Daniel Buren’s Excentrique(s) in Paris’s Grand Palais, originally built for the 1900 World Fair, for Monumenta 2012.
“If the scale doesn’t get to you, the architecture will.”
Car battery swapping in Israel
Better Place is set to launch an audacious electric car option: buy the vehicle but lease the battery, and pay for ‘electric miles’ like you would a cellphone contract. Today Israel and Denmark; tomorrow the world.
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Victory in Europe Complete;
Allies Now Turn Efforts Toward Smashing Jap War Machine
A peace that passeth all understanding came to the world this week. It was anticlimactic, it was premature, it was confusing, it was the greatest snafu of all time-but it was wonderful. On the 2,075th day of the biggest, costliest war in history, some 25,000,000 ceased fighting. Ahead lay the difficult problems of the peace and the hard struggle to bring to an end the other half of the global war, the war against Japan. But for a few days at least a great burden was lifted for muvh of mankind.
Newsweek May 14, 1945
Two British men who have been totally blind for many years have had part of their vision restored after surgery to fit pioneering eye implants.
via BBC News Health
When light falls on the retina of the human eye, it hits 126 million sensory cells which transform it into electrical signals. Even the smallest unit of light, a photon, can stimulate one of these sensory cells.
Electronic graphics by Herbert W. Franke
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zedlove260z: I’ve always wanted to visit the Great Road Of China.
British team make first ascent of Amazon peak | Guardian
Cerro Autana in western Venezuela is one of the most remote mountains in the Amazon, revered by local Indians as sacred. On a truly epic expedition, British adventurer Leo Houlding and his team of climbers spent eight days of boat rides and hacking through virgin jungle to get to its base, and a further six scaling the east face of the 1,400m peak.
Chris Fraser creates dazzling light installations by turning a dark enclosed room into variation on a camera obscura. A precursor to the camera, the camera obscura is “a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved.”
Fraser on his project:
My light installations use the ‘camera obscura’ as a point of departure. They are immersive optical environments, idealized spaces with discreet openings. In translating the outside world into moving fields of light and color, the projections make an argument for unfixed notion of sight.
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