I’m launching a satellite to make music from the ionosphere. But what would that look like, in a dramatic sense? In an evocative sense? In a perfect world, I could just ask a couple of children to draw me their impression of what ‘a …

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Calliope Art Attack

All this background drives us to think again on Hans Hollein’s idea that ALLES IST ARCHITEKTUR, where he wrote “Many fields beyond traditional building are taking over ‘architecture,’ just as architecture and ‘architects’ are moving …

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Craters as other form of architecture [Alles Ist Architektur …

However, one local woman has spent 17 years collecting newspaper clippings, photographs, books & plays about the famous trial. Recently, a museum & cultural center opened in Scottsboro to commemorate the event. Here’s some photos & some …

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An Inside Look In the Scottsboro Boys Museum

A plan to replace Seattle Center’s Fun Forest with a private museum was unveiled yesterday at the Space Needle. The Fun Forest would be turned into a glass–art museum designed by Northwest artist Dale Chihuly. …

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Chihuly Museum At Seattle Center

The thread running through the show, according to curator Kirsten Anderson, is “an opulence or richness, either in subject matter or technique.” Lush Life 2 runs until May 7 and all of the art is also viewable online. …

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Lush Life 2 art show at Seattle's Roq La Rue – Boing Boing

I do play D&D, if not that particular version (usually known as OD&D or 0E) and the crappy amateurish art is part of the charm. It frees the imagination to allow (require) you to invent for youself how the monsters look. …

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Original D&D art from 1974: our craptastic nerd origins – Boing Boing

The museum has acquired a collection of 19 early firefighting items from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reflecting the history of firefighting from the 1800s to 1920s. Lewis and his staff are preparing a temporary …

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Aurora Fire Museum gets to display 'cool toys' from Smithsonian «

Rodrigo Villas Makes Found Space Into ‘Spring’ Art in Barcelona (GALLERY): Barcelona-based street and graffiti artist Rodrigo Villas was painting in an abandone.

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Spacial Graffiti Art – Rodrigo Villas Makes Found Space Into …

Architects take a stab at earthquake-proof architecture, by Kevin Hall, for DVICE.

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Architects take a stab at earthquake-proof architecture | DVICE

Decoration is a major unifying factor in Islamic architecture and design. For 13 centuries, writes Dalu Jones in a very interesting and informative essay entitled “Surface, Pattern and Light” (in Architecture of the Islamic World, …

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The Concept of Decoration in Islamic Architecture by tessmuxlim …