Ikgadējā kultūras foruma "Baltā nakts 2010" laikā kim? kopā ar vietējiem un ārzemju māksliniekiem aicina uz aizraujošu laikmetīgās mākslas programmu Spīķeros. Trīs jaunas izstādes, interaktīvas performances, pašmāju un ārzemju mākslinieku uzstāšanās notiks no plkst. 19.00 līdz pat 02.00.

Umka.lv šonedēļ piedalās starptautiskajā neatkarīgo teātru festivālā „Lain§uojattomat” , kas jau vienpadsmito reizi norisinās Pori, Somijā. Programmā iekļauts apvienības jaunākais veikums „Control / Out of Centrol jeb 12(3D)ebīls”, kas tapis „Dirty Deal Teatro” izrāžu cikla „Lobotomijas spelītes” ietvaros.

18.septembrī, sestdien, pēc uzstāšanās Kauņā, Monday Jazz organizētā pasākumā, pie mums viesosies atraktīvais 'PETER DIGITAL ORCHESTRA' no Francijas, kurš ar savu enerģisko dzīvo uzstāšanos jau pilnībā iekarojis mūsu tuvāko kaimiņu sirdis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8UVDalz_c no 2. līdz 3.septembrim 'Dirty Deal' studiju un Aristoteļa dienas iesildīšanas pasākumi. .. akustiskie koncerti, teātātra izrādes, elektronika, popiņš, galda tenis.

Richard Poplak and Nick Marinkovich's Kenk: A Graphic Portrait is a journalistic inquiry into the life of Igor Kenk, Toronto's notorious stolen bike peddler, told in comic form. I've known Igor since I was 18 years old, and truth be told, I found him confusing, likable, maddening, hilarious, charismatic, criminal, and even honourable after his own fashion. The Slovenian entrepreneur and bike-mechanic was a packrat (Kenk implies that he is a pathological hoarder, and I think this fits) and a seamy, rough-and-ready type who seemed to have stepped out of the pages of a Bruce Sterling story. He occupied a succession of shops at the western end of Queen Street in Toronto, long before the neighbourhood became fashionable, back when it was a depressed and seedy little strip in the middle of nowhere. Igor used to fix my bikes (and very well, too, at reasonable prices -- and even on credit when I was broke), and inevitably a simple repair would turn into hours of conversation out front of his shop or back in its jammed interior, sandwiched into the tiny clear spaces between the mountains of bike-junk and refuse harvested from sidewalks and garage sales and dumps. I traded ...

From the November, 1959 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, a delightful foursome of new inventions, including a wristwatch/tape measure; a vibrating car-seat; a two-seat personal gyro-glider and a revolutionary paper boiler-suit: "ROLL this strikingly unusual Swiss-made jeweled-lever wristwatch on any standard scale map and you can measure the distance in miles or kilometers. As you roll the watch along the map's highway, the mileage is recorded and seen through an aperture on the face of the dial. The watch is designed for the world traveler, sportsmen or even for the week-end driver who likes to keep track of the distance he travels. Bauble is scheduled for export to the United States sometime within the next year." NOW SEE THIS! (Nov, 1959)

La cerveza australiana Carlton Draught acaba de lanzar su último anuncio demostrandonos los buenos resultados que da la técnica de slowmotion. Australian Carlton Draught beer have launched their last commercial showing us the slowmotion good results.

One of the strongest graphic novel debuts I read in 2010 was the first collection of The Unwritten, a story that peeks into the secret life of narrative and the blood and teeth lurking beneath our fantasies and fairy tales. Now, The Unwritten Vol. 2: Inside Man, author Mike Carey and illustrator Peter Gross continue to work their magic, in a fast paced adventure story that delves more explicitly into the ways that humans manipulate story to their own ends. Tom Taylor is the namesake of Tommy Taylor, a globally beloved fantasy character in the mold of Harry Potter from a series of books written by his father, who mysteriously disappeared years before. A Z-list celebrity, Tom ekes out a meager living signing copies of his father's books at conventions until a grad student publicly challenges him with evidence that he is an impostor (news to Tom!). A pariah, Tom flees angry mobs of disillusioned fans, finally coming to the very castle where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, where a group of famous (and insufferable) writers have gathered. Then, amid revelations about an ancient conspiracy of story and storytelling (encompassing Twain and Kipling), the writers are murdered in most grisly fashion, leaving Tom to ...

Radošās mājas 'Dirty Deal' 'Baltās Nakts' programmā šogad daudz un dažādas aktivitātes - divas izstādes, kino, dzejas performances, mūzika, ielu tirdziņš. Tiks apdzīvota visas mūsu publiskās telpas - Dirty Deal Cafe, Tearo un Expo, kā arī tuvējais rajons.  + Baltas Nakts laikā DD Cafe virtuve strādās visu nakti! 

Radošās mājas 'Dirty Deal'  'Baltās Nakts' (nakts no 4.septembra uz 5. septembri) programmā šogad daudz un dažādas aktivitātes - divas izstādes, kino, dzejas performances, mūzika, ielu tirdziņš. Tiks apdzīvota visas mūsu publiskās telpas - Dirty Deal Cafe, Tearo un Expo, kā arī tuvējais rajons.

"Whatever weird instrument your great-grandson will be playing, the Sony TC-377 will capture it." From National Geographic, April 1973. (Via Vintage Ads)

Frequent traveler and photobuff Ron Brinkmann just returned from Venezuela, where local stencil graffiti caught his attention. Here's a Flickr set of some of the works he spotted. It lacks the space alien-ness of some of the stuff I've found in Los Angeles, but it's still very cool.

Ratatat - Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo. Made with stock footage from the Getty Images archives. Fun! (Via Today and Tomorrow)

"This video is from the HS.fi news website in Finland and was uploaded today on August 9, 2010. This is Hietaniemi Beach near Helsinki."

Dom Taylor es un diseñador gráfico e ilustrador británico residente del nordeste de Inglaterra, del cual hablamos en el blog el pasado año. En estos días, Dom nos escribió un email para enseñarnos sus últimas ilustraciones creadas en diferentes técnicas. Dom Taylor is a British graphic designer / illustrator, located in the North East of England, who was mentioned into the blog last year. Now, he wrote us an email to show his last illustrations artworks created in different techniques. Thanks Dom

Phillip from Mozilla sez, Mozilla, Hacks/Hackers, Medill School at Northwestern University, and The Media Consortium are collaborating to run a free online course for journalists and programmers on the Peer-to-peer University platform. This is an experimental six-week course exploring the ways that technology is changing news production and how professional journalists & programmers can work together to innovate around these changes. Here's the tentative course outline: + The fundamentals of journalism and coding + Project management + Edit it. Fork it. The art of collaboration and journalism + Big Ugly Datasets For Thumb-Fingered Journalists + Maps. Maps. Everywhere + Data journalism and government Open Journalism & the Open Web (Thanks, Phillip!)

Lots more here.

Minarc's RUBBISH sink is made out of recycled tires -- it just won an award from Architect Magazine: "The rubber from the tires is melted down and cleansed of debris, and the tiny inherent metal fibers that give a tire its road resistance are then formed into a sheet. This sheet is stretched over a base frame--made of wood, metal, or any other material out of which bathroom furniture can be fashioned--and anchored down by the drain collar. This creates a shallow-sloped surface for water to be siphoned away, but not a clunky profile; in fact, the material used is so minimal that, the manufacturer claims, the sinks use less than one pound of rubber. Two options are available, the most basic being the 1/8-inch-thick sheet of rubber adhered directly to the cabinet underneath. The other is a framed option, in which the sheet of rubber is sandwiched between two sheets of aluminum around the edges. The firm is in the process of developing two standard sizes for commercial distribution: a single sink at 36 inches wide and a double basin measuring 5 feet across." Award: RUBBiSH (Recycled Rubber Sinks) (via Core 77) NYC manhole cover doormats made from recycled tires Horse swing made ...

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