Thursday, November 17, 2011

Chi non consuma non vale nulla

“Viviamo in una realtà edulcorata in cui il benessere è un circolo vizioso e comprare è diventato un valore morale perché bisogna far girare l’economia. I bisogni indotti sono diventati fondamentali e il consumismo è l’unico punto di riferimento di un mondo fasullo, dove chi non consuma non vale nulla. È una falsa società, basata su una falsa economia e una spettacolarizzazione di tutto. La svendita del corpo come mezzo per farsi strada in questa foresta è solo uno dei tasselli di un mosaico aberrante”   Margherita Hack.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Married to the Eiffel Tower



Amazing British documentary about women in romantic relationships with inanimate objects. Must see!

The Other F Word



This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians -- punk rockers -- become society's ultimate authorities -- dads.

The Future is Now!



What if your thermostat could learn from you?
What if it could build a schedule around what you like? Or figure out when you’re gone? Or show you how long it’ll take to warm up the house? What if your thermostat told you how much energy it used? And helped you to save even more? What if you could control it from your laptop and phone?
That would change everything.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Bikinikill Girlpower


Scoperte fatte nella luna Sig. Herschell (1836)



"In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York Sun, claimed that the noted British astronomer Sir William Herschel had discovered life on the moon. Flora and fauna included bat-men, moon maidens (with luna-moth wings), moon bison, and other extravagant life forms. Locke proposed an expedition to the moon using a ship supported by hydrogen balloons."

Bertrand Russell



 "Love is wise, hatred is foolish."

Hände


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I’m not a f***ing princes


Zum Interview mit Isabelle Huppert

Schädelkult - Kopf und Schädel in der Kulturgeschichte des Menschen


Unbedingt sehenswert: Schädelkult, eine Ausstellung des Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums in Mannheim.

The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses


From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history.
It is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of art created from human bone. These unique structures have been pushed into the footnotes of history; they were part of a dialogue with death that is now silent.

The sites in this specially photographed and brilliantly original study range from the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Palermo, where the living would visit mummified or skeletal remains and lovingly dress them; to the Paris catacombs; to fantastic bone-encrusted creations in Austria, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and elsewhere.

Paul Koudounaris photographed more than seventy sites for this book. He analyzes the role of these remarkable memorials within the cultures that created them, as well as the mythology and folklore that developed around them, and skillfully traces a remarkable human endeavor. 290 photographs, 260 in color.  

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Katzen sind so cool...

Beautiful Detroit

mehr hier

Gruseliges aus der Pfalz

"In Herxheim bei Landau stießen Archäologen auf einen Sensationsfund. Sie bargen die Überreste von über 500 Toten aus der Jungsteinzeit. Aber wie kamen diese vor mehr als 7000 Jahren zu Tode? Die Körper waren systematisch zerstückelt. Die Schädeldächer waren aufwändig abgetrennt. Die Experten gehen davon aus, dass es sich dabei um ein von Gewalt geprägtes Ritual handelt."

hier der Podcast

Las Vegas home movies from 1962


Las Vegas 1962 from Jeff Altman on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Portlandia: Women and Women First Bookstore




I love unicorns...

Women are Heroes

Use art to turn the world inside out



Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Macht kaputt was Euch kaputt macht

Seit 1970 hat sich NICHTS geändert!

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History

Schon lange überfällig: Eine Doku über das Scheitern der Public housing Bewegung am Beispiel von Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis.



Einen sensiblen Einblick in das Leben der Bewohner bietet Behing ghetto walls von Lee Rainwater

Der Wiki-Artikel zu Pruitt-Igoe ist übrigens auch lesenswert.

Ich bin jedenfalls sehr gespannt auf die Doku. Wer noch?

Il Corviale

Wenn ich schon dabei bin:
Il Corviale ist ein weiteres gescheitertes Public housing Projekt. 1965 begonnen und nie vollendet, erstreckt es sich in einem äußerst unangenehmen Stadtteil Roms über fast einen Kilometer und erliegt mehr und mehr dem Zerfall.

Das ist scheinbar auch der Grund für die schwarz-weiß Poetik in folgendem Beitrag:



Hier mehr über die Initiative der Bewohner.

Zur Stadtentwicklung Roms nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gab es kürzlich eine Ausstellung im Museuo dell'Ara Pacis.

Ein Bild der Wohnsitutation in der ewigen Stadt zeichnet John David Rhodes sehr eindrucksvoll im ersten Kapitel seines Buches Stupendous, miserable city: Pasolini's Rome.