Fire EXIT- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre Malin comme tout ! There’s a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it’ll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid. According to Bloomberg, this’ll be Apple’s 277th store, worldwide. It […]
- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009
Monthly Archives: September 2009
A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar
«A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar» This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course will be run in the form of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Education, MIT
Amy Winehouse – Tenderly (Live on Jools Holland)
Amy Winehouse – Tenderly (Live on Jools Holland)
Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative?
Does Falling in Love Make Us More Creative? Why does love make us think more globally? The researchers suggest that romantic love induces a long-term perspective, whereas sexual desire induces a short-term perspective. This is because love typically entails wishes … Continue reading
Yale Press drops distinctive logo
Yale Press drops distinctive Pail Rand logo
« Yale University Press began phasing out its distinctive logo, designed in 1985 by acclaimed graphic designer and former School of Art emeritus professor Paul Rand, in books published this fall»
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Tagged Design
Why are we still reading Dickens?
Why are we still reading Dickens? As someone who teaches and writes about Dickens, the question of why we still read him is something that’s often on my mind. But that question was never more troubling than one day, nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Publishing, Thought
What Have We Done to Democracy?
What Have We Done to Democracy? Arundhati Roy in The Nation: [I]s there life after democracy? Attempts to answer this question often turn into a comparison of different systems of governance, and end with a somewhat prickly, combative defense of … Continue reading
Aiming for the Future of Journalism
Why am I, a professor of journalism, encouraged to blog, tweet, and engage in public dialog about journalism, but still trusted to speak the “truth,” while journalists are not? Why am I not required to “relinquish some of the personal … Continue reading
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Tagged Bias, Ethics, Social media, Washington Post
The Vagrant Light of Stars
The Vagrant Light of Stars The Einstein Tomb project was created as a memorial to the life and work of Albert Einstein, a symbolic structure in the same spirit as Boullee’s Cenotaph to Isaac Newton. Because the self-effacing Einstein—who transformed … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture, Art, Science
Les étranges photos de Vera Lutter
Les étranges photos de Vera Lutter Vera Lutter, à la galerie Xippas (jusqu’au 24 octobre) mérite d’être mieux connue en France. Elle réalise des photos camera obscura de très grand format, la chambre étant en fait un caisson ou un … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Photography
Tweeple of the year, 1906 edition
Twitter in 1906, France «Aliocha then introduces a writer of whom I had never previously heard, Félix Fénéon, who for a few months in 1906 used the “News in Three Lines” column of Le Matin to tell stories in poetic … Continue reading →