Stefano Mirtis

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08/52
2013
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a personal collection
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Toronto, Canada
Tom Ngo's The Crucible
Above: The Crucible (2012) - "a drawing of a
'perfect community' in all its flaws".
Very nice article on Tom Ngo's recent work: http:
//www.dezeen.com/.../more-architectural-
absurdities.../
"Architectural absurdity playfully transgresses
within the rules of building formation to create
valid alternative assemblages while scrutinising
regulation.
The resultant architecture redefines the rituals of
program and questions the notion of typology.
Unbound by strict conformity to logic, the
liberated architect breathes new life into
architecture."
(Tom Ngo)
Thanks to Alessandro Mininno for the link.
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Anonymous Press /
1. Anonymous Press () is a self-sufficient
publishing platform.
2. Every publication by is a byproduct of an
individual and a database, i.e. Google Image
Search.
3. Human author defines the topic, the content
and the form is generated from the most relevant
images found online.
4. Each publication can be added to a public
library.
5. Every item in the library is printed on-demand
and is available to everyone for a small fee
covering shipping and production costs.
6. Publications are sorted in a chronological order.
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Milan
Stefi's Lowcase. Fairly Bold.
I fell into this typeface thinghy, and I can't get
out
Ko Sliggers launched the challenge, and I started
to work on very simple things. How to make a
typeface while having dinner at the Chinese
restaurant, typeface while having breakfast at the
coffee bar. Next was to use my hands as a printing
set.
I am totally in love with it.
7. does not own and is not responsible for the
content generated by its users.
http://www.anonymous-press.com
Thanks to Antonio Scarponi for the link!
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Milan
James Irvine, 1958/2013
Disegno di un pavimento in cui i tuoi passi saranno
incerti (Ettore Sottsass, 1973)
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http://www.facebook.
com/groups/WHOAMItyperoom/
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Turin
When I Was a Child...
I really like to invent worlds.
Like most of the Italian kids, I had a very special
fascination for Panini stickers, marbles, and caps.
I had my special collection of fancy caps, and I
would use them very often to organize incredibly
complex sport's event (from football games to
cycling competitions).
Trying to start the "bike sharing" workshop: http:
//www.facebook.com/.../WHOAMIbi...
/doc/410774975674802/
Thanx to Marco Lampugnani and Gaspare Caliri.
http://www.compagniadellebiglie.
it/giocociclismo.htm
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South Africa
Sociable Weaver Bird
No, Annarita, these arent haystacks stuck in a
phone pole.
Visit the Kalahari Desert in the south of Africa and
youre bound to run into a peculiar animal called
the Sociable Weaver Bird.
The birds are called social not just because they
live in organized colonies, but because they build
massive homes out of sticks, grass and cotton that
are home to several other kinds birds.
Keep reading at: http://www.thisiscolossal.
com/.../massive-bird-nests.../
Thanks to Filippo Romano for the link!
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East London
Vitrine Objects
A collection of collections. Rachel Whiteread's
supersuper things
http://hammer.ucla.
edu/programs/detail/program_id/384
And here, some more:
http://artsy.net/artist/rachel-whiteread
Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for the suggestion.
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Berlin, Germany
The Constitute
Sorry for disappearing in the last two days, but I
was into the logistic organization for this very nice
project I am developing with Susanna for the next
Fuori Salone.
Special guests, The Constitute, from Berlin.
http://theconstitute.org
They will present for the first time ever, their
"teletransportation" project.
http://theconstitute.org/ready-to-fog/
Stay tuned and you'll get to know more...
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Lambrate
Invisible Things
Having spent a couple of days working hard with
Legrenzi Susanna, I've seen some of the various
projects she is preparing for next Fuori Salone.
The previews related to this exhibition on
"invisibility" (she is curating it with Stefano Maffei
for Logotel) are really impressive.
Here one of the pieces you will see on show:
Thomas Thwaites, "Unlikely Objects: Products of a
Counterfactual History of Science" (http://www.
thomasthwaites.com/unlikely-objects-products...
/)
Last year, their's "Making Together" was really
impressive. This year it will be much more!
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Palermo
In the meanwhile, Pamela keeps working on the
fantastic booklet series started a week ago at
Abadir.
These new experiments are really a superlike.
See the whole series at: http://www.facebook.
com/media/set/...
Pamela's (Special) Notebook
Series
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Milan
Altar for an Unknown Religion
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Should I stay or should I go?
Going around the city, there are several moments
when all sudden some places, or things, or
whatsoever become very special.
Like they were elements belonging to some
unknown religions or lost rituals (see post below).
Very nice feeling, indeed!
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Taiwan
My Present and Future Map
This is a fantastic image!
Ms Lingjing Yin's special map about her present &
future.
Very inspirational, thanxthanx!
(via Instagram)
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Sprengel Museum Hannover
Schwarzes Notizbuch VI,
1921/1923
To start the weekend with Kurt Schwitters' black
notebooks, ain't bad
http://www.sprengel-museum.de/.../tagung-im-
sprengel
Thanx to Giulia Fiorista for the link.
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Kronberg im Taunus
Julius Neubronner and
the Invention of Aerial
Photography
This is a very nice story. How Neubronner invented
aerial photography thanks to a special camera
attached to pigeons
http://www.juxtapost.com/...
/dr_julius_neubronner.../
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_photography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Neubronner
Thanks to Giulia Fiorista for the link!
More about Neubronner (in Italian) at: http:
//www.archiviocaltari.it/.../i-piccioni-fotografi...
/
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Parc del Gulliver
Gulliver's Park
This, I very like.
http://www.benandalice.com/.../gulliver-park-in-
valencia
http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.it/.../parque-
gulliver
More parks at:
http://www.businessinsider.com/coolest-
playgrounds-2012-6...
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Royal College Of Art
The Unspeakableness
Superlike!
The Unspeakableness is an ongoing project by Pei-
Ying Lin
"The Unspeakableness" investigates the essence of
human emotions. Through experiments of
different languages, sounds, body languages, and
the subtle elements of emotions, as well as
comparing the untranslatable emotion expressions
in different languages with English-based
researches on human emotions as a stepping stone
to discover mysterious qualities of the
unspeakableness between human emotions and
communications.
Here the link: http://untranslatable.peiyinglin.
net/
Stefanos facebook timeline 08/52 2013
Turin
Dendratom
Today, lots of nice stuff coming from the
GranTouristas chitchat. This one is a fabolous
piece by Massimo Maria Cotti, sometimes in the
late 1960's / early 1970's
Here to see the original drawings in higher
resolution:
http://www.studiocotti.com/Riviste.php
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/.../qGiCV9...
/s1600/arbol06blog.jpg
Thanx to Adelaide Testa for the link...
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United States
Waking Life
Very nice suggestion (I received some days ago).
To watch this movie by Richard Linklater (thanx to
miss Fiorista for the suggestion).
I watched it, very nice. Especially for the visual
technique:
The film used an animation technique based on
rotoscoping. Animators overlaid live action footage
(shot by Linklater) with animation that roughly
approximates the images actually filmed. This
technique is similar in some respects to the
rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi.
Rotoscoping itself, however, was not Bakshi's
invention, but that of experimental silent film
maker Max Fleischer, who patented the process in
1917. A variety of artists were employed, so the
feel of the movie continually changes, and gets
stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal,
shifting dreamscape.
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The animators used inexpensive "off-the-shelf"
Apple Macintosh computers. The film was mostly
produced using Rotoshop, a custom-made
rotoscoping program that creates blends between
keyframe vector shapes (the name is a play on
popular bitmap graphics editing software
Photoshop, which also makes use of virtual
"layers"), and created specifically for the
production by Bob Sabiston. Linklater would again
use this animation method for his 2006 film A
Scanner Darkly.
;o
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Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o
Link to Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Waking_Life