"Over the past few decades, we have become accustomed to witnessing these visual testaments to man's mastery of engineering on countless evening newscasts and documentary programs. However most people never tire of seeing yet another structure simply "disappear" into thin air.
Yet even with all of its publicity and notoriety, structural explosive demolition remains an abstruse, often misunderstood sub-industry." --Implosionworld.com
February 01, 2007
September 07, 2006
Conflux 06
CONFLUX: the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets.
July 25, 2006
Wikimania 2006
Wikimania 2006, the second annual international Wikimedia conference, will be held August 4–6 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within the Harvard Law School campus. Both a scientific conference and a community event, Wikimania brings together members of the various Wikimedia projects in order to exchange ideas, build relationships, and report on research and project efforts. It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and the general public alike to meet and share ideas about free and open source software, free knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide
May 13, 2006
December 13, 2005
Abu Dhabi by Juergen Stumpe
Abu Dhabi is an ultra modern and beautiful city in the United Arab Emirates.
Here is a collection of nice photos from this urban paradise.
October 04, 2005
Richard Prince's Second House
Artist Richard Prince's "Second House" has been aquired by the Guggenheim and will be opened to the public.
August 03, 2005
Dreamland/ Coney Island
In 2004, Creative Time and artist Steve Powers initiated their shared vision to revitalize the rich visual culture of Coney Island via the contemporary reinvention of the tradition of colorful hand-painted signs and advertisements dating back more than a century in Coney Island. The next generation of this artistic and cultural endeavor, The Dreamland Artist Club 2005, revives and expands the project with a new group of established and emerging, gallery and street artists from New York, the U.S., and across the globe.
Members of the Dreamland Artist Club 2005 - Tauba Auerbach, Beatriz Barral, Crash, Ronnie Cutrone, Os Gemeos, Justin Green, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Mimi Gross, Vandana Jain, Greg Lamarche, Paul Lindahl, Clive Murphy, Gary Panter, Kamau Patton, Bruno Peinado, Steve Powers, and Swoon - painted signs, concession stands, storefronts, and murals throughout Coney Island. A 130-foot long mural by Os Gemeos, the identical twin street painting team from Brazil, welcomes visitors as they exit the subway to begin their Coney Island adventure.
June 24, 2005
Habitat '67
"Habitat is a model community constructed along the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, composed of 354 prefabricated modules which combineto form a three-dimensional space structure. The modules, or 'boxes' as they are known, are connected in varying combinations to create 158residences ranging from 600 ft2 to 1,700 ft2. Pedestrian streets serve as horizontal circulation throughout the entire complex. Habitat '67 was the realisation of Moshe Safdie's thesis titled "A Case for City Living, A Study of Three Urban High Density Housing Systems for CommunityDevelopment" and was also the major theme exhibition of the 1967 Montreal World Exposition. "
Read more, see more... I love this place.
April 15, 2005
Poseidon
Have you ever imagined if you can live undersea??
The undersea resort, Poseidon, is not completed design and engineering of the underwarter portions.
The company is currently focusing its attention on the Bahamas' location, permitting, property options, licenses, etc, and the earliest anticipated opening date would be late 2006.
One night costs $1500. Save money for your first great night undersea.
Aichi Expo 2005
Is it exciting if your face appears in a film?? In a special animated film at Aichi Expo in Japan, you will be asked if you'd like to take part in the show on your way in-just by placing your facce into a hole in the wall. Eveyone in the theater who wants one, can take a role. Toshiba supercomputer processes the one-time-only film in the back.
Aichi Expo now opens untill Sep. 25th. It held full of visual reality safaris, robots, advanced technology, etc. If you got a chance to go to Japan, it's gonna be fun to check this out.
