Author: Marcus Trimble
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An amusing round-up of the Venice Biennale
An amusing round-up of the Venice Biennale the author of which appears not to be at all impressed with Patrick Schumacher. “When I see Patrik Schumacher (business partner and factotum of Zaha Hadid) speak about architecture, I get very sad for him. He looks like a member of Kraftwerk trapped in one of those kidnap…
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Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Brad Rhoads, a computer programmer and missionary in Princeton, Ill., faces a computer monitor on a file cabinet and gets in about five miles a day on a treadmill while working in his home office. “After a while, your legs do get kind of tired,” said Mr. Rhoads, 40, who started exercising in March, when…
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Synecdoche, New York
The trailer for Charlie Kauffman’s new film Synecdoche, New York is up online. The film concerns the staging of a play set within a life-size simulacrum of New York City inside a warehouse (shades of The Remainder?). Jimmy Stamp has pics and some thoughts on the film.
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Build me an Art Crusher
Build me an Art Crusher. Edward Lifson proposes ratcheting down the roof of Mies’ New National Gallery; crushing the works of Jeff Koons within. This is a very good idea.
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Ready to Wear Pac-Man
Is Pac-Man to fashion what Star Wars is to architecture?
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A print-on-demand ‘ATM’ has been installed in a Melbourne bookstore
A print-on-demand ‘ATM’ has been installed in a Melbourne bookstore giving access to books long out of print. A book takes mintutes to be printed and bound and they anticipate having 10,000 titles available in 18 months.