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Stefano Mirtis

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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

Stefano Mirtis

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Porta Venezia

Librizzi's Fancy Hat

I went out for dinner with Francesco Librizzi.

Very nice chitchat. He is busy into a lot of

interesting and nice projects (too bad, I can't

disclose much yet).

Anyway, after all these stories about people,

architectures, things and thoughts, the thing I

liked the most was his (very) stylish hat.

How can you do architecture in style if you are not

able to dress properly?
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Mm2 Crescenzago

Fluo Sunset

Sometimes, this fact of being nothing more than a

character of a sci-fi movie, becomes fairly

blatant...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mm2-Crescenzago/118356731554172?ref=stream

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Bethlehem, PA, United States

Image of the Day

I've found another fantastic collection of images.

It is a project by CCA, and it is called "image of

the day".

Every day, a new image, from their astonishingand fantastic (analog) collections.

Here the link: http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/tag/4822

CCA: http://www.cca.qc.ca

Thanks toFabrizio Gallantifor the hint, and

thanks to Tim Abrahams for setting up the game.

Of course, in a perfect world, there should besome flashing link on the homepage of CCA linking

directly to the new daily feed (but we know, we

don't live in a perfect world...)
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New York, NY

Rat /Arhitektura

Image above:

Flix Bonfils, photographer. View of Bethlehem. c.

1870s. Albumen silver print, 23.1 x 28.8 cm. CCA

Collection. PH1980:0683.03:038

With an uneasy peace currently existing in the

West Bank in Palestine, this photograph captures a

small town in the region in apparently more

tranquil times. This photograph was taken by the

Frenchman Flix Bonfils, who moved to Beirut in

1867 and opened a photographic studio called

Maison Bonfils. Bethlehem is according to the

Gospel of Luke the town where Jesuss parents

travelled for the Census of Quirinius and where

their son was born.

18 December 2012
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Now reading Lebbeus Woods' "War and

Architecture", in a new Italian edition.

Very special book, for a very special architect.

http://www.deleyvaeditore.

com/guerraearchitettura.html

More about Lebbeus Woods:

http://lebbeuswoods.net/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

/2012/oct/31/lebbeus-woods

http://www.nytimes.com/.../lebbeus-woods-

unconventional

Architecture and war are not incompatible.

Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at

war with my time, with history, with all authority

that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no

home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call

my own, no known beginning or end, no "sacred

and primordial site." I declare war on all icons and

finalities, on all histories that would chain me with

my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know

only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments,

and forms that appear with infinite strength, then

"melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of

worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the

melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky.

I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine.

Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of

a city.

(Lebbeus Woods)
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Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centrefor Architecture (CCA)

Support Grants

This is a very nice thing, a program by http:

//www.facebook.com/cca.conversation?

ref=ts&fref=ts

They provide support grants for people who

want/need to use their impressive study centre.

Here the short description:

Support grants provide reimbursement of costs for

traveling to or residing in Montral for candidates

who demonstrate a compelling need to use the

CCA Collection during residencies of one to four

weeks at the Study Centre.

More at: http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/study-

centre/support-grants#2012
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Bari

Antonio Piccirilli

The otherday, I've met Antonio Piccirilli. I hadn't

met him since a long time, and it was avery nice

chitchat.

Always busy between product design, fashion

design, now he is the head of IED Milan fashion

design school.

Very nice, very bravo!

Here an article on avery specialwork of him

(together with Reed Young):

http://reedyoung.com/antonio-piccirilli-and-the-

city-of.../

Next round, the deadline is the 1st of March

Thanks to Fabrizio Gallantifor the hint.
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Yekaterinburg, Russia

A (Very) Special Cemetery!

This photo (and the one linked below) are from

cemetery in Yekaterinburg city.

This Russian city was known in 90s as crimecapital of Russia, many Russian mafia leaders

lived there, and many of them participated in

gang wars, as a result many of them now rest in

peace on this cemetery. They always liked tombs

like those, the production of such tomb also coststhousands of dollars.

More at: http://englishrussia.com/.../27/russian-

mafia-grave-tombs/

And here the link to Antonio's website: http:

//www.antoniopiccirilli.com/home.htm
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Grand Central Terminal

Europe has its cathedrals and we have Grand

Central Station."

(Philip Johnson)

As the station celebrates its centennial, New York

looks to the next 100 years

Here the link to read a very nice article:

Grand Central

(Has Got 100 Years Old)

If you like the style, here some more: http:

//www.repubblica.it/.../cimiteri_gangster...

/1/...

Thanks to Elio Caccavalefor the hints...
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Paris, France

Chris Marker

I didn't know that Chris Marker died last July. Very

sad, I liked his experimental movies very much.

: (

Here the link to "La Jete", probably his most

famous one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

smEWxVUy3A

Here an article about him: http://www.guardian.

co.uk/film/2012/jul/30/chris-marker

http://www.economist.com/.../21571169-station-

celebrates...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smEWxVUy3Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smEWxVUy3Ahttp://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21571169-station-celebrates-its-centennial-new-york-looks-next-100-yearshttp://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21571169-station-celebrates-its-centennial-new-york-looks-next-100-yearshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/30/chris-markerhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jul/30/chris-markerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smEWxVUy3Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smEWxVUy3Ahttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Paris-France/110774245616525?ref=stream

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Hammer Museum

Map of Nowhere

British artist Grayson Perry was awarded the

Turner Prize for his provocative ceramic vases in

2003.

A monumental etching recently acquired by the

Image above: a still from La Jetee, a 1962 film

directed by Chris Marker.

Some more stills: http://www.facebook.

com/media/set/

"Chris Marker is the prototype of the twenty-first-

century man" (Alain Resnais).

Also, worth to mention that he was born, and he

died, in the same day I was born (not so relevant,

still, curious thing).
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Malpensa - Terminal 2

A Lonely Stair. Waiting for

her airplane to come.

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts

demonstrates Perrys skills as a printmaker. It

combines a diagram of the artists body with a

medieval map of the world. The composition is

riddle with allegorical references to the artists

own identities and witty allusions to current

social, political, and economic themes. Churches

for Microsoft and Starbucks, and an Elizabethan

portrait of a woman titled St. Claire, Perrys alter

ego/patron saint, are a few of the images that

adorn this iconographic tour-de-force.

See the original and read more at: http:

//hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?p=760

Thanks to FedericaRavera for the fantastic link.
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Abadir (Arts Between Architecture Design &

InterdisciplinaryResearch)

I've finally met mr Ko Sliggers. Very cool chap.

Ko Sliggers& His "Staple

Mono"

On my way to WhoamI workshop at Abadir

Catania.

If you are around Catania between tomorrow

morning and sunday evening, please, pass by

If you also like notebooks, booklets, diaries, etc.

etc.etc, then take a look at:

http://www.facebook.

com/events/198129420326908/


com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/
https://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/https://www.facebook.com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/https://www.facebook.com/events/198129420326908/https://www.facebook.com/events/198129420326908/https://www.facebook.com/abadir.artist.and.designer.schoolhttps://www.facebook.com/abadir.artist.and.designer.schoolhttps://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/ko.sliggershttps://www.facebook.com/abadir.official?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/abadir.official?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/abadir.official?ref=stream

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InterdisciplinaryResearch)

In the meanwhile, claudio farinaset up aproduction of 10black & white leporellos.

WhoamI Workhsop.

Booklets I Very Like (2)

Typeface designer, traveler, cook + many other

things.

Now chitchatting about typeface and things. It

doesn't happen so often, hence I am quite happy.

Here the link to see some more of his typefaces

and other things he does: http://www.dutchfonts.

com/

And here some more: http://luc.devroye.

org/fonts-44893.html
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Interdisciplinary Research)

This was another cute production. A series of ten

booklets.

Giuseppe Mendolia Calellaproduced the cover

working on existing books (cutcutcut).

Alessandra Rigano stenciled our initials with nice

forms, shapes and colors.

WhoamI Workhsop.


The idea is to transform the booklet into a spatial

concept.

Very simple, very booouuuummm!

Thanx Claudio!
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Workshop day #1.

This is one of the results I like the most. A seriesoften booklets made by Sarah Borinato, Luca Hugo

Brucculeri, Fabio Pecorino.

They never met before and in few hours of hard

work, they designed and produced the story of

WhoamI Workhsop.


Clelia Valentino was making illustrations on tape.

Myself I started to work mixing up green stuff and

the photocopier.

Altogether, it was a very enjoyable afternoon...
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Day 1 of the workshop was to get to know each

other and start to get to understand the whole

concept & feeling.

In day 2, people were getting into the real action.

Here above,Anne-sophie Gauvin's experiments

(very nice!)

Booklet Workshop, Day 2

(ThingsI Like)

themselves meeting here at Abadir Catania.

A whole, complete, story. No words: only lines,

folds and cuts.

Very very like!
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claudio farinafell in love with the special printing

technique developed by ms Nina Haussman.

It is a mix between calcography and silkprint. A

very fantastic lady for some very fantastic results.

Here an image of the process. A series of 10booklets, each of them an herbarium of local

species.

Very like! Thanks Claudio, thanks Nina!

Joyce, gioca con noi


com/groups/WHOAMInotebookchallenge/


(Some Other Things I Like)
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You give me a photocopier and tracing paper, and

I get lost (lovely feeling)...


(Some Other Things I Like)
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Abadir (Arts Between Architecture Design &Interdisciplinary Research)

Tecnica Mista

Apart from looking at all kind of notebooks,

booklets, diaries made by the workshop's

participants, I made a series of my own.

Like claudio farina, I was impressed by ms Nina

Haussman techniques. Hence, I set up the

production of a series of 20 thematic notebooks. A

Sicilian herbarium, where I mixed black and white

photocopies, tracing paper, colorful calcographies

(on cardboard, to be used as covers).

The result was so nice, that my first prototype was

stolen even before it was completed...
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China

Year of the Snake

Chinese mythology considers the snake a powerful

creature. A popular myth says being close to a

person of this particular zodiac brings renewed

energy to one's life.

The Snake is associated with the element of fire

(Chinese mythology has five primary alchemical

elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water),

and is therefore believed to generate positive

feelings of light, warmth and comfort.

However, like fire, it is also associated with the

negative quality of burning when treated without

respect.

Keep reading at: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/...

/chinese-new-y...

Thanks to Sui Hanying for sharing the (very) nice

image...
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Abadir (Arts Between Architecture Design &Interdisciplinary Research)

Another One, I Very Like...

Nikita Nikit, spent a whole day makiing a

mesmerizing series. Tracing paper becoming a

system of pockets holding different organic

samples.

Very like!
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