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Month July 2010

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La Collectionneuse

Jul 28, 10 8:14 AM

La Collectionneuse by Éric Rohmer

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Paysages en Exil

Jul 27, 10 12:16 AM

By Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon

PAYSAGES EN EXIL seeks to create, along the hospital of La Grave in Toulouse, an experimental journey in which the visitor is invited to explore an unlikely landscape, a condensation of climates, a mix of Natures from all over the world. The project finds its genesis in the description of “wandering plants phenomenon” made by Gilles Clément :

“Plants travel. Grass mostly. They silently move in the way of the winds. Nothing can stop the wind. By harvesting clouds, one would be surprised to get imponderable seeds mixed with loess, fertile dusts. In the sky yet unforeseeable landscapes are being designed. Chance organizes the details, uses every possible vehicle to distribute the species. Everything suits the transport, from ocean currents to shoe soles. Most of the trip belongs to animals. Nature charters birds, berry eaters, gardening ants, subversive and quiet sheeps, which fleece holds fields and fields of seeds. And also man. Restless animal, always in the move, free swapper of diversity.”

In an acclimatization space – a long agricultural greenhouse – are prepared medicinal plants seedlings coming from the five continents. Having “blindly” chosen one of them, the visitor continues its journey and enters a thick cloud, a dense mist born from the spraying of the Garonne river, on the Viguerie footbridge. At the end of this vaporous trail, a surprising garden welcomes him, inviting him to plant the seedling that he has carried so far.

Installation for the national art event “Imaginez Maintenant”
01/07 to 04/07/2010
Hôpital de La Grave – Toulouse

Music : Michael Andrews – Socks on ears

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Matisse: Radical Invention

Jul 27, 10 12:16 AM

From The New Yoker, by Peter Schjeldahl

“Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917,” a power-packed show at the Museum of Modern Art, surveying the most adventurous phase of one of the greatest modern painters, prompts the writer to ruminate on his preference for Matisse’s “The Piano Lesson” (1916) and compare it to his preference for the movie “Psycho.” On themes hardly apt for great art, both exalt their mediums by sabotaging normal orders of response. “The Piano Lesson” renders a sweet domestic scene huge and dead flat, with violently summarizing forms and colors that we seem to see before we can start looking at them. The MOMA show—curated by Stephanie D’Alessandro, of the Chicago Art Institute, and John Elderfield—is an analytical exercise, focused in scholarly minutiae and the lavish use of X-rays, laser scanning, and other current gadgets of the field. The show pays exhaustive attention to “Bathers by River,” which lacks the surplus joy and generous story-telling of “The Piano Lesson.” Matisse had no argument with the conventional uses and meanings of painting. We enjoy what such an artist does to the point of almost feeling that we have done it ourselves. The key reward is a sense of complicity in our own excitement, as if our mere appetite conjured the means of its gratification.

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Inception: Architecture of the Mind

Jul 27, 10 12:16 AM

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Evolution of the Shrug: Darwin’s Principle of Antithesis

Jul 27, 10 12:15 AM
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The Lacemaker by Tord Boontje

Jul 26, 10 8:34 AM

Via Dezeen, photographs by Phil Sayer

Dutch designer Tord Boontje presents a collection of work made with lace-making techniques from materials including grass and raffia at the Marsden Woo Gallery in London.

Called The Lacemaker, the collection was created for the Design Centre at Philadelphia University in response to their collection of Quaker lace.

Some of the more delicate works are items of jewellery, such as necklaces and a hairpiece, and a selection of test samples made in a variety of natural materials, including grass.

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Do Typefaces Really Matter?

Jul 26, 10 8:33 AM

Via BBC

To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant. Yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers, says Tom de Castella.

When Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time was released, one section of the audience was immediately outraged. Graphic designers hated it. Why? They didn’t like the font that director James Cameron had chosen for the subtitles.

“I hated it on the posters and then threw up a little in my mouth when I realised I would have to read that ugly font throughout the film in the subtitles,” one blogger commented. “After the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on CG effects, did he just run out of money for a decent graphic designer?”

And yet fonts are not just for geeks. Otherwise why would organisations around the world spend so much time and money changing their typeface?

Typeface or font?

* A typeface is the specific letterform design of an alphabet
* A font is a collection of all the characters of a typeface, including capital letters and lowercase letters, numerals and punctuation marks
* For letterpress printing, using hot metal, a font was produced for every size and style of typeface, but today fonts are delivered as a digital software file that caters for all sizes of a typeface
* That is why the words font and typeface are often interchanged

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Richard Dawkins and the Selfish Gene

Jul 26, 10 8:33 AM

In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.

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FAILE Temple

Jul 26, 10 8:32 AM

Video by Stick2Target

FAILE latest project has made a huge impact to whoever passes by. Placed in one of the busiest avenues in Lisboa, Portugal, the integration of the Temple Project within the very fabrics of the city serve a crucial role in granting audiences the ability to engage and interact on their own terms.

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2010 Le Tour de France Data Visualization

Jul 24, 10 7:35 AM

By Jerome Daksiewicz

Visualization of all teams and riders at the 2010 TdF including riders countries of origin, team bike sponsorship, individual stage winners, the route map and a list of all TdF winners.

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