Stefano Mirtis

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2013
timeline archive:
a personal collection
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Hangzhou, China
Paris, China
This, I like it so much. A Paris replica in the
middle of nowhere in China.
Most of the report describe the place as eerie,
odd, bad, wrong (and whatever negative adjective
you can think of).
Not understanding that it is a sublime piece of
poetry by contemporary Chinese culture.
I wish I was there
Here some more:
http://www.businessinsider.com/tianducheng-a-
paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UNKi148sds
(the video is very nice)
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Ecal
Qiyun Deng's Graft
Here the description on the website:
Graft is a series of disposable tableware made of
bioplastic PLA revealing its sources materials - the
plants.
Texture and form in nature autonomously exist
with a function that we can borrow to serve the
purpose of artificial objects. A celery stem for
example, acts as handle for the fork; a petal of
artichoke then becomes the bowl of spoon.
By waking both visual and haptic sensation it
brings along a question: Will you throw they away
easily?
More at: http://cargocollective.com/qiyun/Graft
Even more at: http://dornob.com/biodegradable-
utensil-set-mimics.../...
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Cooper Union
John Hejduk's Taxonomies
Today, I've got lost in John Hejduk's taxonomic
exercise and sketchs.
So nice, so powerful, so sharp...
I am quite in love with them
Here some more: https://www.facebook.
com/media/set/
And here, even more: http://www.
coffeewithanarchitect.com/.../architecture.../
Special quote of the day:
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Malm, Sweden
Rymdkapsel
After several years of playing obsessively
"Civilization", I spent the last couple of months
playing "Dots".
But then, my friend don't challenge me enough,
hence, once i reached a fantastic (at least for me)
659, I didn't have enough motivation to keep
playing.
Then, this morning, I've found: "Rymdkapsel" and I
am back to play in a very happy mood
http://rymdkapsel.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rymdkapsel
It's a great mix. Imagine Asteroids, Tetris and Sims
all the once.
"I believe in the social contract; therefore, I
teach. I believe that the university is one of the
last places that protects and preserves freedom;
therefore, teaching is also a sociopolitical act,
among other things".
(John Hejduk)
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Tokyo, Japan
Mokei Terada's Paper Worlds
Yesterday I went to see this exhibition about Naoki
Terada's "Mokei Terada" things (in Japanese
language, "mokei" means "model").
Quite fascinating indeed.
Checking his website, his world gets even more
fascinating
http://www.teradamokei.jp
Here, some more images: https://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Very Nice House
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has
completed a house in Ho Chi Minh City with half of
its floors screened behind hollow concrete blocks
and the other half exposed to the elements.
Keep reading at: http://www.dezeen.com/...
/binh-thanh-house-by-vo-trong.../
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Warsaw, Poland
In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a way of
dividing space into a number of regions. A set of
points (called seeds, sites, or generators) is
specified beforehand and for each seed there will
be a corresponding region consisting of all points
closer to that seed than to any other.
More at: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
Make yours at: http://alexbeutel.
com/webgl/voronoi.html
The image above comes from: http:
//workshopsfactory.wordpress.com/.../2d-
voronoi.../
Today, I am lost in Voronoi
tasselations...
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Chicago, IL, United States
Histomap. What a cool thing!
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This Histomap, created by John B. Sparks, was
first printed by Rand McNally in 1931.
This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend
in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and
1930s: the outline, in which large subjects (the
history of the world! every school of philosophy!
all of modern physics!) were distilled into a form
comprehensible to the most uneducated layman.
The 5-foot-long Histomap was sold for $1 and
folded into a green cover, which featured
endorsements from historians and reviewers.
Keep reading at: http://www.slate.com/...
/the_1931_histomap_the_entire...
Wien, Austria
Language boosts invisible
objects into visual
awareness...
Very nice article on the Guardian
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said
that, "the limits of my language mean the limits of
my world," meaning that we can only understand
the world through the language we use, and that if
our language does not include words for some
particular idea or concept, then that concept
cannot exist for us.
Keep reading at: http://www.theguardian.com/...
/language-boosts-invisible...
Leiden, Netherlands
Ikea Job Interview
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
I love Steve Martin!
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New York China Town
Museum
This is the best proect I've seen in the last three
months.
A new museum in NY City.
If you think that the "new" museum is Sejima's
one, you are so outdated.
The "New Museum", became horribly old since the
"Museum" popped up in China Town.
Here for you to read:
http://www.nytimes.com/.../museum-all-60-
square-feet-of
And here their website:
http://mmuseumm.com/
Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for this very special link!
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Chonburi, Thailand
Yesterday morning the two Panda were driven in a
container to be shipped back home. Very nice
adventure, very nice to follow it via Instagram.
@bghella, thanxthanx!
Image: courtesy of Sorawit Klaimark.
Milan/ Bangkok on
a Fiat Panda is over.
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Aeropuerto Jorge Wilstermann
A Dying Airline...
...though the company still owned 21 hectares of
Bolivian land and employed nearly 200 people, it
hadnt flown a passenger since 2007, when the
government shut it down on account of unpaid
taxes and its ever-worsening financial situation....
Keep reading at: http://www.wired.com/...
/photos-documenting-the-beauty.../
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Soi Sukhumvit 39
Last Night...
...I went out to buy some cigarettes. It was two or
three AM, the city was moreless asleep (apart
from the Seven Eleven where I was going).
All sudden, I stumbled upon one of those temples
of uknown religions.
It was very nice and very special. I guess it belongs
to the Church of Neon Light and Concrete Floors.
Very nice. Wish you were here...
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Cairo, Egypt
Although I read the news, not easy to understand.
Here above, David Hockney's Egyptian, 1963.
More sketches by Hockney in Egypt (as well as
other ones) at: https://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...
Lots of things happening
in Egypt now...
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
A Solar Bell
Visionary artist Tomas Saraceno has built a flying
sculpture that is purely fueled by wind and solar
energy. Saraceno built the Solar Bell in hopes of
creating architectural structures that defy gravity
by hovering mid-air like observation towers. His
utopian idea of building whole cities that could
exist in the clouds is executed in his project,
Cloud City.
Keep reading at: http://www.psfk.com/...
/08/wind-powered-flying-building.html
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Area 51, Roswell New Mexico
Yes, Area 51 exists!
It's a good day to be a conspiracy theorist. Ending
a decades-long game of leak after leak without
any official word, the US government has finally
admitted the existence of Area 51 in a recently
declassified CIA report detailing the history of the
U-2.
Keep reading at: http://gizmodo.com/us-
government-finally-admits-yes-area
Here, some more images: http://news.
nationalgeographic.com/.../110520-spy-plane.../
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Haus der Geschichte Baden-Wrttemberg
RAF Terror im Sdwesten
This is special stuff.
In Stuttgart's House of History (James Stirling's
building), they have a stunning exhibition on
1970's terrorism, or as they say, the "Bleierne Zeit"
(time of lead).
Very impressive and very daring. I wish something
similar would be possible in Italy (but I know this is
no).
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Here the link to the exhibition website (German
only): http://www.raf-ausstellung.de/startseite/
Here another link (again in German), with images
and explanations: http://www.welt.de/.../Wo-
der-RAF-Terror-bedroht-anstatt...
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Design 101 on iversity
I wanted to change the world by Stefano Mirti
You can read more here: https://www.iversity.
org/blog/175351218/
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Some Advices for the
Young...
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courtesy of Patti Smith and William Burroughs:
http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/patti-smith-
advice-young
"Build a good name"
"Keep your name clean. Dont make compromises,
dont worry about making a bunch of money or
being successful. Be concerned about doing good
work and protect your work."
California
Hyperloop
Elon Musk, electric-car entrepreneur (Tesla
Motors) and proponent of private colonies on Mars,
now plans to redesign the railway.
Half a century after they were pioneered in France
and Japan, could high-speed trains be coming to
America? Last year Californias legislators gave
$7.7 billion to a project called California High
Speed Rail (CHSR). If and when it is completed it
will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles, with
branch lines to Sacramento and San Diego.
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
Keep reading this interesting article from The
Economist: http://www.economist.com/...
/21583588-elon-musk-electric...
Calcutta, India
Satyajit Ray's Film Posters
Nice exhibition on Satyajit Ray's film posters.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/.../august/ray-
posters-bfi
Who is Satyajit Ray?
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Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker, regarded as
one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray
was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali
family prominent in the world of arts and
literature. Starting his career as a commercial
artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking
after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and
viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948
film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films,
documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction
writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic
designer and film critic. He authored several short
stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and
adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor
Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories,
are popular fictional characters created by him.
Keep reading at: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray
Stefanos facebook timeline 33/52 2013
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Very nice exhibition on Le Corbusier at MoMA:
http://www.moma.
org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321
Here a couple of nice reviews: http://www.
dezeen.com/.../le-corbusier-an-atlas-of.../
http://www.newyorker.com/.../le-corbusier-
exhibition-at
The thing I like the most are his sketches. Here a
folder with some nice ones
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
Le Corbusier: An Atlas
of Modern Landscapes