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Daily Echo - Matrix (Ping) Pong

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Pong is a video game released originally as a coin-operated arcade game by Atari Inc. on November 29, 1972. Pong made a distinctive bleeping noise through an internal loudspeaker each time the ball was hit, the player gained a point in Pong when the opposing player failed to return the ball.

Kasou Taishou (欽ちゃん&香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞; Kinchan […]

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Design Tide in Tokyo 2007

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet

With Tokyo once again in the grips of Autumn, it is time for the third Design Tide Exhibition, which this year has its main site in the auditorium next to the National Stadium. This historic complex was constructed for the 1964 Olympics and now 40 years on it will play host to a jamboree of […]

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The Symbiotic Relationships: Cannibals, Truffles and Scrambled Eggs

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Armin Meiwes, the German cannibal serving a life sentence for killing and eating a man who begged to be devoured, has described how the meat tasted of pork: “The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good”. In his first television interview, broadcast last week on the RTL channel, […]

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Club to CLub

Editor @ October 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Club To Club will return in November 2007 with its seventh and most ambitious edition so far.
In November Club To Club, curated by Associazione Xplosiva, a festival of electronic music and arts which is amongst the most important festivals in Italy, strengthens the role of Torino as national capital city of contemporary arts, while interacting […]

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Wicked Pumpkins, Witches In The Sky

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth (4.1.45-6)

People believe that if you put your clothes on inside out as well as outside walk backwards on Halloween night, at midnight you will see a witch in the sky. The word Witch comes from middle English wicche, from Old English wicca, masculine, […]

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Polvere di stelle sotto il tappeto rosso

guest @ October 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet

La II edizione della Festa Internazionale del Cinema ha avuto come protagonista il tappeto rosso dell’Auditorium di Roma. Dove Star e starlette hanno sfoggiato mise succinte e fruscianti chiffon, nonostante il tempo, per niente generoso, abbia regalato brividi imprevisti e gelide atmosfere.

Sophia Loren - Acting Award 2007
Nel frattempo, sotto i portici dell’Auditorium, più che […]

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

The XO is a potent learning tool created expressly for the world’s poorest children, living in its most remote environments. The laptop was designed collaboratively by experts from both academia and industry. The result is a unique harmony of form and function; a flexible, ultra-low-cost, power-efficient, responsive, and durable machine with which nations of the […]

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Janek Simon Subversive Views 2007

Ilari Valbonesi @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet

An international jury declared Janek Simon the winner of this year’s Views, the Prize for Young Polish Art. The 10.000 € prize is a joint project between Deutsche Bank Foundation and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw.
Janek Simon combines a “charming lightness” with subversive strategies. Many of his projects are charcterized by an anarchist […]

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