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Deconcrete recently released an article about Thomas Wrede 's composed landscape photographs entitled Real Landscapes which dramatizes tracks of artefacts in extreme geological terrains. The shift of scale is important here since it opens the opportunity of discovering new landscapes in the micro-scale just like David Linch suggested in the opening of Blue Velvet ...

Playing the building is a 2005-09 project by Musician David Byrne who connected a piano to a series of devices that make the building around releasing a sound. The sounds can thus be combinated which ultimately creates a symphony that John Cage would have probably not deny. Each visitor of the exhibition are encouraged to try this building instrument that develops a peculiar way of interacting with a building Thanks Martin !

The Au Courant website has put up a cool teaser for their planned Carnival project. Au Courant  is an emerging Fashion Media + Creative Production space based in New York City.  FIND  out more here .

Rue Abu Jamil is a documentary filmed by two French journalists Alexis Monchovet & Stéphane Marchetti who thus depict the daily life in the Gaza strip. Two excerpts of this documentary are visible online and the first one is particularly interesting since it explores one of the numerous tunnel that cross the border between Rafah (Gaza) and Egypt. Those holey complexes are the main target of the Israeli army which regularly destroy the zone via their F16 or their armored bulldozer D9 (see previous post about the documentary Death in Gaza). The videos are unfortunately subtitled in French... Rue Abu Jamil - Extrait 3 HD from Playprod on Vimeo . Rue Abu Jamil - Extrait 2 HD from Playprod on Vimeo . To go further about the tunnel complexes, read the previous article about Edwin Agudelo for the US/Mexico border and Bryan Finoki's article about tunnels on subtopia. Thanks Elodie

Lebbeus Woods ' last article on his blog entitled Walls of Change investigates the wall as an urban element that separates two milieus from each other or punctually paradoxically gather people as the Berlin wall demonstrated in November 1989. The article then focuses on an amazing project, Mr. Woods drawn for La Havana several years ago, introducing the wall as an infrastructure that houses could embrace. More drawings and texts on his blog .

FROM THE ORGANISERS: KIN:  Hittin The South Land Friday >>> Hard 12 THE BAND: People of the World.Word on the street is that it is the best live show in town so we're taking it to Sando. If you heard the "Kin n 12 Buzz" but couldn't make it to town people we are coming to you. Come early and find your space. Date: Friday 28th May 2010 Venue: Blue Martini on Sutton St. in San Fernando Time: 9pm Adm: $40TT In the meantime click on this link and check out one of the best video's produced in TnT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvU1SUEXFI God Bless, Sheli WATCH 12 the band's video for their track "Prosper" BELOW:  AND read more here .

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Here is a little animation excerpted from Jean-Luc Godard 's 1964 movie Bande a Part ( Band of Outsiders ). The three main characters cross Le Louvre Museum by running. In 2003, Bertolucci's Dreamers (Louis Garrel, Eva Green and Michael Pitt) defeated their record !

The Manual of Decolonization is a book created by Salottobuono in the frame of the research Decolonizing Architecture (already evoked here ) lead by Eyal Weizman, Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal. This research starts with the scenario of successful negotiations between Palestinians and Israeli that would lead to the suppression of colonies established in the West Bank and the application of the Right to Return for Palestinian refugees. However, the project does not necessarily implies a total withdrawal of Israeli but rather investigates propositions that annihilate the asymmetrical military that characterize colonies. In this regard Salottobuono propose ten steps of "decolonization" that would actually change the status of the settlements into the architecture of a pacific cohabitation. In fact in 2005, when the Gaza strip had been decolonized by the Sharon administration, the strategical aspect of this decision implied a strategical decolonization by the Israeli State. ...

Salottobuono is an Italian architectural collective that has created (among others) two extremely interesting projects that I absolutely wanted to publish here. The first (second will be for tomorrow) is a pseudo Ikea catalog entitled Paranoia that propose a vision of what might be a urban military world where security will be one more product of consumption (in a nutshell, our world in a slightly exaggerated way). In a way that recalls David Fincher's Fight Club , Salottobuono created an inventory of product that could be quickly being sold on the market (or which are already). The climax of this catalog for architects is a section/perspective of what the house of this near future may look like. Domus Paranoia Domus n.902 - April 2007

Here is a (very) short film made by a young interesting office FREAKS freearchitects (Paris, FR), this movie as been made during august 2007 maybe we can qualified it as a "pre-crisis" work. so far even if the message of the video is pretty tough, the pictures are kind of enthusiastic!! Enjoy!

"Apparently graffiti is only legal and accepted around election time," writes Seon Thompson at his blog Copy Book Page . SEE more here .

F rom a production of Yasmina Rena's 1994 play Art , staged during the 2008/2009 season at the Steppenwolf, Chicago   FROM THE ORGANISERS: Centre for Language Learning (CLL) Audfitorium Tuesday 25th May 2010 7:30 pm Art (In French) 8:30 pm Un borracho singular (In Spanish ) Tickets for 1 or 2 shows: $10 (Call 662-2002, ext. 2032) Limited Seating! Art Yasmina Reza , 1994 (France ) Set in Paris, the story revolves around three friends--Serge, Marc and Yvan--who find their previously solid 15-year friendship on shaky ground when Serge buys an expensive painting. The canvas is white, with a few white lines. Serge is proud of his 200,000 franc acquisition, fully expecting the approval of his friends. Marc scornfully describes it as “a piece of white shit,” but is it the painting that offends him, or the uncharacteristic independence-of-thought that the purchase reveals in Serge? For the insecure Yvan, burdened by the problems of his impending wedding and his dissatisfaction at his job a...

I am often desperate to see that some excellent authors of "resistance" are being used by the forces they were fighting against in the first place (not to talk about the tremenduous amount of 60's rock songs which are now systematically used in commercials !). What I (We?) forgot sometimes is that we can do the same thing: DETOURNER as the Situationists would put it. So here is the book all offered to the Detournement since an architect who would like some simple solutions to create an environment less based on paranoia would just have to design the contrary of what it advocates. Its author, Barry Poyner wanted Design against Crime to be a kind of sequel of Defensible Space written in 1972 by Oscar Newman. Without ever making a distinction between homicide, robbery, burglary and vandalism, Poyner's thesis is that "t he layout of neighbourhoods, the form of streets, the design of housing and the planning of schools can be said to contribute to the likelihood of ...