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DON’T MAKE FUN OF OTHERS

Monday, December 16, 2013

Throwing back to our launch-screening a couple of weeks back, one question: did Marina make You cry?
If you didn’t, it’s my obligation to bad taste that I recommend you take some reformatory lessons from the Marina Abravomic Made Me Cry tumblr.  The grandiloquence of empathy will persuade a few milligrams of salt water from the [...]

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ALTERNATIVE MAPS

Friday, November 29, 2013

There were times when Angela Merkel had problems with maps, too . Considering that, one should not be harsh on the others. No more comments…

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EVOLUTION

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Before and after: Tuba Babuna in 2008 and 2012
Some months ago antievolutionist show girls of Adnan Oktar in Turkey were introduced to the world by Amsterdam based artitsts Pınar&Viola in Dazed Digital. What happens when an antievolutionist evolves, and turns into a hybrid being without even recognizing? See, evolution exists! Whilst claiming Darwin was wrong [...]

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WIND MAPS

Monday, November 5, 2012

Nature, of course, is amazing and violent and beautiful and many more things, as we all know. In the wake of hurricane Sandy ravaging the east coast of the US, see a live data visualisation by Fernanda Vegas and Martin Wattenberg of where the winds blow right now, and I could just stare at that [...]

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BOOM

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Complicated emotions while hearing this incredible voice of Antony… Isn’t that Marina who is standing near the door at the left side? Oh yes it is!

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YES BUT NO

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The new Koi Klub happens every month on the 11th, regardless of the day of the week. If that date doesn’t ring any bells, then you just need to look up any news site today to find out why. Because, in many ways, today is the anniversary, even though for Koi Klub it isn’t, but [...]

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MÄRZTAGE

Saturday, September 17, 2011

While Fukushima seems to have disappeared from the news, I now see it cropping up in all kinds of unexpected corners: in the pages of Purple, on blogs, on the shelves of art book stores. One great book I came across, however, was artist Thomas Neumann’s diary Märztage.
Having lived in Tokyo for several years, he [...]

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from a wide angle

Thursday, September 8, 2011

This week a host of writers have come forward to say something about the events of 11 September 2001, and to provide some kind of account of the events since. This one looks at the event obliquely. Is it is easier to write when you aren’t staring into the abyss? Or is it just that a [...]

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YOU HAVE TO SMASH THEM UP

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Destructive transmutation in the penumbra of the new Olympic Stadium on the tenth anniversary of the most influential destructive event of the 21st Century. Scrap Club takes place by a site that has probably seen the most destruction and rebuilding done in London since World War II. These grounds shall now also bear the fall [...]

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HOW TO MAKE A SPOON FROM A CARTON

Monday, April 25, 2011

Olive is a clever site from Japan that shares designs, food and ideas that help when living in disaster areas. Olive offers tutorials on making spoons from old milk cartons through to turning an aluminum can into a lantern.

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