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Unknown amorphous garden. From custom trained StyleGAN3 model, seed 0386

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Map of San Francisco store cats. Source

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Milan - Davide Frisoni

Italian, b. 1965 -

Oil on canvas , 55 x 79,5 cm.

It is awesome to listen to Bandcamp and Soundcloud songs directly in a social media feed again

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A fierce anti-modernist, he championed vernacular structures, becoming a counterculture hero to many, from New Urbanists to software designers to Prince Charles.

Mr. Alexander spent his lifetime cataloging and analyzing the built and the natural environment. He studied mathematics, philosophy, cognitive psychology and architecture, and he used all of these disciplines to argue in favor of the handmade and the homespun.

At the University of Cambridge, though he was a scholarship student, he hired his own aesthetics tutor because he wanted to understand, and quantify, beauty. He helped build a school in an Indian village and low-income housing in Peru. He spent a year in Mexicali, Mexico, creating housing for government workers and their families with their participation, for a cost of about $3,500 a house. He developed a building system that included concrete blocks that could be stacked together like Legos without mortar, enabling families not only to design their houses but also to build them.

“…his signature work, “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction” (1977). Devotees found it radical; critics dismissed it as nostalgic and regressive. It is still in print and, unusually for an architecture book, continues to sell extraordinarily well.”

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Blanket octopus (Joseph Elayani)

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Visualizing dipole radiation, Raimund V Girwidz 2016 Eur. J. Phys. 37 065206

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“Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes which are invisible. The groundrules, pervasive structure, and over-all patterns of environments elude easy perception. Anti-environments, or countersituations made by artists, provide means of direct attention and enable us to see and understand more clearly. The interplay between the old and the new environments creates many problems and confusions. The main obstacle to a clear understanding of the effects of the new media is our deeply embedded habit of regarding all phenomena from a fixed point of view. We speak, for instance, of “gaining perspective.” This psychological process derives unconsciously from print technology.”

— Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

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“The Retina of The Mind’s Eye” [Digital Collage; 2022]

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Inspired by, and a tribute to, David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome” and Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium Is The Massage”. “The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore television is reality, and reality is less than television.” - Prof. Brian O'Blivion, (“Videodrome”) “All media are extensions of some human faculty –psychic or physical.The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye,clothing is an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.“ - Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium Is The Massage”