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Forgotten Architects: In the 1920s and early 1930s, German Jewish architects created some of the greatest modern buildings in Germany, mainly in the capital Berlin. A law issued by the newly elected German National Socialist Government in 1933 banned all of them from practicing architecture in Germany. In the years after 1933, many of them managed to emigrate, while many others were deported or killed under Hitler’s regime.
Pentagram Papers 37: Forgotten Architects is a survey of
43 of these architects and their groundbreaking work.
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at 5:38 AM on June 16, 2008
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"So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a song. I thought I’d scan the box covers and give you all
a look back into the fun of yesteryear."
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at 3:19 PM on April 21, 2008
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"Ten Thousand Cents"
is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.
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at 6:24 AM on April 12, 2008
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Compulse
- Drop the different blocks on the stage to affect the direction of the ball. Try to use as few as possible, but you may use as many as you want.
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at 5:20 AM on April 6, 2008
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VVork
is a blog showcasing contemporary art.
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at 3:37 PM on March 2, 2008
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Over the years millions of children have been introduced to a foreign language by
Big Muzzy [wiki], a friendly, green, clock-eating monster. Here's the complete British English version of Muzzy in Gondoland on YouTube:
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at 1:12 PM on December 16, 2007
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Record your bad (or good) raps, share them with the world and add to other people's raps at
RapHappy.
Via Projects.
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at 8:19 AM on September 26, 2007
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Else Marie Pade (b. 1924) is a phenomenon in the history of Danish music. As a child she was often ill and bedridden. She would listen to the sounds around her... on the stairs, from the yard and the room next to hers. This is where her audio universe began. During the Second World War, she was arrested by the Gestapo and placed in solitary confinement. Rather than despair, she began composing music on the bare prison walls, where she scratched the notes with the fasteners on her garters. After the war and her discovery of the concrete music of Pierre Schaeffer and the French avant-garde, she realized that the sounds resembled those she had heard in childhood, and that this was the music she really wanted to compose.
Read a long interview with Else Marie Pade here and
listen to her collected works here.
(Last link in Danish. Left column is production year, middle column is title. Click the bit rates on the right to listen to each work.)
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at 3:59 PM on July 30, 2007
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The Ad Generator
is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. What it actually does is that it randomizes words and structures from real advertising slogans and pairs them with related images from Flickr, generating fake ads on the fly.
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at 2:59 PM on January 24, 2007
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