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October 2009
Archigram / - Design/Designer Information
ARCHIGRAM dominated the architectural avant garde in the 1960s and early 1970s with its playful, pop-inspired visions of a technocratic future after its formation in 1961 by a group of young London architects – Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron and Michael Webb.
“A new generation of architecture must arise with forms and spaces which seems to reject the precepts of ‘Modern’ yet in fact retains those precepts. We have chosen to by pass the decaying Bauhaus image which is an insult to functionalism. You can roll out steel – any length. You can blow up a balloon – any size. You can mould plastic – any shape. Blokes that built the Forth Bridge – they didn’t worry.”
So wrote David Greene in a poem published in the first issue of Archigram magazine or, as Greene’s co-editor, Peter Cook, called it “a message, or abstract communication”. It was published in 1961 on a large sheet of the cheapest available paper. Filled with Greene’s poems and sketches of architectural projects designed by Cook, Michael ‘Spider’ Webb and other friends, the magazine voiced their frustration with the intellectual conservatism of the British architectural establishment.
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September 2009
Nine Into Five
NIWA - CASAL
August 2009
I Got Next: A Documentary on the Fighting Game Scene
Tokyo Cabinet: a modern implementation of DBM
Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value. There is neither concept of data tables nor data types. Records are organized in hash table, B tree, or fixed-length array.
June 2009
WATERLIFE - NFB
May 2009
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This is why text messages are 160 characters in length
And why 160 characters? Again, when Hillebrand discovered during his research that the average post card usually contained around 150 characters; people were already used to communicating using so few characters. (Telex messages were usually around this length, too, meaning that business users could easily adapt to text messages.) You’ll also find that your average e-mail today isn’t much longer than a text message.
The Prepaid Economy Blog: Some observed behaviour patterns in rural BoP households
people rarely held on to money in the form of cash for any length of time, for the most part due to lack of access to banks and/or the high cost of maintaining an account proportionate to their incomes. Cash was rapidly converted to goods based on priorities and these 'goods' acted as insurance (silver), savings (buying building materials on a piecemeal basis as cashflow allowed until the house could be built), a cushion aka insurance (selling a pig for an emergency or eaten for food) and finally investment (milk bearing cow, young piglets to rear to maturity, etc).
April 2009
NINE INCH NAILS: STROBE LIGHT - NEW ALBUM
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March 2009
Japan by Hiroji Kubota
(fun) S'amuser avec son album flickr - VirusPhoto
February 2009
The day of San Valentin (14 of February)
Books.htm - How to Find Ebooks on the web - (Hack) - by Fravia+ (2006)
December 2008
p a s s k o o l
November 2008
Franco Sacchi on Nollywood | Video on TED.com
grassroot movement. "The key to an healthy society is story tellers" Franco Sacchi about Nollywood.Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilliance under pressure from crews that can shoot a full-length feature in a week.
September 2008
Polaroid Manipulation
July 2008
Stephen plays Rain Man with Sir Hugh Casson - Stephen Wiltshire Videos
June 2008
Watch Movies Online - Totally Free Full Length Movies
March 2008
