the 25th, Friday the 27th, and Saturday the 28th—see one of the Academy’s oldest and most consistently rewarding traditions, the annual presentation of work by current Rome Prize Fellows in the AAR’s School of Fine Arts. On Wednesday 25 May (6-9 PM) the Academy’s Open Studios in the McKim, Mead […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- In Rome on 24 May, Trustee John R. Clarke RAAR’95 Delivers the 2011 Friends of the Library Annual Lecture
  One of the undisputed highlights of the Academy’s year in Rome is the   Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library (FOL) Lecture. This year the lecture is dedicated to the memory of Christina Huemer, Drue Heinz Librarian Emerita, who served as a spirited leader of the AAR’s Arthur and Janet C. Ross Library for fifteen […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Looking Back at Galileo’s Gianicolo Anniversary (2): ‘Conversations That Matter’ (07.04.11)
  On Thursday 7 April 2011 the American Academy in Rome hosted a public program on “Science and Faith” in its Conversations That Matter series. Academy Director Christopher S. Celenza (FAAR’94. pictured above at left) discussed the interrelationship between scientific and religious inquiry with bestselling author Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, astronomer at the […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
- Fellows Explore Aqueducts at Vicovaro, and (with AIAC) under the American Academy
  The Anio gorge at Vicovaro. Photo: current Fellow Casey L. Brown It may well become an annual ritual. On 30 April, archaeologist Gianni Ponti—veteran Advisor to the American Academy in Rome and a dean at Rome’s IES—once again brought a somewhat incredulous group of AAR Fellows to the Roman aqueducts near Vicovaro (45 km northeast […]
  tcbr@rci.rutgers.edu (Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome)
MiglioraRoma
- Fermiamo la distruzione di Villa Borghese: petizione email
  sopra: Villa Borghese "invasa" dai Tir per la preparazione di Piazza di Siena 2011 Come l'anno scorso questo Blog si mobilita per l'ennesimo scempio che si sta compiendo in questi giorni nel cuore verde della Capitale: il Concorso ippico a Villa Borghese.Le gare dei cavalli durano solo quattro giorni (24-27 maggio), ma La Villa storica vi […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Hortus Urbis Domenica 15
  Ricevo e pubblico:All'Hortus Urbis, l'orto antico romano nel Parco dell'Appia Antica, proseguono le attività nell'orto aperte a grandi e piccini che si ripeteranno tutte le domeniche a seguire fino a giugno.Domenica 15 aprile le attività previste sono:Dalle ore 10.00 attività nell'orto, Alle ore 10.45 registrazione e merenda. Dalle […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Diciamo ad Alemanno: No alla privatizzazione di acqua e servizi!
  sopra: un'immagine dal sito www.dilloadalemanno.itRicevo e pubblico:"Come forse sapete è in discussione al Comune di Roma una manovra di bilancio che se approvata rappresenterebbe un colpo al cuore ai referendum di giugno e un vero e proprio sfregio a volontà popolare e democrazia. La Giunta Alemanno sta infatti mettendo in vendita un ulteriore 21 […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Alemanno: basta affissioni selvagge (?)
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Alemanno cerca di giocarsi le ultime carte per le elezioni del prossimo anno.Ieri mattina, presso gli Studios De Paolis di via Tiburtina, il Sindaco ha presentato, insieme a numerosi assessori della sua giunta e a molti rappresentanti del mondo della politica, della cultura e dello spettacolo, la nuova rete di associazioni "Rete […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Domenica 25 Marzo: Hortus Urbis sull'Appia antica
  Ricevo e pubblico: COMUNICATO STAMPA Roma 16.03.2012 Prenderà l'avvio il 25 marzo HORTUS URBIS il primo orto antico romano della capitale nel cuore dello splendido scenario del Parco Regionale dell'Appia Antica con una grande festa aperta a tutti, grandi e piccini, presso l'ex Cartiera Latina a via Appia Antica 42 nell'ambito delle iniz […]
  MiglioraRoma
- 15 Marzo: Convegno “Roma sceglie sostenibile” - Scriviamo all'Assessore
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Gentili Signori,Roma Capitale ha aderito al Patto dei Sindaci, un accordo che impegna le città d’Europa a ridurre, entro il 2020, le emissioni di CO2 del venti per cento.A tale scopo l' Assessorato capitolino all’Ambiente ha redatto un Piano d’Azioni per l’Energia Sostenibile (PAES) che contempla gli interventi necessari per aume […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Guerra alle affissioni abusive!
  sopra: affissioni abusive in Piazza Augusto Imperatore da parte della Giunta ComunaleLa nostra città è invasa dalla pubblicità, gli ultimi dati ufficiali parlano di ben 220.000 metri (220 km!) di pubblicità presente all'interno del territorio del nostro Comune.E' una cosa indecente, per di più perchè parliamo di una città storica, in cui lo spazio […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Scriviamo al Presidente dell'Ama per i rifiuti zero
  Ricevo e pubblico:"Il Movimento 5 stelle fin dalla sua nascita ha come visione di riferimento la condivisione delle "buone pratiche" e la loro messa in rete. Guardare alle esperienze pratiche positive realizzate altrove e provare a replicarle, adattandole al contesto, è parte del nostro dna. Una di queste riguarda come affrontare praticamente […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Giovedì 17 Novembre: Decoro Day
  Giovedì 17 novembre, presso l'Aranciera, nella sede dell'Assessorato all'Ambiente in Piazza di Porta Metronia 3 si svolgerà Il Decoro Day, al quale sono invitati a partecipare tutti i cittadini e blogger attivi nella salvaguardia del decoro della città. La giornata inizierà alle 11 del mattino, tra i vari interventi, quello in cui prenderà la […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Il "Piano Pullman" del Campidoglio non convince nessuno
  sopra: il prospetto dei costi in euro che sostengono i pulman turistici per circolare a RomaL'Assessorato alla Mobilità del Comune di Roma ha risposto (in copia visibile!) a vari cittadini che avevano scritto contro l'attuale invasione della Capitale da parte dei pullman turistici:"Gentile cittadina/o, il Piano Pullman varato dall'Ammini […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Cartelloni: la Giunta Alemanno è parte incivile
  immagine da Repubblica Ricevo dalla Presidenza dell'XI Municipio e pubblico:Comunicato del 03 novembre 2011“E’ una tragedia e una vergognosa metafora. A Roma si muore schiantandosi su un cartellone abusivo che viola il Codice della Strada, come qualche decina di migliaia di obbrobri simili. La Giunta Alemanno lo sa e invita l’operatore economico a spos […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Bando per servizio civile con scadenza 21 Ottobre
  Ricevo e pubblico:Cara Martina,Per chi ha tra i 18 e i 28 anni è possibile prestare servizio volontario per un anno presso l'Associazione Luca Coscioni grazie a un progetto di "Servizio civile nazionale" finanziato dallo Stato. Di seguito trovi tutte le informazioni nel dettaglio. Grazie, Marco Cappato (Associazione Luca Coscioni) e Simone S […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Sabato 8 Ottobre Manifestazione a Riano contro la nuova discarica
  sopra: Riano, veduta aerea di dove dovrebbe sorgere la discarica dei rifiuti romani Ricevo e pubblico:Data: Sabato 8 Ottobre ore 8:45Luogo: Riano (bivio via Tiberina).Ormai è certo il Commissario Straordinario all’individuazione del sito per il dopo Malagrotta, Prefetto Pecoraro, ha previsto a Riano (via Flaminia – area nord di Roma) il luogo dove realizzar […]
  MiglioraRoma
- L'Atac: inadeguata ai disabili
  da Youtube. un filmato che mostra l'accessibiltà del sistema di trasporto pubblico a ChicagoRicevo e pubblico:"Spett.le Atac,Sono una disabile in carrozzina, Vi Scrivo per denunciare che le vostre rampe per i disabili sono spesso rotte perché la manutenzione è nulla. Quando quelle poche volte funzionano, sono gli autisti a non saperle fare funziona […]
  MiglioraRoma
- Zappata Romana: orti e giardini condivisi a Roma
  Ricevo e pubblico, visto che si tratta di una bella iniziativa. "Gentile Redazione, Le scriviamo per segnalarle Zappata Romana. Si tratta di una mappa on line che censisce 70 realtà di orti e giardini condivisi a Roma con un prevalente carattere di socialità e di creazione di spazio pubblico. Per ognuno una foto e una breve descrizione. Chi prende spun […]
  MiglioraRoma
La Repubblica
- Smartphone come strumenti Un concerto per Mac e Android
  In scena a Latina un'esibizione con musiche di Rota, Cage, Petrassi, Varèse, poi i brani vengono rielaborati da iPhone, iPad e simili. Grazie ad applicazioni...storie correlateL'altra America senza regole dove lo spionaggio è businessLeap 3D, un Kinect col turboWindows 8, addio a "Aero"Addio vecchio lento Wifi arrivano i nuovi standardPed […]
- Finanziamento, sì all'articolo 1 che dimezza i rimborsi elettorali
  Passa il taglio del 50 per cento dei soldi ai partiti. Respinti invece gli emendamenti della Lega e di alcuni deputati Pdl che puntavano all'abrogazione dei...storie correlateCrolla il centrodestra, Grillo trionfa a Parma Sette ribaltoni, centrosinistra in forte crescitaChi rappresenta il male del NordGrillo attacca Bersani: "E' quasi morto […]
- Nuove Br, tensione durante il processo gli imputati attaccano il legale: espulsi
  Un'avvocatessa trentenne aveva rifiutato il patrocinio d'ufficio a Davanzo dopo la rinuncia di quest'ultimo alla difesa. E in aula gli imputati sono tornati ad...storie correlateMonti nelle zone colpite: contestazioni "Emergenza, stop a pagamenti fiscali"Parma e il sindaco grillino Le radici di un successoPedofilia, nella direttiva C […]
- "La mafia uccide, il silenzio pure" Ragazzi da tutta Italia sulla nave della legalità
  Nel ventesimo anniversario di Capaci, studenti di ogni età in viaggio per Palermo. A bordo anche alcune compagne di Melissa, la sedicenne uccisa nell'attentato...storie correlateLaureati alle prese con la crisi "Pronti a andare all'estero"Un esercito di studenti senza borsa di studio "In 145mila ne hanno diritto, ma non l'avrann […]
- Della Valle lancia l'allarme "Calcio distrutto dai violenti"
  Il patron del club viola si pone degli interrogativi sul futuro: "Un gruppo di 'fessi' distrugge questo sport, bisogna verificare se ha ancora senso investire" […]
- Primo oro azzurro A Scozzoli i 100 rana
  Il nuotatore romagnolo ha conquistato il titolo europeo con il tempo di 1'00''55: "Vittoria dedicata a Dale Oen". Nella stessa gara bronzo di Mattia Pesce. La...storie correlateIl Coni ha scelto la Vezzali Sarà portabandiera a Londra"Che emozione portare la bandiera Rappresento un paese che non si arrende" […]
- Authority, voto alla Camera rinviato al 6 giugno Fini: "Renderò pubbliche le candidature"
  Il presidente della Camera chiede massima trasparenza dopo la decisione presa a maggioranza dai gruppi della Camera, contraria la sola Lega, di spostare la...storie correlateCrolla il centrodestra, Grillo trionfa a Parma Sette ribaltoni, centrosinistra in forte crescitaChi rappresenta il male del NordGrillo attacca Bersani: "E' quasi morto" Il […]
- Taranto, Stefàno sindaco alla festa con la pistola
  storie correlateMonti nelle zone colpite: contestazioni "Emergenza, stop a pagamenti fiscali"Parma e il sindaco grillino Le radici di un successoPedofilia, nella direttiva Cei nessun obbligo di denunciaPaola Concia e i capelli bianchi "A 18 anni credevo di essere malata"Nuove Br, tensione durante il processo gli imputati attaccano il lega […]
- Stop ai ritocchi al seno per le minori approvato disegno di legge sulle protesi
  Passata all'unanimità alla commissione Affari sociali della Camera, la registrazione obbligatoria per le protesi e la chirurgia a fini estetici sulle ragazze... […]
- Paola Concia e i capelli bianchi "A 18 anni credevo di essere malata"
  La vita (non sempre facile) della paladina dei diritti dei gay in Parlamento. "Quel faccia a faccia con mio padre". E col partito di MARCO PASQUAstorie correlateMonti nelle zone colpite: contestazioni "Emergenza, stop a pagamenti fiscali"Parma e il sindaco grillino Le radici di un successoPedofilia, nella direttiva Cei nessun obbligo di d […]
- Sussidi, colonnine e sconti le città che credono all'auto elettrica
  Dall'Agenzia internazionale per l'energia l'elenco degli esempi virtuosi per la diffusione della mobilità sostenbile. Tra le 16 amministrazioni citate molta... […]
- Sciopero del consumo benzina L'Aci lancia la provocazione
  Il 6 giugno mobilitazione di piazza contro il caro carburanti. Sticchi Damiani: "Aumenti di oltre il 20% in un anno. Il problema sta nelle troppe accise, che...storie correlateUn milione di dollari per un box auto....Truffa specchietto, che piaga Arrivano le finte ferite […]
- La fuga vincente di Izaguirre Rodriguez, una difesa tranquilla
  In attesa delle grandi montange, succede poco tra i big verso Falzes, con lo spagnolo che resta in maglia rosa. Va via un drappello di dieci uomini: la spunta... […]
- CICLISMO / GIRO D'ITALIA Izaguirre fuga vincente Rodriguez resta in rosa
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- GB, donna al comando della nave da guerra: è la prima volta
  storie correlateNiagara, tenta il suicidio: salvo dopo un volo di 55 metriAlbania, tragedia alla gita scolastica bus nel burrone: morti tredici studentiTokyo, la torre tv più alta del mondoNatalia Juarez, la candidata in toplessVandalo ricopre di vernice quadro osceno di Zuma […]
La Corriere de la Serra
- Il sindaco con la pistola? Bufera sul web foto video
  Taranto, la foto di Ippazio Stefàno (Sel) dopo la vittoria sul candidato di Cito […]
- «Sei uno zombie». «Stai più sereno» Veleni a distanza tra Grillo e Bersani
  Botta e risposta […]
- Eterologa, Consulta ai tribunali: ogni governo può vietare la fecondazione
  Rimessi gli atti ai tribunali per valutare la questione alla luce della sentenza della Corte di Strasburgo del 3 novembre 2011 […]
- Europei di nuoto: Scozzoli d'oro nei 100 rana
  Impresa del vice-campione del mondo che ha precedutosul traguardo l'ucraino Dymo e l'altro azzurro Pesce […]
  Redazione Online
- Multa di 20.000 Euro al Napoli per i fischi all'Inno di Mameli
  Prima della finale di Coppia Italia erano piovuti copiosi dalle curve dell'Olimpico durante l'esecuzione di Arisa […]
  Redazione Online
- Melissa, applausi e lacrime|
  L'addio a Mesagne alla ragazza. Assemblee e incontri dei ragazzi all'istituto Morvillo Falcone. Vertice in procura […]
  Redazione Online
- L'Inter prende Palacio Il Napoli: «Cavani via solo per offerta folle»
  Il presidente rossoblù Preziosi: «Ha chiesto di essere ceduto»di Monica ColomboScriviDella Valle e i tifosi violenti: ha senso investire nel calcio? […]
- Brindisi, rilasciato il presunto killer «Un incubo, io innocente»
  Scagionati i due fratelli su cui si concentravano i sospetti […]
- Atteggiamenti sospetti a bordo Deviato il volo da Parigi agli States
  L'Agenzia per la sicurezza sposta l'atterraggio da Charlotteal Maine: «L'aereo è stato accolto dalle forze dell'ordine» […]
- Brad Pitt, killer ironico contro il capitalismo foto
  Non convince «Killing Them Softly» […]
- Le banche italiane lasciano la City, cedono le quote della Borsa di Londra
  Intesa Sanpaolo e Unicredit mettono sul mercato l'11% del London Stock Exchange, proprietario di Borsa Italiana […]
  Paola Pica@paolapica
- La prima capsula privata Dragon in volo verso la stazione spaziale
  Lanciata in perfetto orario con il razzo Falcon 9 da Cape Canaveral. È in viaggio verso la stazione orbitale ISS […]
  Giovanni Caprara
- Cannabis terapeutica Gli equivoci da evitare
  Riflessioni dopo la recente apertura della Regione Toscana.La diffidenza nasce da un malinteso […]
  Ruggiero Corcella
- Le librerie Waterstones venderanno i Kindle
  Accordo tra Amazon e la catena di librerie inglese (300 negozi) […]
- Per la prima volta una donna al comando di una nave da guerra
  Il capitano di corvetta Sarah West, 40 anni, sarà il numero uno della HMS Portland. La donna è in Marina dal '95 […]
  Redazione Online
White House Blog
- President Obama Returns to Joplin
  President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address to the graduating seniors of Joplin High School at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, May 21, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) Speaking tonight to the first group of students to graduate from Joplin High School since a tornado ripped through the Missouri city one year a […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- White House Office Hours: A “To-Do List” That’ll Create Jobs and Help the Middle Class
  Over the past few weeks, President Obama has traveled around the country to talk to Americans about a set of common sense initiatives that'll create jobs and help the middle class. The President is calling on Congress to act on a to-do list that will: help more Americans save money on their mortgages; invest more in clean energy and small businesses; he […]
  <a href="/author-detail/45">Kori Schulman</a>
- Joplin: Remember, Rejoice, Rebuild
  Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the deadly tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri, killing 161 and displacing thousands. Tonight, President Obama will deliver the commencement address to the Joplin High School class of 2012 -- the first group of students to graduate since the storm. You can watch his remarks live at 9:15 PM ET. To mark the a […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- #LatismAtTheWH – Latinos Active in Social Media Visit the White House
  To engage with Latinos active in social media, the White House Office of Public Engagement held a briefing for LATISM bloggers with Senior White House and Administration officials. Over 75 people from across the country attended the event at the White House to discuss a diverse range of issues important to the Latino community. Take a look at the tweets sha […]
  Ari Isaacman Astles
- NATO Summit in Chicago: Day Two
  President Obama wrapped up the second and final day of the NATO Summit in Chicago on Tuesday. In the morning, he participated in a meeting with leaders from the 50 nations that make up the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan to discuss the next step in the transition of power there—setting a goal for Afghan forces to take the lead for comb […]
  Megan Slack
- White House Hangout: Small Business Week with SBA Administrator Karen Mills
  Throughout the next few days, we will celebrate our nation's entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. At the U.S. Small Business Administration, we have the great privilege to work with many amazing small business owners -- so we asked them to share their stories in a short video that demonstrates how their small business makes a difference in […]
  Karen Mills
- Startup Stories: JOBS Act Expands Opportunities for True Investments
  Ed note: In honor of Small Business Week, StartUp America is highlighting success stories from American enterpreneurs Stockbox Grocers is a startup out of Seattle, WA that places neighborhood grocery stores throughout urban areas to increase access to fresh produce, essential staples, and good meals. Stores are tucked inside empty storefronts or reclaimed sh […]
  Carrie Ferrence and Jacqueline Gjurgevich
- President Obama Attends NATO Summit in Chicago
  President Barack Obama, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and North Atlantic Council leaders pose for a “family” photo at Soldier Field during the NATO Summit in Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama was in Chicago today for the first day of the NATO summit, a gathering of leaders from the 28 […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3699933">Megan Slack</a>
- Watch Live from the NATO Summit in Chicago
  This week, leaders from the 28 member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will gather in Chicago for a summit aimed at discussing international security and the war in Afghanistan. This will be the 25th time NATO has held a summit and the first time the United States has hosted the event since 1999. It will also be the largest such event in t […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- Wrapping Up the G8 Summit at Camp David
  This weekend, the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia joined President Obama at Camp David for the annual G8 Summit. The leaders met to address major global economic, political, and security challenges, including energy and climate change, food security and nutrition, Afghanistan’s economic transition and transitions taking […]
  Megan Slack
- Putting Twitter’s “Do Not Track” Feature in Context
  This week, we got some terrific news about new ways individuals can protect their privacy on the internet. Twitter announced it will support the new Do Not Track feature in web browsers, giving users one-click control over whether or not Twitter keeps track of which websites they visit. This is an important step is part of a larger Obama Administration stra […]
  Danny Weitzner
- Weekly Address: Congress Must Move Forward, Not Back On Wall Street Reform
  President Obama discusses the reforms to Wall Street that he put in place to protect consumers and make Wall Street play by the same set of rules -- and calls on lawmakers to finish implementing these reforms so that we can prevent excessive risk-taking and help create an economy that is built to last. Transcript | Download mp4 | Download mp3 […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3336903">Matt Compton</a>
- Weekly Wrap Up: Courage and Sacrifice
  A quick glimpse at this week on WhiteHouse.gov: Fight for Your Seat: President Obama traveled to New York City to deliver his first commencement address of the year at Barnard College, one of the famous “Seven Sisters” private female liberal arts colleges. HIs first piece advice to the graduates was: “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table […]
  Sarah Berlenbach
- By the Numbers: 1 Billion
  Approximately 1 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic hunger-- a prolonged, life-threatening lack of food. Hunger threatens the health and well-being of a nation’s citizens, and increases a country’s risk of democratic failure, rioting, violence, and civil conflict. It costs developing countries approximately $450 billion per year in lost GDP. Poverty […]
  <a href="/author-detail/3699933">Megan Slack</a>
- President Obama Welcomes French President Francoise Hollande to the White House
  President Barack Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President François Hollande of France in the Oval Office, May 18, 2012 (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama today met with French President Francois Hollande for the first time when the newly-inaugurated leader stopped at the White House in advance of the G8 Summit which starts tonig […]
  <a href="/author-detail/475">Colleen Curtis</a>
Associated Press
- Eurozone warned 'severe recession' looming
  PARIS (AP) -- The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from dragging down the global economy.... […]
  By GREG KELLER
- After bombing, somber Yemen marks National Day
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Grieving Yemenis held somber ceremonies Tuesday to mark the country's National Day following a suicide bombing a day earlier that killed nearly 100 soldiers and deeply shook the faith of many people in the nation's future.... […]
  By AHMED AL-HAJ
- Indian passenger train rams freight train; 25 dead
  HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- A passenger train rammed into a parked freight train and caught fire before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more.... […]
  By OMER FAROOQ
- UN nuclear chief : Deal with Iran reached on probe
  VIENNA (AP) -- Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday.... […]
  By GEORGE JAHN
- Private supply ship rockets toward space station
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.... […]
  By MARCIA DUNN
- Joplin commemorates anniversary of deadly tornado
  JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A day of solemn remembrances and forward-looking celebrations is planned Tuesday as Joplin commemorates the anniversary of a tornado that ripped the city in half.... […]
  By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
- 10 Things to Know for Tuesday
  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):... […]
  By The Associated Press
- Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital
  BEIRUT (AP) -- A bomb that apparently targeted a restaurant in the Syrian capital killed at least five people, the state-run news agency said Tuesday, as activists reported intense clashes between army defectors and soldiers in the restive north.... […]
  By BASSEM MROUE
- Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks grow
  NEW YORK (AP) -- The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.... […]
  By STEVE PEOPLES
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  CHICAGO (AP) -- A long weekend of economic and security summits was heavy on stagecraft and light on surprises.... […]
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- one afternoon, recently
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- wallflowers
  we've been working on a lot of new pieces for the shop in the past few weeks- and we're really excited about these new stacking bracelets (we have a second version in the works - stay tuned). they're just right on their own or to add to pieces you already have- because every great wrist party needs a few wall flowers too.VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV […]
- so many
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- *************** yes************
  we visited their old studio last summer and posted about the brilliance that is Ina Grau, but it wasn't until this past weekend that we got to see the first full collection from these two dynamos -Luisa Fernanda Garcia-Gomez and Crystal Quinn. we'd been dreaming of the shoes they would make and finally seeing the new collection was so good... beaut […]
- dullDiamond goes to joshua tree (w/ Big Things)
  late this winter we finished our second order for the online shop, Big Things. a little while later, this mysterious palm tree image appeared in our inbox along with a note from rebecca (the mastermind behind Big Things). she'd scooped up all the new dullDiamond goodies and was headed to Joshua Tree to photograph them. we were jealous. and excited to se […]
- dream playgrounds
  we bookmarked this post a while back and it's just stuck with us. 2nd graders at Blue Grass Elementary in Iowa, schemed up their dream playgrounds and we think these same kids should do some urban planning. from here via an ambitious project collapsing^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ […]
- made these while listening to grimes
  it's a fun thing to be able to create when the moment strikes and it just so happens that last night the stars aligned - made 4 more pieces that we're putting into the shop right now. go see, they're pretty sweet. all stacked up or all alone.+ some items are on mega sale+ we ate some salted licorice doughnuts the other day (the baby made us do […]
- ... changing things up ...
  - the shop has a bit of a new look - come by and see all the bright and bold for yourself -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ […]
- NOW ---
  some favorites of whats currently in the shop. we're totally down with the variety. bits:snippity doo-dahthe occasional hatplants perfect multicolor ceramic objectmmm^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ […]
- we were busy this weekend- more new
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On October 12th, 2010, THE TORRE ARGENTINA ROMAN CAT SANCTUARY…

two of the resident cats greeting tourists at Torre Argentina

…was a highlight of my walk today, where I greeted a few of the circa 250 cat residents of some of the oldest temples in Rome, now the site of an organized urban cat refuge where they are fed, cared for and protected in the inaccessible recesses of ruins dating from 300-400 BC and the site the assassination of Caesar in 44 BC. (website)

Author: Fritz Haeg on October 12, 2010
Category: animals, Rome
Tags: animals, cats, Rome

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