From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #28: Trash, democracy and meaningness
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** The Curious Corner #28
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Here’s this months list: * Tinier than tiny houses (http://www.byrosa.nl/work/micro-matter/10511) … * How to feel like a castaway (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/t-magazine/travel/castaway-desert-island-alvaro-cerezo.html) . * Mining the trash of San Francisco for art (http://fusion.net/story/240395/jenny-odell-bureau-of-suspended-objects) . * Did you know 97% of all people live on 1 hemisphere (http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?human-hemisphere) ? * A lump of Cherokee clay (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/edmund-de-waal-and-the-strange-alchemy-of-porcelain.html) : a clod of petrified dirt, a meatball from outer space. * Woah! Not only forecasting rain, but sunsets (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/11/23/sunset_quality_forecasts_are_here_for_new_york_city.html) ! * Art, on toy piano’s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=6lTMcwP3b7A) . * My brother collects fascinating visuals on a space (http://solutionism.space/) . * Creativity is often found in strange places… Like a prison (http://temporaryservices.org/served/projects-by-name/prisoners-inventions) . * Communism still exists in this little town (http://www.wired.com/2016/01/tim-fenby-china) called Nanjie.
http://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/expose/expose_6/grandmaster.php * Could you run a democracy with an operating system (http://democracyos.org) ? * Fruit walls (http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html) are the history of green houses. * I’m sorry for your loss: here’s footage of all the metro-lines (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLfEttw-T2suQygO_yGJ1hvACvTS6X1F7) in New York. Pure bliss! * Yoko Ono’s instructions (http://www.amazon.com/Acorn-Yoko-Ono/dp/1616203773) for life. * An eighteenth-century mixologist (http://recipes.hypotheses.org/7280) . * There’s a name for what we all experience over time, we make plans, and don’t execute.. It’s called akrasia (http://jamesclear.com/akrasia) . * What is meaningness (http://meaningness.com/what-is-meaningness) ? * Typographic forestry (http://www.bldgblog.com/2015/08/typographic-forestry-and-other-landscapes-of-translation) and other landscapes of translation. * Who knew? Building with Lego has some rules (http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp) about what is legal, and what isn’t. * This is sand (http://thisissand.com/gallery) . * The microbiome (http://we-make-money-not-art.com/msa-the-microbiome-security-agency) security agency.
That’s it, thanks for reading! Let me know by email (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=A%20suggestion%20for%20the%20Curious%20Corner!&body=Hi%20Joost!) if you have any suggestions for the Curious Corner!
Joost
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