Monthly Archives: October 2009

Zak Smith in Conversation With Alexandros Vasmoulakis

Zak Smith in Conversation With Alexandros Vasmoulakis 90% of my street work has been made in Athens/Greece. The political and social situation there is pretty loose and that gives room for anomie of all sorts. It is not necessary to get a … Continue reading

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Gaza thirsts as sewage crisis mounts

Gaza thirsts as sewage crisis mounts Gaza’s aquifer and only natural freshwater source is “in danger of collapse,” the UN is warning. Engineers have long been battling to keep the densely populated strip’s water and sewage system limping along. But … Continue reading

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Karlheinz Stockhausen “Klavierstuck IX”

100 years of futurism: from “The Art of Noises” (L’Arte dei Rumori) by Luigi Russolo To excite and exalt our sensibilities, music developed towards the most complex polyphony and the maximum variety, seeking the most complicated successions of dissonant chords and vaguely … Continue reading

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Stockhausen greets Duchamp

Is an image a container for visual information as opposed to the multi-contextual content presented like a palindrome in a mirror? (just think of rolling text that changes colour in a sequence of images)

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L’Europe, une passion turque

L’Europe, une passion turque L’écrivain turc publie «D’autres couleurs», un recueil d’essais, et parle des rapports intenses et conflictuels entre son pays et l’Europe par Orhan Pamuk prix Nobel de littérature 2006 Le Nouvel Observateur. – Vous avez grandi à … Continue reading

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Kemal for your (Raining) Pleasure

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Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957

Swiss Spaghetti Harvest 1957 BBC (April 1st 1957)

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Dripless Teapots

Dripless teapots: here’s my handle, here’s my superhydrophobic spout Why do teapots dribble? French scientists say it’s all about the simple subject of surface wettability The teapot dribble effect could be made a thing of the past, say French scientists, … Continue reading

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Tom Waits & Iggy Pop – Coffee and Cigarettes

east meets west

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Oracle Bones

Oracle Bones … The article describes the work of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University and the University of Arizona who have been studying cut marks on late Lower Paleolithic period animal bones from Qesem Cave in Israel. Their findings, recently … Continue reading

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