When visualization adds value to the information: an inspiring example.
link: www.informationisbeautiful.net - debtris
video: Debtris US - infobeautiful on youtube
video: The Joy of Stats - on youtube - Hans Rosling shows how all the countries of the world have developed since 1809.
Merry Xmas from the oddtag. Let's do something good, if you can. Be good!
Buon Natale da oddtag. Fate qualcosa di buono, se potete. State bene!
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Join Shakira and sign your name for those who can't - Upload your dance video as a comment to this video with just clicking on the comment box (on the right side of the box you will see ATTACH A VIDEO, click on this and follow the instructions)
txt: Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals - Exhibition | The National Gallery, London
Contrary to our expectations perhaps, eighteenth-century Venetian view painting was both rich and varied. It was also a form of painting almost entirely shaped by the tastes and aspirations of foreign visitors to the city. The eighteenth-century Venice of Canaletto and his rivals was, to almost every visitor, a place of wonder.
video: Canaletto Exhibition Introduction | Exhibitions | The National Gallery, London
txt: Ben Eine - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eine is most notable for his alphabet lettering on shop shutters in London's Shoreditch, Brick Lane and Broadway Market areas. Some of these letters have been mapped for ease of finding.[3] He has also taken his lettering to the streets of Paris, Stockholm, Hastings and Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to becoming involved in commercial graffiti, Eine was a very famous and highly credible writer in the underground London graffiti scene. [...] Eine first came to prominence in the "commercial" graffiti scene through his symbiotic partnership with London graffiti artist Banksy; through Eine, Banksy was able to access the underground scene and through Banksy Eine accessed the commercial world. Impressed by the work of Banksy Eine chose to focus on "commercial" graffiti.
txt: Ben Eine Paints Pro Pro Pro on the side of Mother London
Venice is a starting point, a call to go, a special destination in a world of ends. It can be so big, and so small. So open, but so closed (you know, thorns and roses..). I like the lagoon, when the vaporetto approaches to the islands, in the autumn mist. People come here from everywhere, speak all the languages, wear in completely different ways. And they go away. It's a place of the world, and of the soul.
video:: Wanderlust - Thinklab on vimeo.com
see also:
- Venice Biennale 2011 national participations: names, links, places
- Venice Biennale 2011: the collateral events
- Venice Biennale 2011 map / mappa della Biennale di Venezia 2011
The 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will take place in 2011, directed by Bice Curiger. The title chosen is ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations - Preview: 1-2-3 June 2011 - Official Opening: 3 June 2011 - Public opening: 4 June/27 November 2011
txt: 54th International Art Exhibition
The Biennale is one of the most important forum about knowledge and the 'enlightenment' of new developments of international art. The title of 54. Exposition, ILLUMInations literally puts the spotlight on the importance of these developments in a globalized world.
VideoEgg buys Six Apart and changes name to Say Media.
txt: saymedia.com/about
A modern media company is rooted in the fact that we rely on our friends and influencers to point us to media that’s worth our time. Only the richest experiences win. A modern media company connects paid and earned media via an integrated brand-marketing platform that yields meaningful and measurable returns. It’s the only accountable way to engage social consumers at scale. A modern media company syndicates absorbing content across digital and mobile environments, lighting the way for brands and creators. The result is attention, and the reach is 330 million people a month. SAY Media is a modern media company.
video: SAY Media Explained on vimeo.com
Finally together four of the best cultural institutions in Venice: Conservatory Benedetto Marcello, Accademia di Belle Arti, Theater La Fenice , Venice Biennale. If good ideas will save us (and Venice), this is one of them. In times where money is too tight (to mention), join together must be one of the answers. Bis! Again please!
txt: Don Giovanni in Venice 23 > 25 September Palazzo Pisani, Conservatorio B. Marcello of Venice Labyrinth Opera
The Don Giovanni by Mozart becomes Don Giovanni a Venezia, a totally new opera installation that inaugurates the 54th Festival and presents itself as a synthesis of the themes running through it. A concentration of many simultaneous events – musical, scenic, theatrical, visual – dispersed throughout the spaces of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice and cyclically “switched on”, Don Giovanni a Venezia disrupts our perceptive habits and creates interference between different eras. Conceived by director Luca Francesconi, Don Giovanni a Venezia is a singular experiment in production with young artists from the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello and the Accademia di Belle Arti who will measure themselves on the professional stage against the singers and musicians of one of the major opera theatres, the Teatro La Fenice, against the composers, soloists and actors involved in this operation. A complex stage organization, engaging over 130 artistic and technical professionals, made possible by the joint commitment of four Venetian institutions: the participants in this project by the Music Biennale are the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, which not only put its young musicians and composers to work, but also offered its historic headquarters at Palazzo Pisani in Campo Santo Stefano, one of the most fascinating Venetian palaces, as the venue for the performance; the Teatro La Fenice, which involved its entire choir and orchestra ensemble, and opened its storerooms to lend the costumes and props; and the Accademia di Belle Arti, which will create the sets for Palazzo Pisani.
video: Don Giovanni e Zerlina, Biennale Musica, Venezia - veneziadavivere on youtube
video: Don Giovanni Venezia 2010 1/3 - signorinaermione on youtube