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Tokyo! Visual Metaphors

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Tokyo! is a movie composed of three stories developed by different directors, under the premise of locating the plot in the Japanese capital. The French Michel Gondry and Leo Carax, and the Korean Joon-ho Bong, gave live to this interesting production, creating a kind of visual tryptic of Tokyo city. (more…)

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The Coming Revolution in Audio Design

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Design is not merely about changing our objects, but about changing our lives. It is not merely about improving the appearance or utility of our surroundings (more…)

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Still Radical: Schindler’s Design for Living

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Rudolph Schindler’s Kings Road House once stood out because, in an era that prized prominence, it settled unpretentiously into the landscape. Now, the house stands out precisely because it doesn’t stand out. (more…)

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Billboards and posters– Hidden potential in urban artifacts

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Billboards in today’s city life are an embedded part of the urban landscape. In a high traffic city one finds more billboards than the number of trees. (more…)

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Robert Frank captures “THE AMERICANS”

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Even the most ardent flag-waver is forced to concede that – sometimes – the most insightful examinations of a particular culture or society are produced by outsiders, people who peer at us from a perspective we can never share. (more…)

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Fate or Free Will? Exploring Visual Style and Story Structure in Slumdog Millionaire, City of God, and Chungking Express

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire opens with a question:

Jamal Malick is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it? (more…)

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Unemployment or Funemployment?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Maybe you haven’t lost your job — yet. But the chances are constantly rising that you probably know someone who has. And, while the loss of somewhere to go from 9 to 5 can be devastating (more…)

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Architecture and Being

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A few years ago, a girl sat in front of me and recounted her experience of the Thermal Baths in Vals, Switzerland. The conversation went something like this: (more…)

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Doodling Art with WeWillDoodle

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

If artists were to have some quasi-phobia of anything, it would perhaps be the fear of blank space. A white wall or a blank page of a notebook would probably trigger some inner outrage, (more…)

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