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Crosby Beach Liverpool
Very nice article, very nice video, very nice
concepts, very nice everything
Im going to tell you about why I became a
sculptor, and you may think that sculptors, well,
they deal with metal, they deal with objects, they
deal with bodies, but I think, really, what I care
about most is making space, and thats what Ive
called this talk: Making Space. Space that exists
within us, and without us.
Keep reading at: http://complexitys.
com/art/making-space/#.UqEFb40tfwj
Thanks to Hagit Pincovici for the link!
Antony Gormley, Making
Space
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Mural.ly
Today, I was given this link: https://mural.ly/
Something described as: "Capture, brainstorm and
organize ideas with your team. Just like being in
the same room".
I was asked for an interview, hence I used it right
away, to test and check it out.
Very nice tool. I like it very much!
Here my first test: https://mural.ly/track?
type=view-link...
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San Francisco, CA, United States
A very interesting article (courtesy of Giannino
Malossi):
We stood in an airy San Francisco warehouse,
staring at two plastic cups of gleaming
mayonnaise.
A golden retriever snored lightly in a patch of
sunlight on the floor as Josh Tetrick, the 33-year-
old founder of Hampton Creek Foods, waited for
me to scoop up the fluffy, effulgent goop with a
chunk of bread. Tetrick's team of food scientists
had tried making mayonnaise without eggs no less
than 1,432 times. This formula was the 1,433rd.
Keep reading at: http://www.motherjones.
com/.../beyond-eggs-meat-josh-tetrick
Can Silicon Valley make fake
meat and eggs that don't
suck?
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Milan
Fiddling with PS touch (3)
Here the third one (see posts below).
The full collection of the first 18 drawings will
become a special notebook for Design 101 people
this coming Saturday...
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Milan
Fiddling with PS touch (1)
Last night I dowloaded this nice app for the iPad:
PS touch.
It's Adobe's photoshop, tablet version.
Very cool stuff because finally, you use photoshop
with your finger.
I did some tests and experiments.
Then I worked on a specific technique. To use
existing drawings of a project I am working on,
and then adding some illustrations/drawings made
by other people.
Ghosts. Comments. Desires. Things I can't explain
in an explicit language.
Things I don't even know myself...
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Milan
Fiddling with PS touch (2)
Here another one (see post below).
They are early tests and experiments.
To learn how to use the tool.
Very nice. Very promising...
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Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
Antony Gormley's Blind Light
I have to admit that I have mixed feeling toward
Antony Gormley's works.
Most of them, I don't like or they don't trigger
much emotion or anything in my mind. But some
of them, are really special and I get lost in their
worlds.
Blind LIght is one of them:
http://www.antonygormley.com/sculpture/item-
view/id/241#p0
http://www.theguardian.
com/arts/gallery/2007/may/15/1
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Tate
In the last days, I crossed ms Emin works several
times.
For strange reasons, at least three people I know,
sent me links related to her. It is always nice to
spend some times in her vicious and fragile
universe. I like.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tracey%
20emin%20drawings
Here above: Tracey Emin, "Albert, Bert and Andy (I
couldn't stop it)", 1997.
Albert, Bert and Andy
(I couldn't stop it)
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Sassuolo
Hihickster's Illustrations
Today I was (once again) in ceramic world.
Apart from the ceramics (I will report on that
later), I had the chance to spend some time with
Yulya Besplemennova.
She showed me all the tricks she does on her
tablet with Adobe Photoshop Touch.
Very nice images (the one above is an example).
Follow her work via Instagram: @hihickster
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Molino Dorino MM
Square is more!
All in all, I have to admit that I love the brutal
architecture of Molino Dorino subway station...
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Molino Dorino MM
Another nice view of Molino Dorino's landscape...
...i've seen things you people
wouldn't believe...
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Via Cascia
Some More Experiments...
Needless to say that I keep exprimenting with this
PS touch.
Lots of filters, lots of things, quite a nice
compliment to Paper 53.
Paper 53 & PS touch working aside, and you can do
a lot of interesting things...
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San Fernando Valley City of Reseda
Thanks to Zahra Zemmouri for the best comment
on Design 101:
i was trying to explain to a friend the subject of
the course, how it was organised etc
He had trouble understanding what was the link
with learning about design. After describing some
of our lessons, like how to handle a project,
search, he came up with this comparison:
"So you're like in karate kid when you learn how to
fight by cleaning a car?"
ps.
in case you forgot about the movie, here we go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDi3an8WgN4
So you're like in karate kid
when you learn how to fight
by cleaning a car?
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Basingstoke, United Kingdom
Crowd Design
I am looking for references and examples related
to "crowd design".
Not crowd-sourcing. Not crowd-funding.
#crowddesign.
I know all I need to know about https://www.
mturk.com/mturk/, I have a full list of all kind of
exploitative websites like http://www.
designcrowd.com/
Of course, I know all the details about http://en.
wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk (image above)...
What I am looking for are examples of big group of
people tackling and/or addressing a given design
brief.
Any idea?
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MC Lauppe: first thing I can think of is googling for
'(creative) groupthink' (which led me to osborn
(without parnes, this time):
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http://www.newyorker.com/...
/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lehrer
http://www.wiley.com/...
/addtopics/addtopic_s_01e.html
Here are 3 practical links: spyrestudios.com
http://www.dexigner.com/.../General-
Design/Communities.html
http://www.memphis.edu/...
/SUMMIT_PROCEEDINGS_March_2011.pdf
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Daniele Mancini: The first example into my mind
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
/Egyptian_pyramid_construction
Also http://improveverywhere.com/missions/the-
mp3-experiments/
http://improveverywhere.com/.../25/the-mp3-
experiment-eight/
but also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
or http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
also some experiments in moviemaking assembling
one minutes of shooting from million of people ...
Life in a Day http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Life_in_a_Day_(2011_film)
All this sounds superinteresting!
Some keywords:
COMMUNITY (Identity + Context) - SHARING -
COLLECTIVE - RELATIONS
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vs
CROWD - MASS - MOLTITUDE
a book:
A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of
Contemporary Forms of Life by Paolo Virno
Another relevant project (the kind of thing that
Aprile loves). The most beautiful and interesting
http://www.mersenne.org/
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Alessandro Mininno: http://www.drawingblog.net/
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html
http://www.typophile.com/node/3296
se mechanical turk allora anche http://www.
thesheepmarket.com/
http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/rep...
/69/manes_emmalee.php
http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/
http://eatock.com/project/thank-you-
photographs/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yVxS9ZSnk
questo irrilevante ma bellissimo lo stesso http:
//www.jasperelings.info/video/flash-player-
camera
http://www.thebubbleproject.com/
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Stefano Mirti: Thank you thank you!
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Thanks to MC Lauppe, Daniele Mancini, Alessandro
Mininno.
Here an interesting article written by Florian
Schmidt: http://florianschmidt.co/for-a-few-
dollars-more/
As Alessandro pointed out, Aaoron Koblin is a true
superstar
http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html
http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/
Massimo Banzi (via Twitter) suggested: http:
//www.quirky.com/
This could be useful (from: http://crowdsourcing.
typepad.com/)
The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act
of taking a job traditionally performed by a
designated agent (usually an employee) and
outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large
group of people in the form of an open call.
The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open
Source principles to fields outside of software.
Here, from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Crowdsourcing_creative_work)
Crowdsourcing creative work (CCW) is an open call
to the crowd for novel and useful solutions.
Crowdsourcing may be appropriate when experts
are in scarce supply, multiple diverse ideas and/or
contextual insights are needed.
CCW may or may not be technologically enabled.
Recent advances in technology have supported
greater participation in and new types of
crowdsourcing creative work. Advances may
create new platforms that draw together
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participants, or enable new forms of coordination
that allows multiple participants to contribute
jointly to a creative task.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
On Twitter @joseph_grima says: @stefi_idlab
checked P2P Foundation?
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Titouan Russo: Thinking of, it brought back to
memory the ongoing project by Ai WeiWei and
Olafur Eliasson, Moon, which in this sense can
relate crowd design to collaborative design on a
larger scale. http://www.moonmoonmoonmoon.
com/#sphere Is this what you're thinking of?
Also the Berlin Wall, all the tags on it are a sort of
crowd design too!
http://www.moma.org/...
/2013/soundings/artists/10/works/ This project to
source sounds from all over the world, presented
this year at the MoMA in NYC
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New York, NY, United States
Hysterical Literature
Hysterical Literature is a video art series by NYC-
based photographer and filmmaker Clayton Cubitt.
It explores feminism, mind/body dualism,
distraction portraiture, and the contrast between
culture and sexuality. (It's also just really fun to
watch.)
Launched in August of 2012, the video series
immediately went viral, and has been watched
over 20 million times in 200 countries.
http://hystericalliterature.com/
Thanks to Cristiano Pistis for the link!
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Dublin, Ireland
All Those Friendly People
Funeral Suits - All those friendly people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j4l_NdkYMQ
More at: http://www.theguardian.com/...
/apr/28/new-band-funeral-suits
Thanks to Iva Na Langstrumpf for the link!