L'Enjeu Capital(es) - Les Métropoles de la grande Echelle - Centre Pompidou Paris

Já vem tarde, mas mais vale tarde que nunca. Umas fotos de quando estive em Veneza para a Bienale 2008.

Better late than never: some pictures of the Venice Bienale 2008.

Genial... Obrigado Guilherme. São posters criados por Albert Exergian.

CREATED OUT OF A LOVE FOR POSTERS, MODERNISM AND TELEVISION, THERE WASN'T A CLIENT OUT THERE TO COMMISSION SUCH A JOB SO AUSTRIAN DESIGNER ALBERT EXERGIAN WROTE HIS OWN BRIEF AND CREATED THIS SELF INITIATED SERIES OF POSTERS THROWING ALL OF THE ABOVE INSPIRATIONS INTO THE CREATIVE MELTING POT.

Muitos não são imediatas se não se tiver colado nas séries. De resto... XIS!

Depois de Jimmy Choo é a vez de Sonia Rykiel colaborar com a H&M.

O mini site está simples e e bastante original (+ vídeos + imagens).

# 24 do ano pelo last.FM

E se Leadytron e M83 se juntassem criando músicas dançáveis?

O álbum é daqueles que se estranha ao princípio mas que depois se entranha de repente...

Too close for comfort!

seen first in: thecoolhunter

I want one!!!

Não vou fazer grandes comentários. Apenas digo que fiquei hipnótisado com este tema. Não sei de quem é a autoria mas penso ser de Blue Mitchell (pass: jazzdisposition) [ou rs]. Chama-se "Alone, Alone And Alone" e ouvi pela primeira vez num álbum chamado Sakura Sakura da autoria de Hideo Shiraki Quintet + 3 Koto Girls. Muito bom, é o meu comentário.

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Boy who studied architecture but now works on writing greeting cards meets girl -> Boy falls in Love -> Girl Doesn't -> Boy gets dumped

500 Days of Summer

Mais uma comédia romântica, pensei. Tinha visto uma entrevista ao Joseph Gordon-Levittno Jimmy Fallon. Este último disse ter adorado o filme. Ainda não vi o Late Night com o Fallon muitas vezes, mas além de ser grande ass-kisser, parece-me ter um gosto duvidoso... pela cara. Mas gostei. É mais uma comédia romântica. Mas diferente, com actores interessantes (a mim interessam-me, pelo menos) e com uma banda sonora brutal! A ver!

Roses are red, violets are blue... Fuck you, whore!

Or... An Architecture of Unintended Consequences

Utopia

Failed utopias are easy targets for tabloids, cynics and pragmatist alike. Corbusier’s Radiant City, Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City, the Amish Village, and the benign dictatorship of Butan – utopias seems more dysfunctional than functional, more flaw than awe. Is it no surprise that we’ve stopped believing in them? Insight is 20/20 vision. “I told you so” - the future critiquing the past. But if we’ve abandoned the utopian project, if so few of us believe in it, than where do we find hope? The failure of utopia, it could have been a trigger for a lack of nerve. But instead of retreating into conservatorism, a moderation of our desires and ingenuity, we ask the question: does dystopia offer a viable alternative? Dystopian visions offer us compelling imagery, from Ballard to Blade Runner, from Brazil to brutalism, the terrifyingly beautiful – the sublime is always more potent than the picturesque. Dystopia is often a utopia, except for one fatal flaw that undermines the whole scenario. That one flaw is a reality check to our most idealistic dreams - a peaceful world where people live blissfully until being exterminated at the age of 30; a perfect world that’s been totally fabricated for primetime TV; a perfect world populated by perfectly compliantly blemish free women that happen to be robots; a perfect world when thought is controlled by a central agency.

Design is always a projection into the future. Always, by its nature, positive, always with a utopian impulse - from the building that will bring joy to it’s employees to a seat that can cushion one’s ass in style. What if we subject that design impulse to one wrong thing, one misfortune, one unintended consequence? What do we learn from a design gone wrong? Wrongness in this sense is not the opposite of right. A dysfunction can take on many colors. An object might not just cease to function, it may indeed permute functions and applications. Piracy offers a radical redistribution of product according to new codes of etiquette, licensing and responsibility. Hacking takes existing systems and subjects them to reprogramming, to novel alternatives and usually subversive ends. Cheating subverts the rules of a given regulatory system to the advantage of those with ingenuity, technique and shear audacity. Rules end up being rewritten as a result of the power of the cheat.

The dystopian world is a compelling setting for literature, not only for its social critique but because it offers a potential setting for conflict, adventure and room for the hero, or the one that’s even more ingenuous than the dystopia itself, who understands that even the most perfect dystopia is not without its flaws, and that those flaws are there to be exploited. She is the one that beats the system in its own game. He is the surprise survivor, the cockroach in the post-nuclear scenario – strange adapters in twisted ecosystem whose strengths are now exacerbated by new environmental conditions.

And so, welcome to the world of Urban Design. Sanitized vision of new urban districts, public space evacuated of all danger or real spectacle. This is the kind of humdrum regenerations offered to through the planning and urban design machines. Urbanity is a psychopath sedated on drugs and reeducated to tell the right anecdotes at the right dinner parties. All the while outside of the radar of the regeneration industries is the blood, guts, sweat, tears, people smiling, spontaneous celebrations, street car drag-racing, squirrel bashing, basement perversions, road vivisectionists and black tie swinger parties that constitute a big part of the real living city.

Superstudio’s polemic warnings of hyper-capitalistic cities, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, flooded visions of London - we want to consider the possibilities of considering urban practice in all its complexities, not only to acknowledge unknowability but to opperationalize it, what form might it take and whether might it spell a truly new urbanism. Is there something in the dystopian that is as usefull to the designer as the utopian? Is it at the level of critique or warning? How far can we push the perverse, the sickly potent, the strangely fantastic, and how might that be something that a client, a local authority, a research organization, a citizen, might actually buy into?

Dystopia

in Tomorrow's Thoughts Today

P. Su edificio ha conseguido ser popular. ¿A qué lo atribuye?

R. Los niños van allí a dibujarlo. Como es un edificio tipológico, los niños pueden dibujarlo. Yo estaba tratando de hacer pop sofisticado, que es el tipo de música que me gusta a mí, Belle & Sebastian. Es algo que entra bien pero que tiene un contenido sofisticado. Ni Céline Dion ni Nine Inch Nails. Siempre estás en el borde de ser popular o ser populista. El equilibrio es difícil.

P. ¿Se puede copiar para ser original?

R. Paul Valéry lo dijo muy claro: "Lo que no se parece a nada no existe". Creo que no tendríamos que tener miedo de las resonancias. No digo copiar. Después de Andy Warhol, la manipulación de las imágenes forma parte del tiempo en que vivimos.

ler mais: El País

O "google" diz que Neri Oxman, arquitecta e investigadora nascida em Israel, em 1976, acabou o curso na AA School of Architecture, uma das mais respeitadas escolas de arquitetura do Reino Unido e que, actualmente, trabalha no seu PhD em Design and Computation no Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Na verdade, olhando para as coisas que produz, é incrível e uma pena que não tenha aparecido por estes lados. Este ano, participou na ExperimentaDesign. Ela tem um blog que convém ler.

Deixo-vos com algumas imagens e uns vídeos :p

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A nova promessa, da Suécia. Este é o filme que eu quero ver! Let's look at the trailer.