Thursday, May 20, 2010

Cuenta De Tech Deck Li9ve

PM CT

(Paysages métaphysique)

Apparatus Thomas Struth is arranged from the perspective of someone who could be in the urban landscape at that time. The image is focused on small details of architecture and the weight distribution by means chiaroscuro while the total absence of clouds and other weather allows Struth to focus on every detail present, in a pitiless clarity. Probably photographed at dawn, these images exclude people and other living creatures, becoming metaphysical landscapes - such as still lifes - a representation of the world without rights. In reality, it is this meticulous in the rendering of every detail, the potential extension of contemplation and the absence of life that our attention to the specific context that can otherwise seem trite and familiar. Struth gives us the ability to recognize and examine not only the historical and temporal stratification of the various elements that make up the entire urban and architectural, but their ideological consistency, the incongruity of the various interests that determined the state of inevitable contingency pending. Plastically rendered clear of buildings, the potential extension of contemplation seems to contradict the two-dimensionality of the photographic medium, inviting the visitor's eyes to take a trip "ad-infinitum, virtual spaces and among the volumes that are represented, to enter in a relationship, different and more thoughtful with the urban environment.

From Struth's early work, seen in black & white traversing his native Rhine to Italy, then flying to New York to Tokyo already reflect this process of "new objectivity." The repetitiveness of anonymous German buildings of the 1950s, the urban plan and rebuilding after the tragedy of war, the rapid economic miracle and its vicissitudes which continues until today, are dense and filled with history. The gesture photo renews and restructures the newspaper, through which emerges a new light, conditioner conceptually, crossing the aesthetic of the ordinary. Urban views of Italy, as Rome or Naples avoids any aspect heliographic picturesque views of postcards through which they are usually portrayed, and focus on the working class architecture of the 1950s, and claustrophobic spaces, densely layered over the centenarians in the center of Naples. This city is represented vertically, as another element of stratification with the prospect directed towards the hills, excluding the traditional perspective that includes a view of the bay and Vesuvius. The absence of people living in these images, a visual oxymoron as cities built for and by man, paradoxically invites us to reflect and think about their lives, their activities, their relations with this environment. Architecture and urban plan are the mirror of humanity, they order and distribute the line functions and productive activities of the community, channeling and influencing our way of living, thinking and connecting us with ourselves and others. Struth's photographs represent humans, even in his absence, through architecture, constructing a form of cultural anthropology of space occupied and traversed by him. More recently, these photographs in architectural contexts are loaded with symbolic and semantic resonances, where each element, coupled with the mythology of the subject, describe and demonstrate the contemporary condition. Among other things, they focus on building a gigantic Manzhouli in Mongolia, a region inhabited desert just by nomadic tribes and now one of the great trade routes of the east, a mock village pirate in a hotel in Las Vegas, Times Square New York, with a huge electronic whiteboard, the most prominent of Nasdaq, figurative example of the electronic market in the world, symbol of the digital economy, an anonymous street in Sao Paulo, one of the largest and most polluted megacities worldwide, characterized by strong social contrasts Struth explores ... sides of the globe variety and complexity of effects on photography. Itself as one of the fundamental instruments of information exchange at all levels, reminding us that contemporary life is characterized not only by the spectacular progress of the means of transport - which allow us to travel almost everywhere more easily compared to the previous generation, giving us a new awareness of space in the world - but also by the virtual space by constantly creating images of places where we never went and where we will go perhaps never. Struth representation of the urban context with which we are familiar we can analyze the nature in the absence of Man, extending the edge of our consciousness of the world, and at the same time understanding how humans have occupied and modified all the available space around him.
Illustrations come in part from Thomas Struth catalog published for the exhibition of the photographer at MADRE in Naples in 2008,
available here.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Roms Desmume-pokemon Heart Gold



(CityTainement)

The city of Shanghai is in place since 2001 (until 2020) a city policy called "One city, nine towns" to move 500,000 people. Contrary to their usual method (see eg here and here), the Chinese authorities are opting this time for a gentle approach, initiating a marketing strategy architecture. The particularity of this plan is to give a cultural dimension to these satellites by sounding in each of international cultures. Whether the authorities or developers, each trying to replicate, for a population of 10 000 to 50 000 inhabitants of cities, very specific environments. 9 new towns have been built a few miles from the center and is surrounded by fields show delivery nine cities concentrates Swedish, Dutch, German, Italian, English, English ..

Anting, the German city, developed by Albert Speer Jr. (son of Hitler's favorite architect) who is grafted around the Volkswagen factory. In addition to a Formula 1 circuit, a museum of automobile amongpavilions similar to those one might find in Weimar, structures similar to those of the post war and some pieces of contemporary architecture.

workshop Atkins meanwhile developed an English town: White House Victorian crecent, mews, cottages, church Gothic-born, London's docks, a fake cable cars, gated communities guard in uniform, telephone booths, mailboxes, pubs .. The test developer also negotiating with some companies in England and Scotland so that it becomes established in this city for the sale of souvenirs, football shirts and rugby but also local food.

Koolhaas (Teun, Rem cousin) was responsible for designing Gaoqiao, the village "low country" of 50 000. Once again, all devices are present. Equally Dutch Qingpu plays the card of contemporary architecture, local authorities here use architectural design as a business card and a vehicle for communication. This enclave SUPERDUTCH invite foreign architects to build not only programs but also public housing, like the polders Borneo and other European laboratories in terms of individual and collective habitat. This example is much thinner, it goes beyond the creation of an exotic Dreamland, and now plays the card of many cities Europe, based on quality architecture and stars to attract audiences and the public.
Other cities also are full of significant resources to recreate the atmosphere of their native culture. The architect in charge of the Italian project, Augusto Cagnardi, from the agency's approach here Gregotti said: "I do not try to create a replica of a classical Roman city, but to transplant from Italy our style life that is comfortable and relaxing. I am an architect for 40 years, I traveled a lot, and I create an ideal city. This piece of perfection flying in my mind all the time. Shanghai now I try to capture these moments, these moods, these atmospheres and reproduce. "
Urbanism is here replaced by citytainement, create exotic atmospheres through architecture, the import of local products, lifestyles .. This is not unlike the goal of unitary urbanism, including Guy Debord presents the objectives in the manifest Towards an International situtationniste in 1957:


"Our central idea is that of construction of situations, that is to say, the concrete construction momentary ambiances of life and their transformation into a higher quality of passion. We need to develop an intervention ordered on complex areas of two major components in perpetual interaction: the decoration material of life and behavior that leads to the upsets. Our prospects for action on the set lead in their latest development, design of unitary urbanism. Unitary urbanism is defined firstly by the use of all the arts and techniques as a means incurring a full composition of the medium. Consider this set as much wider than the old empire of architecture on the traditional arts, or that the current planning application occasional anarchic specialized technical or scientific investigations, such as ecology. The Planning Unit will dominate as well, for example, the noise environment that the distribution of different varieties of food or drink. It will embrace the creation of new forms and misappropriation of poetry or film former. The integral art, which has talked so much, could not achieve that level of planning. But he can no longer correspond to any of the definitions traditional aesthetics. In each of these experimental city, urban planning unit will work through a number of force fields, we can temporarily designate by the term classic neighborhood. Each district will strive for harmony and clear out the harmonies with neighboring or may play a maximum of ruptures of internal harmony. Second, unitary urbanism is dynamic, ie closely related behavioral styles. The most reduced unitary urbanism is not home, but the architectural complex, which is the union of all factors affecting a atmosphere, or a series of atmosphere encountered at the level of the constructed situation. The spatial development must take into account the emotional realities that will determine the experimental city. One of our comrades has advanced a theory districts d'âme states, whereby each district of a city should attempt to produce a simple sentiment, which the subject would be exposed knowingly. It seems that such a project draws to timely findings of a movement impairment accidental primary feelings, and that its implementation could help to accelerate this movement. Comrades requiring a new architecture, open architecture, must understand that this will forge new architecture does not first on line and free forms, poetic - the meaning of those words which now claims to paint lyrical abstraction - but rather on the effects of atmosphere of rooms, corridors, streets, atmosphere related to the actions it contains. Architecture must move as taking on emotional situations, rather than shapes moving. "

Is it therefore unitary urbanism? After 50 years, China finally reached the leisure society; she delivers here his version of expatriation, the perpetual search for new emotions, far enough Constant models, but actually achieved.


If you want to know more about the amazing urban operations in Shanghai and China, dust can see the blog Emili Cam and Rémi Ferrand Shanghwhy, 'll see here or there , and if courage you takes you attack the subversive Debord reading this and looking it.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Stomach Sitting Fetiche

V / / I

(The city through the images)


No ambition exhaustive or historical precedent, the City through the Images is dedicated to photographers, filmmakers, painters, some of which work just do not slip on the neutral surface the studium but impress our retinas by the strength of their punctum.

Studium and Punctum are two concepts that Roland Barthes uses and redefines in his book Camera Lucida , Analysis intimate photography:
" Many photos are, unfortunately, inert under my eyes. But even among those who have any existence in my opinion, most do not cause a general interest in me, and if we can say, polite to them, no punctum and they like me or dislike me, without me dawn: they are invested solely studium. The studium is the vast field of desire nonchalant interest various inconsistent taste: I love / hate, I like / Idon 't. The studium agenda is to like, and not to love, he mobilizes a half longing, half wanting it is the same kind of interest, smooth wave, irresponsible, we have for people, entertainment, clothing, books, that You can find good.
The second element is break (or punctuate) the studium . This time it's not me who'll get it (as I put in my field of consciousness sovereign studium ) he will share the stage, like an arrow, and just drilled me. A Latin word exists to designate this wound, this prick, this mark made by a pointed instrument: the word would suit me even better that it refers also to the idea of punctuation and the pictures I'm talking about are indeed as pitted, sometimes speckled, these sensitive points; precisely, these marks, these wounds are points . The second element that disturbs the studium I will call punctum, for punctum is also: sting, small hole, a small task, and also small cut crapshoot. The punctum a chance that this picture is in it point me (but also bruises me, my fist) "

This new wording will therefore bring eclectic looks over the city, through images and writings of authors in their work.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Does Spectro Jel Work On Acne

HL

(Male Freestyle)

"Does this mean that I have, for the first time, included in this other parts of the world, as demoralizing circumstances definitely taught me ? Travel magic boxes dreamy promises, you will no longer deliver your treasures intact. A civilization proliferative disorder and horny forever silent seas. The perfumes of the tropics and the cool beings are flawed by a fermentation hints to suspect that we mortify our desires and dedicated to gather memories half corrupt. Now that the Polynesian islands are embedded in concrete transformed into an aircraft carrier anchored heavily on the seabed of south, where the whole of Asia is the face of a diseased area, where the gnaw slums in Africa, where commercial aviation and military wilts the candor of the American forest Melanesian or even before to destroy the virginity how the alleged evasion of the trip she could pass something that we confront forms the most unfortunate of our existence history? This great Western civilization, the creator of wonders we enjoy, it certainly has not managed to produce unrequited. Like his most famous work, stack where elaborated architectures unknown complexity, order and harmony the West demands the elimination of a prodigious mass byproducts evil which the land is now infected. That first you show us, travel is our junk launched the face of humanity. "

In reading this passage in Tristes Tropiques, I thought two or three things about the last free men.

These photos of Michael Hanlon of a tribe in the Amazon rainforest, which according to anthropologist José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles, is one of the few tribes who have never had any contact with the outside world.

The story First Contact (visible here ) having the first contact between a tribe of Papua New Guinea and European explorers. In the 1930s, three Australians, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy were the first whites to venture into the interior New Guinea. They are looking for gold but finally found a tribe of a million people who have never had any contact with the outside world.

Mail International (available here ) on the last free men providing further information on these tribes, located mainly in Peru and Brazil. The latter figure of examples in Latin America because there are laws for the protection of wild survivors of all attempts at colonization. But even if this fight is supported by a foundation of state protection, it is difficult to control all the evangelical missions, loggers and biofuel lobbies who try to destroy these micro companies, yielding to the need for Brazil to developed using mostly Amazonian natural resources.