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Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
Tuesday, September 25th • Comments (0)
The Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York exhibit opens at the Municipal Art Society in NYC.
As an exhibition opening today at the Municipal Art Society reminds us, Jane Jacobs did not believe that planners could ever restore life to American cities. Instead she put her faith in the chaos of urban life, in diversity, in people — the grocery store owner, the young mother, the child playing in the street, the watchful busybodies leaning out of windows. Cities were at their best, she wrote, when the “ballet of the sidewalks” was evident, a dance that was intrinsically “spontaneous and untidy.” Her prescription was simply not to get in its way.
Read more about Jacobs and the exhibit at the NYTimes.
Graffiti Archaeology
Friday, September 21st • Comments (0)
Graffiti Archaeology is a study of the changes made to graffiti covered surfaces over time.
“If I said something every time I saw something coming, we would never get anything done around here.” –Artie
Wired magazine’s Geekipedia.
September 15th is Software Freedom Day
The New Robot
Friday, September 14th • Comments (0)
The New Robot is an open source four legged robot being developed by the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The robot’s open development and programming platform lends itself to a variety of both hardware and software uses and variations.
Behold is a photo search engine that responds to queries by recognizing visual concepts inside of images.
Rome
Wednesday, September 12th • Comments (0)
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Branagh’s Magic Flute
Kenneth Branagh is filming an English version of Mozart’s final opera, The Magic Flute. The opera, originally penned in German, has been translated into English for the film and the setting updated to World War I Europe. Ingmar Bergman also made a movie version of the Magic Flute in 1975.
