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Stazione Leopolda

Rivestimi

Sewing and assembly about 400 pants and 800 ties:a huge textile openwork to promenade and to loseyourself in.A very nice work by Denise Bonapace and PeterBottazzi for Pitti in Florence (20th January to 13February). Here the images of the temporary installation:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301084573283809.69716.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stazione-Leopolda/158246430875417?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Auletta (SA)

An Interesting Competition

Some days ago, I was asked to be part of the juryof this architectural / town planning / ideascompetition called: "Auletta, your ideas live here".

It deals with a lovely little town in Southern Italyand its territory. Too long to explain all thedetails, if you are interested you can follow thelink.

Anyway. The theme is very nice, the brief isorganized in a smart way, the people involved arevery ok. For once, I don't have to worry about thejury, because I am part of it.

I know a lot of smart designers follow my dailynotes, check the weblink and submit your project(the deadline has been postponed to 16th ofFebruary).
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Auletta-SA/157288954349699?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Victoria Station

Message to First YearStudents

Elio was sharing the message given by Ron Arad tohis students at Royal College (first day of school):

"Dear students, you arrive here being fullyemployable. By the time you are finished with thisprogram, you will be 100% unemployable"

(I love Arad's bluntness)

Here a link to eary Arad's stuff: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.307304609328472.70687.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.307304609328472.70687.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Victoria-Station/142242872520842?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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Lovely Covers

The Economist is the magazine I like the most.

Apart from being always interesting andsuperbrilliant, from time to time its covers aresimply great. This one for instance it was on the7th of January.

Here is the page with the complete completecollection (last 15 years): http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers...
http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers?print_region=76977http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers?print_region=76977

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Viareggio

Giancarlo Bigazzi (the gentleman at the center ofthis image), died yesterday in Viareggio. In the

Italian XXth Century pop poetry he was best. NonItalians might remember "Gloria" or "Ti amo" (sungby Umberto Tozzi). If you are Italian here a shortlist of goosebumps songs: "Luglio", "Lisa dagli occhiblu", "Montagne Verdi" + many more

To me, the best was reached when he founded(together with Daniele Pace, Tot Savio, AlfredoCerruti and Elio Gariboldi) the Squallor. As aSquallor founder member, he wrote all their lyrics,

fantastic poetry of absolute level (althoughgenerally labeled under "trash"). In trash we trust.Byebye Giancarlo.

Thankx for all.

Some days ago, apoet died. : (
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-the cover of the seminal: "Tocca l'albicocca",1985-

Allora io sono stato fermo e ...garenatomi dietrola mia tonaca dissi:

- Spia si nasce, non si cresce.

- E lui disse: Piacere, Pesce

~Squallor (Bigazzi, Pace, Savio), Piacere Pesce,from: Arrapaho, 1983

From album "Tocca l'albicocca" the link to"Amadeus" song, where you can listen to the storyof the first Italian computer (in Italian): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9iXhP3OzQ

Isola Del Giglio

Salone degli Affreschi (Scuba-

Divers in)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Isola-Del-Giglio/119165404829834?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9iXhP3OzQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9iXhP3OzQ

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Not only this cruise-ship story is beyond incredible.Also, the visual records are extremely peculiar.Like the scuba-divers in the Salone degli Affreschi.A fake Sistine Chapel slowly sinking, mysteriousbodysnatchers coming from the underworlds,tragedy, wiretapping and farce.

More images at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Inglewood, CA, United States

Living in a Schindler House...

Between the various people met in Breda, it was

quite nice to chitchat & talk with ms Kali Nikitas.Apart from the various things she does, I was quiteimpressed of this thing that she lives in a RudolphSchindler House.

Well, actually, it's even more. She owns a
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Schindler house, and she found it on Craiglist.

Here the whole story (how you find a buy aSchindler house on Craiglist): http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../schindler-house

And here the link to another Schindler House ("the"Schindler house): http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

dOCUMENTA (13)

100 Notes / 100 Thoughts

-a page of Alejandro Jodorowsky's notebook onFrank Herbert's Dune-

The notebook is part of a series of 100 notebooksmade before dOCUMENTA (13). A very nice and

smart project. Here some more images about
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Jodorowsky's Dune: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here some more about the 100 Notes / 100Thougths project: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Other useful links: http://www.hatjecantz.de/documenta13/en/notebooks/index.html +http://d13.documenta.de/ + http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail

Thanks to Gioia Guerzoni for the links / hints.

Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane

We live in a world wherecommon sense is very

uncommon.
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-Yayoi Kusama, Obliteration Room-

This idea (of living in a world where common senseis very uncommon) was the final agreement wehad with Elio Caccavale when we left each otherin Breda.

To illustrate the concept, nothing better than animage from Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room.Here some more images: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

"One day I was looking at the red flower patternsof the tablecloth on a table, and when I looked upI saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, thewindows and the walls, and finally all over theroom, my body and the universe. I felt as if I hadbegun to self-obliterate, to revolve in the infinityof endless time and the absoluteness of space, andbe reduced to nothingness. As I realized it wasactually happening and not just in my imagination,I was frightened. I knew I had to run away lest Ishould be deprived of my life by the spell of thered flowers. I ran desperately up the stairs. Thesteps below me began to fall apart and I fell downth e stairs straini ng my ankle"~ Yayoi Kusama
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Ishioka-san, she left...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cirque du Soleil's Varekai,

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Bjrk's Cocoon,Beijing 2008 Oly mpics' opening ce remonies.

What is the link between these quite differentthings? The answer is easy : the costu mes designed

by Eiko Ishioka.She was one of those people busy shaping the(surreal) form of the time and she died in Tokyofew days ago. Very sad.

Here some more images of her works: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here a New York Times article where you canlearn the basic facts about her: http://www.nytimes.com/.../eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at

And here the link to Bjork's Cocoon, directed byms Ishioka in 2001: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXlI6nCtVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXlI6nCtVkhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290788660980067.68045.268422276550039&type=3&savedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXlI6nCtVkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXlI6nCtVkhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290788660980067.68045.268422276550039&type=3&savedhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290788660980067.68045.268422276550039&type=3&saved

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Rue du Faubourg Saint Honor

Very Envious (I Am)

This is the kind of shit I would like to have done.Instead, it was done by Francesco Vezzoli, OMAand Prada. A special museum lasting only 24hours. All the things related to a museum (dinners,even ts, press, etc.etc.etc.), but the museum.Lovely.

Some images of t he "24 Hours Museum" at: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here is its website: http://www.24hoursmuseum.com/

And here is Francesco Vezzoli explanation aboutit: http://domusweb.it/.../24-hours-museum-vezzoli-vs-koolhaas/
http://domusweb.it/en/art/24-hours-museum-vezzoli-vs-koolhaas/http://www.24hoursmuseum.com/http://domusweb.it/en/art/24-hours-museum-vezzoli-vs-koolhaas/http://domusweb.it/en/art/24-hours-museum-vezzoli-vs-koolhaas/http://www.24hoursmuseum.com/http://www.24hoursmuseum.com/https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290146051044328.67917.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.290146051044328.67917.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rue-du-Faubourg-Saint-Honor%C3%A9/184428478235282?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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La famiglia italiana

Smokin' a Puff...

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In the cold night of Malpensa, before to leave toBkk

In retrospective, to get out of Milan just beforethe coldest two weeks in twenty years, that, itwasn't a really bad idea...

Suvarnabhumi International Airport

One thing I like very much when flying Gulfairlines is this fact of having a personal screen alsoon Economy Class.

This means you can play games, watch movies, getin odd languages interactive courses and, most ofall, watch the taking off and landing of the planefrom the videocamera.

Landing as I Was in aVideogame
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Suvarnabhumi-International-Airport/209810082370528?ref=stream&viewer_id=1344697023

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To watch your plane landing through this lousycameras is very nice because you feel as being avideogame. Very nice feeling, indeed. Here somemore pictures of my last landing: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/...

Miracles and Attitudes

-from: Dino Buzzati, I miracoli della Val Morel-

I was going back to the notes I took at this seminaron the future of design education (in Breda, someweeks ago).

If I had to summarize two days of works, lots of

interesting people and ideas, I would go forsomething like this:

"In design schools they used to teach you skills,now they should suggest you attitudes".
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The image was made by Dino Buzzati, part of his:"I miracoli della Val Morel" great book (now back inprint again).Here some more images of Buzzati's fictional ex-votos: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

Here the link to the book (in Italian): http://www.librimondadori.it/web/mondadori/scheda-libro...
http://www.librimondadori.it/web/mondadori/scheda-libro?isbn=978880461526http://www.librimondadori.it/web/mondadori/scheda-libro?isbn=978880461526https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.306148156110784.70498.268422276550039&type=1

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