Apple challenges mobile operators
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
It might sound obvious, but Apple SIM is Apple’s own SIM standard – and it’s been threatening to instigate it for years. Traditional SIM cards are physical chips that act as network keys for a single account attached to a single network operator, but Apple SIM isn’t tied to any network and is software-based. But
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M. Chat: street art meows
Monday, 19 January 2015
Thoma Vuille, alias Monsieur Chat, introduces us to his site with a mission statement: “The context of my work is the city, its streets, its walls, and the eyes of those who live there. I try to create supports for the narrative of the city by its inhabitants, who participate in the creation and exchange
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Stunning Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
Monday, 19 January 2015
See these 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º— the golden angle. If you
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The splendor, the fall and rebirth: Teatro Farnese in Parma
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
When Charles Dickens visited the Teatro Farnese in Parma, found it in a state of disrepair: holes in the roof, rotten wood, rags hanging overblown, mice everywhere. What was the ultimate expression of the ambition of Ranuccio I Farnese lay desolate, shadow of a past that glorified the dynasty and that, for this reason, the
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Max Klinger: the unconscious of reality
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
Accustomed as we are to the idea of the suffered and perhaps disturbed artist, it is almost surprising to read a character with a full and happy life: Max Klinger. Born in Leipzig February 18th, 1857, he has the good fortune to grow up in a family of wealthy middle class that encourages his early
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The light of hope in the reportage by Alessandro Gandolfi
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
A child. With yellow shirt and vest also profiled of yellow, blue hat and two big eyes behind new lenses, those lenses that allow him to see his world. And then an old man who hides behind his ophthalmologists’ test glasses, the wonder of a view recovered. Andhō in Nepali means blind, and in rural
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New Hollywood II, an exhibition rediscovers classics
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
You go at a festival to discover new talents. This is its mission. And to understand how the great of today were influenced by the geniuses of yesterday. Sometimes the two goals fit together! Especially if we talk about great American filmmakers still active that then were moving the first steps. Meanwhile, we mourn the
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Happy drawings and crazy animals: Luka Va
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
Luka Va, a male name for a female Lithuanian illustrator with a great sense of humor who lives in Melbourne, Australia, and paints – by her own admission – “happy drawings” and “crazy animals”. As recounted in several interviews, she is always looking for new and different techniques, but every time she tries to do
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The Cal in Milan
Tuesday, 09 December 2014
It is called The Cal, as if it were the one and only calendar in the world. Born in 1963 from a brilliant marketing operation of Pirelli UK which has transformed a gadget for truckers into a sought cult, Pirelli calendar is an object of desire – only a small number of powerful customers and
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The Magical Cats Academy
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Curiously that, the very day on which in Italy falls the Feast of the Black Cat, I find myself writing – one more time – about cats. Since the dawn, as is well known, the cat is considered the magical animal par excellence: worshipped as deities, demonized as a familiar of witches, even studied by
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