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      13 May 2008

      Welcome to Liberty City

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      txt: Grand Theft Auto IV
      Welcome to liberty City, where people are angry and lonely, and the taxes sky high
      What does the American Dream mean today? For Niko Bellic, fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past. For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can find fortune in Liberty City, gateway to the land of opportunity. As they slip into debt and are dragged into a criminal underworld by a series of shysters, thieves and sociopaths, they discover that the reality is very different from the dream in a city that worships money and status, and is heaven for those who have them and a living nightmare for those who don't.
      video: Grand Theft Auto IV Trailer 1 "Things Will Be Different" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80K51DosFo]
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      13 May 2008

      Wall Animation

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      via: Wooster Collective link: blublu.org video: MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4] txt: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
      We don't need no education We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. "Wrong, Do it again!" "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" "You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"
      video: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (1980) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aIQyL9Mh0]
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      11 May 2008

      The Venice Factory

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      Gondolas full of tourists. In the background the renovation works' scaffolding of the Punta della Dogana de Mar (also known as Punta della Salute). Project: architect Tadao Ando, $$ François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi. img: The Venice Factory - oddtag on flickr.com
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      11 May 2008

      The Art Factory

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      txt: Pinault, Ando et Cacciari lancent la Pointe de la Douane
      Hier après-midi, devant la presse internationale et les autorités locales, François Pinault, président de Palazzo Grassi a présenté, avec Tadao Ando, le projet architectural du futur centre d'art contemporain à la Pointe de la Douane. En présence du maire de Venise, Massimo Cacciari, ils ont annoncé l'iminent début des travaux afin d'assurer une ouverture du site à l'occasion de la prochaine Biennale d'art contemporain, en juin 2009.
      txt: Manifesto - Aurora Street associazione culturale
      The bell tower clock strikes seven in the evening. In the central hall of the Venice Museum darkness falls, shrouding the blackened remains of what was once the main square of our city. This is where our ancestors met to do what the inhabitants of every city do in their main squares: stroll, meet with friends, converse and maybe even enjoy an ice-cream while sitting at one of the many square’s Caffès, letting their thoughts dance to the notes of the small orchestras. Today it seems that the aim of the Museum is to reproduce that atmosphere of past times for visitors with the same effective suggestion as a washed-out photograph fixed on the tombstones of people who have been buried.
      img: Punta Dogana e Santa Maria della Salute - Catching Flies on flickr.com
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      9 May 2008

      Berlin ist arm aber sexy

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      via: stylesreportberlin.com txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
      Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show you art in a different way. Urban Contemporary is a term for art that is also recognized as “Street Art” or “Urban Art”, Graffiti and Skateboard culture as its roots. After years in the “underground” this art movement has found his way into the art scene through the addition of more commercial elements like fine illustration, comic and graphic design. Some of the artists are already well known, like for example Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Doze Green, Banksy and others. Let’s come to a point and say: Urban art is a creative melting pot of several different techniques whether they are so called “classic painting” (oil or acrylic) or made with spraycans, markers, stencils, stickers, analog or digital. It reflects our suburban living and the way we think about it. In the end, it’s important so say: There is not really a frontier between so called “fine art” and so called “urban art”. The space between both is liquid. It depends on you - it’s mostly the way you look at it and the way YOU feel it!
      video: Berlin's Street Art 2008 - thankyouradio on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs9MFG1OqH0]
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      9 May 2008

      Viva la Infolution

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      txt: Web 3.0: You say you’re on an infolution? Well, you know…
      Social web = democratic web Web 2.0 is the base for a democratic web. But like all democratic systems, the web needs basic democratic standards. Yes, rules. Simple democratic rules that apply to coding, design (usability is a form of politeness) and communication (not even Kramer has the right to insult). These rules are not there to bore, restrict or subordinate us, they guarantee to get the maximum out of a collective. They guarantee a maximum amount of freedom for the maximum amount of people. What is new in web 3.0? Nothing. Recently there is a lot of talk about Web 3.0. Phil Wainewright form ZD Net has written a series on the subject and relaunched the discussion of what web 3.0 would or should be. Basically he suggests that Web 3.0 is going to deliver a new generation of (business) applications that will be ubiquitous and technically more sophisticated, semantic (programs understanding human language). The question is: Is artificial intelligence what we really need? Is more technology the answer? Shouldn’t we rather bring to an end what we’ve started before we hype up the machinery even more?
      link: Web 2.0 unchains free market img: Revolution Lounge - gonzalo fernandez on flickr.com
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      7 May 2008

      Creating a World Without Poverty

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      txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
      Three themes are central to this book. The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor. The second theme is the role of women as drivers of the coming revolution. Current social arrangements especially victimize poor women. If the creativity, energy, and desire for family improvement that are latent in hundreds of millions of the world's women can be unleashed, nothing can stand in their way. The third theme is technology as a crucial enabler of the revolution. New ways of managing and communicating information are already changing lives the world over. Now these tools must be made available to everyone, including residents of the most remote villages in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The result will be decentralization of economic andpolitical power as worldwide markets in ideas, goods, and services become accessible to all.
      img: Dreaming Girls Head
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      6 May 2008

      Cognitive surplus, gin and art

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      txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
      The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset. [...] And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads. This is a pretty big surplus. People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally being dragged into what Tim calls an architecture of participation. Now, the interesting thing about a surplus like that is that society doesn't know what to do with it at first--hence the gin, hence the sitcoms. Because if people knew what to do with a surplus with reference to the existing social institutions, then it wouldn't be a surplus, would it? It's precisely when no one has any idea how to deploy something that people have to start experimenting with it, in order for the surplus to get integrated, and the course of that integration can transform society.
      video: Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=862384&dest=-1]
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      5 May 2008

      Yes we Can

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      via: Video From The Cans Festival - Wooster collective txt: www.woostercollective.com
      woo·ster (noun) A street in the Soho section of New York City col·lec·tive (noun) Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision. The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.
      video: Cans Festival London - KrisBlomme on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DKrxk1E_yw]
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      5 May 2008

      Body and soul: the women art

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      links: Vanessa Beecroft Marina Abramovic Maureen Fleming video: Vanessa Beecroft - "VB55" (1 Of 2) - see also "VB55" (2 Of 2) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wut1PDf74Dc] video: Marina Abramovic [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno1gCrbeVk] video: Maureen Fleming - Mother and Child excerpt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1umh8mBLCA]
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