Godzilla vs. Skateboarders, an exhibit “making the rounds of Canadian art galleries since 2001″ shows what architects and city planners can learn from skateboarding. The Dominion writes about it today: The show offers many potential avenues of exploration for architects and city planners. From public housing with integrated skater-friendly half-pipes to art that “subverts the [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Japanese Expo to Celebrate Nature and Technology
What to do when pitching visions of the future to a world audience increasingly jaded by them? This is the dilemma facing Japan as it gets ready to host the world expo Aichi 2005, which opens March 25. Recent world expos have been met with disinterest, a far cry from the past when glimpes of [...]
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Frank and Sirius
R.U. Sirius interviews Tom Frank in a new, liberal news portal, The Raw Story RU: Perhaps the big mistake made by counterculture in the late sixties/early seventies was in thinking that it should be a revolution against capitalism in the first place. I still lean a bit to the left of the Democratic Party myself, [...]
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Boutique-Crazy Bangkok
The Bangkok Post spills the goods on the the over-the-top obsession for “boutique”-anything that has hit Thailand. The interior of the so-called boutique bowling alleys have been changed to emphasize entertainment instead of the sport itself: there are glow-in-the-dark marking units and playful furniture; the design of the bowling shoes is more fashionable and the [...]
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Roosters on Parade
What could be more San Francisco glamorous than Chinese New Year? Don’t bother answering; The parade and other festivities happen this weekend, and all other suitors are out of our thoughts. But if image and a sense of timeless joy is really what fuels the urge to celebrate, we’d have to say that the parade [...]
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Dark, German Tropics
About an hour’s drive from Berlin, in the small town of Brand, a Malaysian man has set up a tropical resort inside an ex-Soviet dirigible hanger. The New York Times says there might be some kinks in the plan, “described by the enthusiastic staff as normal for a start-up.” Among the most conspicuous is that [...]
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