This poster (800×1000mm) was designed to summarize and explain the summer holiday of 2009: a roadtrip/ moving house expedition undertaken by my partner Marthe and I, from Norway to England and back.
'L'amore, un'estate' (Love and Summer) di William Trevor, pubblicato in Italia dalla Casa Editrice Guanda, racconta delle tragiche conseguenze e la vergogna di una famiglia per l'onore perduto di una donna. L'autore, 81 anni, con la sua prosa ricca di sfumature, raffigura una società soggiogata dalla condanna implacabile della Chiesa sull'immoralità sessuale. Trevor racconta la città fittizia di Rathmoye con la precisione di una fotografia, offrendo un ritratto dei suoi abitanti, sottile e pittorico.
Project: smart.rockets
Date: Summer, 2006
Language: ActionScript 2
Key Concepts: Evolutionary computing, genetic algorithms, rocket science
Arte aborde cette année 2009-2010 avec beaucoup de détermination et de calme", a lancé mardi le président d’Arte France Jérôme Clément lors de la conférence de rentrée de la chaîne franco-allemande. Il s’est même approprié l’expression de "force tranquille" chère à François Mitterrand, qui signa l’accord de lancement d’Arte avec Helmut Kohl, il y a près de vingt ans. Lentement mais sûrement, Arte poursuit son petit bonhomme de chemin dans un paysage audiovisuel en mutation, affichant des résultats d’audience très corrects pour son "Summer of the 80’s" (3,8 % d’audience en moyenne), et une progression dans l’univers compétitif de la TNT (3,2 % d’audience en soirée en août). Tout en poursuivant sa "stratégie de qualité et de liberté créatrice", Arte explore toujours "la piste du rajeunissement, en créant des événements qui attirent les jeunes, en exploitant toujours plus Internet, et en travaillant sur les formats", a précisé Gottfried Langenstein, le président d’Arte.
Still, I wanted to tie in our fair / carnival / summer party-bbq theme a bit so I made this bunting (banners or flagging or garlands, whatever you want to call them) to go along the aisle. We shopped for a couple months to find cool patterned fabrics in our wedding colors.
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Perhaps, living a life is not for any specific purpose, survival itself is the most valuable thing.
New York secretes its fullest range of smells in the summer; disgusting or enticing, delicate or overpowering, they are liberated by the heat. So one sweltering weekend, I set out to navigate the city by nose. As my nostrils led me from Manhattan’s northernmost end to its southern tip, some prosaic scents recurred (cigarette butts; suntan lotion; fried foods); some were singular and sublime (a delicate trail of flowers mingling with Indian curry around 34th Street); while others proved revoltingly unique (the garbage outside a nail salon). Some smells reminded me of other places, and some will forever remind me of New York.
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The rich, collaborative web applications being developed on the NASA Apps platform are built on the open-source Django Web Application Framework. This portal provides source code repositories, bug tracking and AGILE project management systems, and public-facing wikis for each project within NASA Apps.
These projects, while intended to be released as open source software, have not currently passed through the NASA software release process. It is anticipated that they will be released under the NASA Open Source Agreement (NOSA), and will be accepting user community contributions by the end of the summer.
Brian House and Jesse Shapins were two of the co-creators of Yellow Arrow, an early locative media arts project and social software platform. In summer 2008, they co-taught the studio/seminar “Critical Urban Media Arts” at Columbia. Here, they discuss the conceptual background of the course and the pedagogical methods they developed, including Periplurban, a new platform for urban media research.
Ireland is a beautiful place, the country is gorgeous. Summer - the best time for visiting Ireland.
Causecast is an online global community and social action network that empowers individuals, businesses and nonprofits with media and tools that transform interest into action. We believe that the people of this country are its greatest resource and that together, this summer of service will change the course of history.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life?"
J. Bennett Fitts traveled some 20,000 miles to produce “No Lifeguard on Duty,” an investigation of America’s forgotten roadside motels. These vestiges of an earlier era—when families packed into their cars for summer vacations via two-lane highways—now exist in various stages of operation and disrepair. With their parking-lot-adjacent swimming pools prominently in the foreground, the motels reveal a decayed Americana and a near permanent sense of vacancy. However, beyond the cracked paint and the decrepit chain-links lies the nostalgia of life on the open road.
We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM. As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design. We’ll be launching this summer with a great collection of beautiful and hardworking typefaces. We’ll offer a free version of the service to get you started, and a low-cost way to grow from there. A truly scalable professional version will follow soon after.
Starting this summer, I will be leading small-group workshops exploring various topics including Processing, data visualization, generative practices, and tangible computing. With a maximum class-size of 10, these workshops allow for plenty of one-on-one instruction, as well as dialogue and discussion between all attendees. These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to learn new skills and to explore new ideas in a comfortable environment. Workshops are typically one day (7 hours), except where indicated, and include lunch, and all printed materials.
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