As American students continue to pick their noses in front of recession era fireplaces, ahead of Christmas, in England their counterparts are pissed at the system. As American students continue to pick their noses in front of recession era fireplaces, ahead of Christmas, in England their... View full entry
The New City Reader is a newspaper of public space curated in NYC's New Museum. The classified section will be guest edited by LGNLGN ,a think tank on architectural publishing, and we are looking for anyone to post a free advertisement. LGNLGN | New City Reader | The New City Reader is a... View full entry
As Google Street View vastly expands to all ends of the world, the pool of bizarre and whimsical snapshots grows steadily. Among plenty of prostitution, police arrests, wrecked cars and stretched out middle fingers, the blog The Nine Eyes of Google Street View by Canadian artist Jon Rafman also... View full entry
Calling all the bombers... Calling all the bombers. The @Demilit crew launches a challenge: bomb the drone. For example... View full entry
New novel by James Scudamore sounds like it could be both an interesting read and a contemporary commentary on wealth and the slums. New novel by James Scudamore sounds like it could be both an interesting read and a contemporary commentary on wealth and the slums. Reviewed at: Seattle's The... View full entry
Here is somewhat representational current homepage picture of gender statistics of the architecture offices in Turkey. I thought it is very different than the picture we have here in the US. Here is somewhat representational current homepage picture of gender statistics of the architecture offices... View full entry
An air-powered cannon soon will blast blood-red gobs of wax into the corner of a Bollywood landmark... An air-powered cannon soon will blast blood-red gobs of wax into the corner of a Bollywood landmark... ...Fear of failure is always present. “That’s the whole definition of a creative... View full entry
Finland has a tradition of building snow and ice sculptures during its long winter. It was these that inspired the device, says Antti Virolainen, a member of the Nokia team. "We decided to see if we could make an ice sculpture that was interactive."Finland has a tradition of building snow and ice... View full entry
Do you want to be one? Do you have what it takes? If you have a personality that pops and passion for design, apply and dazzle the judges with your creativity. If you don't, f..k it... Instructions View full entry
...as networks of people grow larger, they’ll usually tend to converge on an accurate understanding of information distributed among them, even if individual members of the network can observe only their nearby neighbors. A few opinionated people with large audiences can slow that... View full entry
Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands. Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group... View full entry
Thanks to garden artists, architects and upcyclers, insect hotels now come in myriad styles. They all have one thing in common: They provide beneficial bugs with shelter for the winter and a place to propagate. Come spring, guests take their leave and resume the job of pollinating plants and... View full entry
In his latest exhibition for Prada Foundation in Milan, artist John Baldessari dresses up the architecture and the art with the puns of fashion. "The empty space is just as important as the Giacomettis.. Absolutely," he says in the video interview.In his latest exhibition for Prada Foundation in... View full entry
There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. RadioLab | There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's... View full entry
the nytimes profiles an underground art project that is literally underground and doesn't want any visitors... the nytimes profiles an underground art project that is literally underground and doesn't want any visitors... View full entry