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Fascinated by the idea of "light as material," Azambourg began developing a lampless lampshade in 2002. Created with the textile company Dubar-Warneton, the shade is wired throughout with fiber-optic thread typically used in the aviation and space industries. "My lamp glows by itself--it's magical!" he says...
Cute is fine, but the saving grace of the video is its thread of gleeful sadism. The adorable critters shove, punch, shoot, and even guillotine each other. One pulls its own head off, spraying cute little animated blood droplets. The video skims past each one without comment, moving through scenes without pausing...
...they could show that they were actually soldiers.” The proof was in the pictures. Soldiers began submitting photographic evidence ranging from shots of Middle Eastern road signs to mundane pictures of soldiers on duty to gruesome images of war casualties. Already, more than 8,000 threads have been created within the soldier-submitted-content pages, but a single thread can contain multiple pictures and inspire hundreds of posts by members of the website. Contributors classify their content as “general” or “gory” and then rate themselves: some...
...main thread running through “Forging the New” is conflict: between East and West, between old and new, between representation and abstraction; and the styles represented are largely depictions of individual artists’ reactions to these tensions. Utsumi Nobuhiko’s “Innerscape: Manifestation,” for example, propels traditional Japanese ink across a water-covered sheet of paper using a powerful dryer—combining an old medium with a new technique. Meanwhile, “Early Spring” by He Huaishuo features a classical Chinese subject matter...
...database, designed by Brezine, allows the researchers to compare color, thread, and knot configurations and uncover links between different khipu. The Inca usually organized the knots into levels that constituted a decimal place system, but the researchers also found knot configurations that represented place names rather than numerical data...