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20.6.08
The Decent.
Thierry de Duve once stated that Manet's Painting of the Decent from the Cross, marks the start of Modernism because it depicts a state hovering between life and death. Just such a state is described by astronauts when they report about looking down to Earth hovering in the black of space. Manet's painting has a remarkable resemblance to the photo's of astronauts, being carried from their landing capsules. After long space missions their weakened bodies look frail and powerless.
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24.10.07
✪ Reprap the home-made 3-d printer.
More on rapid prototyping in this article I wrote earlier.
This is the result so far with our Reprap 3-d printer at [foAm] (Pics).
You may notice that it even has some wooden parts!
Before this I went to the fablab that is set up in Mediamatic. Here's some images from the workshop there:
11.10.07
✪ Swiss army bunker-chalets.
Ojode Pez a wonderful documentary-photography magazine, recently featured a collection of photographs of some strange architecture, taken by Christian Schwager.
Certainly this highlight from the history of military architecture deserves a closer look, for some of its features can be found in more recent large scale housing-projects and mass-urban-planning, where homes can look as fake as these bunkers do.
What looks warm and comfortable from afar, becomes chilling and lifeless under closer inspection.
And some more can be found on flickr:
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