Great evening: ART ZOYD & METROPOLIS BY FRITZ LANG. It is the third time I watch Metropolis. It is the first time I watch it accompanied with music. Download Art Zoyd's .pdf on Metropolis. Art Zoyd is fantastic!
Fritz Lang’s black/white masterpiece Metropolis projected onto the wall of the last historical industry building at the Harbour of Copenhagen to music of the ground-breaking avant-rock band, Art Zoyd.
Experience the Metropolis Biennale opening with the ultimate cult film that provided endless discussions and became implemented on the world political arena. Fritz Lang’s black/white Metropolis film will be shown in city parameters on the outer wall of a massive storage tower in Copenhagen harbour – a building that is going to be demolished in due course.
“Metropolis will have no equal”, said the master of movies, Luis Bunuel, after the premiere in 1927. The ground-breaking French avant-rock band Art Zoyd accompanies the film with their minimalist installations and compositions created specific for this film.
Fritz Lang’s masterpiece experienced on a massive screen accompanied by live music is a unique cocktail you won’t forget. (Metropolis website biennale)
The collaboration of the German designer Stephan Ganz (It is actually his graduating project) and Porsche Design studios and Porsche Design engineering. It allows people with reduced mobility to stand up. What I like about the design it is that the object is both, a mode of transportation and a prosthetis.
Via Dezineo.
Back from Zurich, where we disscussed the future of the workplace: workplace2010. Thank you to the organizers: Jeffrey Huang, Silke Lang, Alvise Simondetti, Mark Meagher, Isabelle Bentz, Nicolas Nova! Few pictures:
First exercise... everyone had brought a picture of his workplace... to annotate. I like the picture of Roberto Vitalini: "Virtual Companions for Single Workers" ;)
In a team with Mark Meagher and Marc Schmit from Playze!
Working on a platform enabling total flexibility and visualization of the workplace, the workmate and work community. In ligne with some ideas developed in my thesis... taxi-city.
Thanks to D.K., I could put a name on the strange vehicle spoted in the streets of Copenhagen:
This is a Bubble car (a post WW2 production)! It immediately reminded me of the Cushicle by Archigram... (1966) and the Suitsalon (1967) (BTW, isn't Orta's Refuge Wear City Interventions 1993-1998 in the lineage of the Suitsalon? and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, 1972, so related to Archigram? I like hypertexting :) This is to say that I am quite impressed by Archigram's sensibility toward their post WW2 everyday, and their subsequent mental assemblages.
Kronprinsessegade, the street where my office is... Totally disorienting for a tourist :) It is covered with another street name, a hack performed by an artist in protest of the demolition of the youth house: more info on
guerrilla innovation.
A mobile graffiti? Seen on the red line... Boston-Cambridge, MA.
This below is the advertising campaign of WWF (China) to help us visualize the volume of harmful CO2 emitted daily by traditional modes of transportation. info via Le Blog du Marketing Alternatif. Isn't car sharing a good alternative?
At the
GSD, to watch the documentary movie
Bigger than Barbie... The event was organized by the SoCA (Social Change and Activism) group and
Loeb fellows.
Monkeybiz was selling their craft: "All profits go back into the communities via payment for bead art and the provision of community services." I saw this handicraft above... Cute how the cellphone culture influences our creativity!
DiMo workshop last Thursday, 8am - 10am
