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"We've seen a definite spike" of about 40% since February, says Kim Springfield, vice president of sales for Health News, an Irvine, Calif., company that operates a national referral service for donors.]]> 40.7142 -74.0064 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:05:57 +0200
The Saatchi Gallery on King's Road, London, opened in October 2008 with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China. The current exhibition entitled "Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture" (runs until January 17, 2010) brings together new work of more than 40 American artists, among them: Kristin Baker, ...]]> 47.5667 7.6 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:26:38 +0200 48.8667 2.33333 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:25:51 +0200 37.775 -122.418 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:45:55 +0200
photo by Hine Mizushima
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Mr. Squid’s Handmade Moment]]> 37.775 -122.418 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:25:43 +0200 51.9167 4.5 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:25:41 +0200 37.9833 23.7333 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:05:39 +0200 Nguyen Duy Srederie, 26Systems engineer (French)He was very famous, so I was shocked when I heard of his death. I think many people in France were sad to learn about his death.

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"Every object tells a story" we sometimes hear, but rarely is that story spoken aloud, much less written down. Rob Walker has added another item to his long list of side projects (see Unconsumption and the 48-hour T-shirt project for others) in the form of Significant Objects, a weird and wonderful pairing of fiction and object culture that we wish we'd thought of first.

The simple premise: Walker and collaborator Joshua Glenn round up some great fiction writers, purchase a few cheap used objects from thrift shops and garage sales, then hand one to each writer. The resulting stories are published on the Significant Objects site, along with a link to an eBay shop where the newly Significant items can be purchased, and the proceeds directed to the writer.

Kurt Andersen of Studio 360 fame is on the roster, though his story hasn't appeared as we write this. What's been published already is surprising and seductive though, including Luc Sante's jewel heist caper about a Sanka-branded ashtray, and Ben Greenman's false history of a smiling mug as a WWII movie prop.



The stories are too short even to be called short stories -- a few paragraphs each -- but paired with the almost- but not-quite-kitschy thrift store finds, they take on a sort of meditative quality. Peering into each image and trying to imagine its history in the way these authors do is a strangely satisfying act. And what's better, after reading a few, we're tempted to start looking at other objects in the same way.(more...)]]> 40.7142 -74.0064 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:28:00 +0200
A simple sprite sheet

Update: Good news, everyone! A proper proposal for this kind of thing is already on its way. :)
CSS sprites are a nuisance
While CSS sprites offer nice performance benefits (less connections/overhead), they are troublesome in every respect. Putting lots of tiny images with different dimensions into one bigger image is fiddly and very hard – np-hard in fact. But that's the smallest issue. It doesn't need to be perfect after all. Deflate will happily squish all that extraneous white-space to virtually nothing.
One of the real problems is CSS. It just isn't flexible enough to let you do everything you might want to do with your sprite sheet. For example repeating parts of the image isn't possible. And if you want to display a sub region of an image in the upper right of some element, it only works if that sub region is in the lower left of the sprite sheet. So, the best thing you can do is to use elements in the size of the sub region and use background-position to slide the image around, but that usually means extra markup for something that should be very simple.
But it doesn't stop there. The real nightmare is maintenance. A year or two and several iterations later it becomes very hard to figure out which parts of the sheet are used. Where can you add one? Which one can be removed? How many places do you have to fix if you move this column a bit up? It all becomes a mess of fuzzy uncertainty.
CSS sprites are a huge time sink. They waste my time, they waste your time, and they also waste the time of millions of other front-end developers. It's about time to do something about it.
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New York, May 8, 2009--Three monks, leaders of the Saffron Revolution and now in exile in the US, speak out about the 2007 uprising against the Burmese military junta portrayed in Anders Østergaard's documentary BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, made in collaboration with undercover video journalists working for the Democratic Voice of Burma. The monks form part of the All Burma Monks' Alliance (ABMA) , located in Utica, which supports the many monks imprisoned in Burmese jails, where prisoners are not fed. ABMA also supports refugee monks who have escaped from incarceration and torture in Burma and works with other groups to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. See also the interview with Anders Østergaard and Khin Maung Win on this blog. BURMA VJ is currently in theatrical release and playing at the Film Forum in New York.Burmese with English translation and subtitles. ]]> 40.7142 -74.0064 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:19:54 +0100 BELOW: Untitled-1 @ 33.3% (Layer 4, Gray)

Both by Bruce MacPherson, work-in-progress sketches for the MathFactory, for Gallagher & Associates Design Proposal

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Below is the introduction from Time & Bits, Managing Digital Continuity edited by Margaret MacLean and Ben H. Davis, an eternity ago in 1998 for the Getty Research Institute.  [...]]]> 38.9011 -77.2656 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:34:30 +0200 44.5667 4.75 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:29:16 +0100 51.9167 4.5 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:37:33 +0200 37.775 -122.418 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:00:00 +0200 35.7719 -78.6389 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:25:57 +0200 ]]> 33.9817 -118.224 Tue, 05 May 2009 00:15:02 +0200 Shadow si libera da questa prigionia e si genera ogni volta senza stampo, senza vincoli formali e diventa poltrona ogni volta diversa.
Il poliuretano espanso direttamente nel rivestimento tessile si espande seguendo unicamente l’impronta del corpo e si solidifica generando imbottitura e struttura, il rivestimento si torce, si piega sempre in modo imprevedibile.
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Once again time render just above 6 hours for 800×572. RC feels great
Here’s the shaded view of the [...]]]> 52.25 21 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:44:06 +0200 -34.5875 -58.6725 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:03:57 +0100 These highly textured, hand-pulled editions exemplify the potential of modern fine art printmaking - [...]]]> 52.0833 1.16667 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:37:46 +0100 30.4381 -84.2808 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:56:51 +0200 53.55 10 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:59:59 +0100 Perugia. Uno dei primi interventi promossi da SEIPERUGIA sarà l'organizzazione di Chi SEI d'Estate ossia laboratori creativi per bambini e ragazzi. I laboratori partiranno tutte le mattine dal Lunedì al Venerdì dalle ore 8.30 alle ore 12.30 subito dopo la fine delle Scuole dal 22 giugno al 10 Luglio 2009 alla Città della Domenica e saranno offerti ai bambini e]]> 43.1333 12.3667 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:12:38 +0100 34.2647 -118.522 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:39:25 +0200
Love him or loathe what he allegedly became, there's no denying that Michael Jackson touched millions of lives with his music, artistry and iconic cultural status as the "King of Pop." Look here. He even inspired Jeff Koons who is, himself, no slouch in the pop culture sphere.

As for me, I will remember him simply as an integral part of my youth and thank him always for the music; we all have our personal soundtracks in Life. Selective memory, perhaps, but nonetheless valid.

By the way, Bubbles is alive, well and spending his days acting as chimpanzees are meant to at an animal preserve in Sylmar, California.

Image credit:

Jeff Koons (American, b. 1955)
Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1988
Ceramic
42 x 70 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.
(106.7 x 179.1 x 82.5 cm)
Photo � Douglas M. Parker Studio, Los Angeles
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica / � Jeff Koons]]> 40.7142 -74.0064 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:55:39 +0100 51.45 5.46667 Sat, 16 May 2009 16:50:04 +0200 Scialfa e Marletta affittano dal 2002 un edificio di fine ottocento nel vecchio quartiere di San Berillo alla periferia di Catania.






Formazione, Sperimentazione, ricerca con ristorante e foresteria per artisti nomadi.
Un buo esempio di impresa culturale autonoma.

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Musées]]> 45.75 4.85 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 +0200 40.7142 -74.0064 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:16:23 +0200 Gestern habe ich "Schmetterling und Taucherglocke" gesehen. Ein ergreifender und sehr bewegender Film. Habe ich nicht gedacht. Ich war froh, dass es dunkel war, da brauchte ich meine Tränen nicht zu verstecken. Meine Bewertung: Absolut sehenswert!]]> 48.3064 14.2861 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:16:23 +0200 Gestern habe ich "Schmetterling und Taucherglocke" gesehen. Ein ergreifender und sehr bewegender Film. Habe ich nicht gedacht. Ich war froh, dass es dunkel war, da brauchte ich meine Tränen nicht zu verstecken. Meine Bewertung: Absolut sehenswert!]]> 48.3064 14.2861 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:42:23 +0200 A new small online shop featuring unique handpainted examples of the series is now functioning.
An extensive, utterly stylish PDF catalogue with essay and pics is available for free download.]]> 52.5167 13.4 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:04:53 +0200 -34.5875 -58.6725 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:25:52 +0200 51.5 -0.116667 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:57:38 +0200 35.685 139.751 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:41:02 +0100



]]> 37.3772 -5.98694 Arts, New York, United States]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:04:47 +0200 39.6853 -93.9267 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:32:58 +0200 -34.9314 -57.9489 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:16:05 +0200 possa comprendere. E questo è quel che penso.
Gli amanti possono essere come uccelli
che volano nell’aria e nella luce. Ma dipende.
Oppure insetti ...]]> 40.8333 14.25 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:14:08 +0200 39.0839 -76.7006 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:45:53 +0200 “Computerworld报道，出席MIT一个会议的设计师和研究生透露了12美元电脑计划，希望作为每个孩子一台笔记本计划的更廉价选择。”
还MIT呢，如果这个家伙知道中国人早在十几年前就折腾出一堆的学习机估计都不好意思提出来呢。

再看看这副图，这个外国人只能感叹中国人的科技为啥领先这么多光年。
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“BOMBOLASSA” GRAFFITI JAM +
“STAY REAL” BREAKING CONTEST
@ TRINCEE 17-18-19 LUGLIO 2009

L'iniziativa dell'Associazione DUEVVENTI ha lo scopo di conciliare due diverse finalità: la riqualificazione dell'edificio, attualmente in stato di degrado esteriore, della palestra di Via delle Trincee, e l'organizzazione di una grande festa con protagonisti i giovani, con la quale rilanciare ...]]> -34.9314 -57.9489