Number 59. Hmph.(RT @LATimesbooks: America's most literate cities and more book news http://t.co/8sH8U47F...)...
Dans les années 1970, « le fond de l'air est rouge » et les révolutionnaires se battent les armes à la main, de l'Amérique latine à l'Asie.
The Mumpsimus: Here's a fabulous article by Lili Loofbourow from The Hairpin that presents excerpts from a book she discovered on Project Gutenberg, Are Women People? It's full of awesomeness, but the Delany-ologist in me particularly liked this bit about pockets:
Are Women People?
Three floors rented out to the Japanese highway system...
For the most part, 16-story buildings in Osaka do not stick out that much. That is unless of course, a highway cuts through them, allowing cars to race through the fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
One of the strangest looking sites in the world, the side of the Gate Tower Building simply opens up like a mouth to release traffic coming off of the Hanshin Expressway. Futuristic-looking and against all classic notions of creating high rises, the Gate Tower Building is actually the result of a compromise between the Japanese government and landowners who had staked a claim on the land back in the mid-19th century.
In a city that boasts a thriving community of locally owned businesses, artists, musicians and writers, it’s no wonder that Sacramento has a stunning array of public art displays that have taken the form of murals on the sides of buildings...
EyeEm is a photo-sharing and discovery app that connects people through the photos they take. Snap a photo and see where it takes you! It's free.
http://www.mural-design.com This is a mural that I have been itching to paint for some time now as I have always been fascinated with the eclectic facades an...
In his new book 'Black Rock City, NV: The Ephemeral Art of Burning Man,' photographer Philippe Glade shows just how stylish--and functional--many of the attendee-created structures at the annual arts event can be.
from June 2009:
The Mountainair Gymkhana Rodeo is probably one of the best supported and attended local events, each monthly event bringing as many or more outside visitors to town as the big annual events. The season total is probably more than for any other single event. Yet many newcomers and even some locals know relatively little about the events... or that nationally ranked Mountainair athletes are far more likely to be competing in rodeo events than on school sports teams.
Our thanks to Red Kingston for explaining the NM youth rodeo system.
+ link to 23 additional images of pedestrian signals from around the world.
Semiotics is the scientific study of signs and their linguistic meaning. It is about the relationship between a sign and what it represents. It is about how people determine the meaning of signs. A sign is considered anything (a symbol, an icon, a sound, a picture and so on) that stands for another thing.
Holiday altars and artwork will remain on display at the San Juan Capistrano library.
Just in time for the rescheduled rapture, the 92Y Tribeca will be hosting its third annual Doomsday Film Festival and Symposium from this Friday through January. Included in the exhibit...
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925...
I Bought a Little City by Donald Barthelme, Nov 11, 1974
The little city of Galveston, Texas was purchased & its new owner promised the residents that drastic changes would not be made overnight. Galveston suited him just fine so he began to make changes.
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Space is never something that people simply use; we make meaning out of space through how we use it.
A new book on the philosopher's American reception soft-pedals his dark influence.
Interventionist Librarianship - I like the sound of that. An open course too and talk about accreditation.
Public Praxis is an autonomous course offered through the Art School in the Art School (1003 East Fayette Street, Apartment 8, above the Spark Art Space) where we try to build the library of the future.
For more on the need for a networked, autonomous accreditation system, see our Public School NY course description. http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/3568
Brooklyn's fabled history, as told through its many great writers (A Legible Story of Place http://t.co/djoVED63 frm @CityJournal << when places are defined negatively #placeidentity...
Baudelaire's Paris ebook. Nonfiction ebooks & Poetry ebooks & Travel ebooks.
It turns out Paris has its own elevated railway park, and it's been around since 1993. We also have the best eco travel destinations for 2012, a floating home for urban animals, and more.
Great Literature Of Cats 101: If only literature courses were actually this interesting. These mockups offer a feline spin to the ...
Three-time Pulitzer prize nominee P. Kellach Waddle and the musicians of PKWproductions return to Book People with their first presentation of the year in the PKWproductions "A Synthesis of Music and Literature" series. This concert will feature new music written by Waddle inspired by works of Ernest Hemingway. Before each new musical work, Waddle will also give short lectures and commentary on the three novels which inspired this presentation's music : A Farewell To Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom The Bell Tolls.
How to deliver a Big Society - a place that acts as a catalyst to and inspires grassroots local activism - in the most bureaucratic, statist and controlled public space of them all: the built environment?
Excerpt: Diego Rivera murals arrive at MOMA...
Planning for “Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art” was well in hand by the time the Occupy Wall Street crew took over Zuccotti Park in September, but you’ve got to admire MoMA’s sense of timing.
‘Civilisation’s going to pieces,’ Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.
So opens Pankaj Mishra in London Review of Books on historian Niall Ferguson's Civilisation: The West and the Rest ....
....books are known less for their original scholarly contribution than for containing some provocative counterfactuals.
Mexico City – one of the world’s greatest, and most populated cities. Recent law have placed height limits on new buildings in this, one of our alpha global cities. So, architects BNKR Arquitectura (pronounced Bunker) have come up with what you might call something of a plan. Mexico City can no longer have any new skyscrapers (indeed, any building more than eight storeys in height). So what about the world’s first earthscraper instead?
This new architectural extravaganza has been designed to fit right in the middle of Mexico City. It has been mooted that this amazing upside down pyramid could be built in (or rather under) The Zócalo, the main plaza or square in the heart of the historic center of Mexico City. It will be a snug fit, too – at least from external appearance. Below is how the earthscraper might look, as well as how the plaza looks today.
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