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timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

Stefano Mirtis

facebook wall

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Ghent, Belgium

Use-It

A very nice project, taking us all the way to

Christiania, in 1971

http://www.use-it.travel/

Is a diferent way to organize information about

cities for travelers and tourists. Very nice,

intelligent and well-done.

Thanks toSilvia Piombo for the link!
https://www.facebook.com/silvia.piombohttp://www.use-it.travel/https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ghent-Belgium/109727229167742?ref=stream

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' sukhumvit. 49 '

Two Minutes Sketches

These days are nice.

I spend most of my time reading nice books and

making two minutes sketches

#wishyouwerehere
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/wishyouwereherehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/-sukhumvit-49-/475882242494065?ref=stream

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London, United Kingdom

They are so nice.

Here a folder with some of them.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/

I think the difference between me and some of the

other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I wasambitious for the work, and not ambitious for

myself.

(Rachel Whiteread)

Rachel Whiteread's

Sketches...
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.569422403116690.1073741858.268422276550039&type=1https://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/106078429431815?ref=stream

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Lawrence, KS, United States

On the night of August 20, 1863, proslavery

guerrillas from Missouri set off to attack the

antislavery stronghold of Lawrence, Kansas,burning it to the ground and killing at least 150

people.

There's an organized reenactment happening on

Twitter tonight and tomorrow, under the hashtag#qr1863.

It features Twitter accounts for Lawrence

townspeople of the time, as well as Union soldiers,

and proslavery leader William Quantrill alltweeting their perspective of the raid using real

historical sources.

Keep reading at: http://boingboing.net/...

/tonight-and-tomorrow-twitter.html

Twitter reenacts one of the

early battles of American

Civil War.
http://boingboing.net/2013/08/20/tonight-and-tomorrow-twitter.htmlhttp://boingboing.net/2013/08/20/tonight-and-tomorrow-twitter.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/hashtag/qr1863https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lawrence-Kansas/112577745421435?ref=stream

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Rochester, NY, United States

In 1932 George Eastman, the 77 year old

entrepreneur who established the Eastman Kodak

Company, found himself in declining health.

OnMarch 14th,he committed suicide by firing a

single gunshot through his heart. An act as brief,

and to the point, as the note he left behind. It

read:

To my friends

My work is done

Why wait?

GE

http://www.openculture.com/.../the-very-concise-suicide...

To my friends. My work

is done. Why wait?
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-very-concise-suicide-note-by-kodak-founder-george-eastman-my-work-is-done-why-wait-1932.htmlhttp://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-very-concise-suicide-note-by-kodak-founder-george-eastman-my-work-is-done-why-wait-1932.htmlhttp://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-very-concise-suicide-note-by-kodak-founder-george-eastman-my-work-is-done-why-wait-1932.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Rochester-New-York/107611279261754?ref=stream

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' sukhumvit. 49 '

Dead Flowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRdxHHFKvQ

I have to say that I like to draw with mini iPad

more and more.Now, made the big leap, starting a new series.

Mean flowers.

This i like!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRdxHHFKvQhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/-sukhumvit-49-/475882242494065?ref=stream

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Dublin, Ireland

Joyce's Ulysses Map.

As Drawn by V. Nabokov

For those who teach Ulysses, Nabokov has a

suggestion: Instead of perpetuating thepretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and

visceral chapter headings, instructors should

prepare maps of Dublin with Blooms and Stephen

s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.

Keep reading at: http://www.openculture.com/...

/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a...
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.htmlhttp://www.openculture.com/2013/08/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-Ireland/110769888951990?ref=stream

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Britt, IA, United States

Hobo's Museum

Today, I've learned that there is a special museum

for hobos.

And that once a year the meet altogether, in Britt,

Iowa.

Here a very nice article from the Economist:

"Riding the Rail": http://www.economist.com/...

/21583673-report-national

Here the link where i took the image above (hobo's

code): http://www.visualnews.com/.../visual-

bits-93-hobo.../

And here the Wikipedia entri on the theme (very

fascinating and interesting):
http://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/23/visual-bits-93-hobo-symbols-an-old-code-reborn/http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21583673-report-national-hobo-convention-riding-railshttp://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/23/visual-bits-93-hobo-symbols-an-old-code-reborn/http://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/23/visual-bits-93-hobo-symbols-an-old-code-reborn/http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21583673-report-national-hobo-convention-riding-railshttp://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21583673-report-national-hobo-convention-riding-railshttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Britt-Iowa/109468619079073?ref=stream

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Zrich, Switzerland

Learning to See

The Learning to See series by Peter Jenny is a tidy

trilogy of pocket-sized books that will lead you to

your sketchbook. Each one opens with an

introductory essay designed to get you thinking.

More at: http://mocoloco.

com/art/archives/027067.php

OnAmazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Peter-

Jenny/e/B001JOJT5I

http://www.amazon.com/Artists...

/dp/1616890568/ref=sr_1_2

---

They are truly fantastic books, you should buy

them and get to work!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo
http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Eye-Learning-See/dp/1616890568/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377202273&sr=1-2http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Jenny/e/B001JOJT5Ihttp://www.amazon.com/Peter-Jenny/e/B001JOJT5Ihttp://www.amazon.com/Peter-Jenny/e/B001JOJT5Ihttp://mocoloco.com/art/archives/027067.phphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobohttp://www.amazon.com/Artists-Eye-Learning-See/dp/1616890568/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377202273&sr=1-2http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Eye-Learning-See/dp/1616890568/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377202273&sr=1-2http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Jenny/e/B001JOJT5Ihttp://www.amazon.com/Peter-Jenny/e/B001JOJT5Ihttp://mocoloco.com/art/archives/027067.phphttp://mocoloco.com/art/archives/027067.phphttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Z%C3%BCrich-Switzerland/102160693158562?ref=stream

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British Museum

A History of the World

in 100 Objects

It's one of the books I am reading now.

http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-100...

/dp/0670022705

Very cool, very interesting.

Image above: an early writing tablet from current

Iraq, apx 3000 BC.

---

The most impressive things is to see how "Britannia

spirits" never fades away. We are way far into the

Third Millennium, but is like Queen Victoria is still

ruling the world.

Upon the insight of mr MacGregor (head of British

Museum, curator of the whole thing), out of the

100 most important objects of the history of

human kind, 11 of them comes from England.

That, forgive me, from a Mediterranean point of
http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-100-Objects/dp/0670022705http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-100-Objects/dp/0670022705http://www.amazon.com/A-History-World-100-Objects/dp/0670022705https://www.facebook.com/britishmuseum?ref=stream

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view is an extremely funny concept

Only the Brits can be so provincial and so global at

the same time.

I love them very much. Next life, I hope to be born

there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzU

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow/all

Fort Leavenworth, KS, United States

I am Chelsea Manning

"I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the

way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I

want to begin hormone therapy as soon as

possible. I hope that you will support me in this

transition."

http://www.theguardian.com/.../bradley-

manning-woman

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/22/bradley-manning-woman-chelsea-gender-reassignmenthttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/22/bradley-manning-woman-chelsea-gender-reassignmenthttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-Leavenworth-Kansas/112112035474067?ref=streamhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ahow/allhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzU

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I think that Western Culture is going through a

quantum shift, but few people aknowledge this.

Everyone is busy analyzing the surface of things,

few people are digging the hidden parts.

Chelsea Manning is a fantastic cultural shift. But

no one notices it

Mmmmmhhhhh

Once again, is Duchamp who understood

everything.

100 years in advance.

Fucking cool lad, wasn't he?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rrose_S%C3%A9lavy

New York, NY, United States

Red Burns

Very sad, yesterday Red Burns died.

It's easy to fiddle with new media now. A different

story to fiddle with new media in late 1960's.

Here a slideshow of her:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-New-York/108424279189115?ref=streamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rrose_S%C3%A9lavy

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' sukhumvit. 49 '

Where isMirti?

https://www.facebook.

com/kbarokka/media_set

More about her: http://itp.nyu.edu/redburns/

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"You are not here to find a job when you finish,

you are here to create your own."

(Red Burns)
http://itp.nyu.edu/redburns/https://www.facebook.com/kbarokka/media_set?set=a.751006814205.1073741831.4401140&type=3https://www.facebook.com/kbarokka/media_set?set=a.751006814205.1073741831.4401140&type=3https://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3https://www.facebook.com/pages/-sukhumvit-49-/475882242494065?ref=stream

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Thanks a lot to Matteo Mocchi for setting up this

nice puzzle for my weekend.

600 years ago, once upon a Saturday morning

The Middle Ages were a very merry time to be

alive, especially on Saturdays

Keep reading and get the original image where you

can try to find myself (actually, there are five

myself in it...)

https://docs.google.com/...

/0B1wzuQUjtH2UNTU2N0wtMHJ.../edit

Kowloon, Hong Kong

Hak Nam

In his 1972 novel 'Invisible Cities', Italo Calvino

uses the conceit of the explorer Marco Polo

describing the imagined, yet seemingly physicallyimpossible, cities he has encountered on his

travels to, in turn, explore the workings of

imagination itself. Fantastical urban scenes are

described, such as the city that is a thin as a sheet

of paper, but which 'seems to continue, in
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perspective, multiplying its repertory of images',

or the city that consists merely of the props of its

construction (cranes, scaffolding, 'beams that prop

up other beams') and nothing else.

'Harmonious Anarchy': revisiting Hak Nam, Hong

Kong's slum city

Hak Nam, the giant slum city in Hong Kong's

Kowloon that was torn down in 1993, could almost

be one of Calvino's urban dreams. Like a depiction

from the Middle Ages of some ancient, towering

city, the structure was at once awe-inspiring and

unnerving in its scale and squalor. With 35,000

people living in a series of cheek-by-jowl buildings

up to 14 floors in height, circulation permitted by

labyrithine passageways full of rubbish, 'the

Walled City', as it was known, would have tested

even the most enthusiastic of those early-20th-

century Modernist proponents of

'Existenzminimum'.

Keep reading at: http://www.architonic.com/.../-

harmonious-anarchy.../7000463

Thanks toDaniele Bellerifor reminding us about

this incredible place...
https://www.facebook.com/daniele.bellerihttp://www.architonic.com/ntsht/-harmonious-anarchy-revisiting-hak-nam-hong-kong-s-slum-city/7000463http://www.architonic.com/ntsht/-harmonious-anarchy-revisiting-hak-nam-hong-kong-s-slum-city/7000463https://www.facebook.com/daniele.bellerihttp://www.architonic.com/ntsht/-harmonious-anarchy-revisiting-hak-nam-hong-kong-s-slum-city/7000463http://www.architonic.com/ntsht/-harmonious-anarchy-revisiting-hak-nam-hong-kong-s-slum-city/7000463

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Design 101 on iversity

The Less You Know, the Better.

A quick talk between Stefano Mirtiand Anna

Meixler: https://www.iversity.org/blog/english-

the-less-you-know-the-better-talking-moocs-with-

designer-stefano-mirti/
https://www.iversity.org/blog/english-the-less-you-know-the-better-talking-moocs-with-designer-stefano-mirti/https://www.iversity.org/blog/english-the-less-you-know-the-better-talking-moocs-with-designer-stefano-mirti/https://www.iversity.org/blog/english-the-less-you-know-the-better-talking-moocs-with-designer-stefano-mirti/https://www.facebook.com/anna.meixlerhttps://www.facebook.com/anna.meixlerhttps://www.facebook.com/stefano.mirti.3https://www.facebook.com/iversity.org

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London, United Kingdom

Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks

Today the Guardian published an on-line gallery

with lots of images of Derek Jarman's sketchbooks.

Very nice, very special

Here the link: http://www.theguardian.com/...

/derek-jarman-sketchbooks

More about mr Jarman: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Derek_Jarman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jarmanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jarmanhttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/aug/25/derek-jarman-sketchbooks-in-pictures#/?picture=415719888&index=0http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2013/aug/25/derek-jarman-sketchbooks-in-pictures#/?picture=415719888&index=0https://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/106078429431815?ref=stream

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One Thing I Love...

...is to be home, peaceful, on my own, being

naked,

all day and all night long.

This is so nice of Bangkok.

It is hot, you stay home, being comfortable and

easy.

I am very happy to see that Dilibert shares my

view on the issue

http://www.dilbert.com/
http://www.dilbert.com/http://www.dilbert.com/https://www.facebook.com/pages/-sukhumvit-49-/475882242494065?ref=stream

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Beijing, China

Mr Zhou Enlai, what

do you think of the French

Revolution?

Mr Zhou Enlai, what do you think of the French

Revolution?

- Well, it is too early to tell

(glorious old school Chinese leaders, it was 1973)

More about Zhou Enlai at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Zhou_Enlai
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