days without a job

The World Digital Library was launched last week in Paris. It is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and UNESCO and aims at promoting cultural content from the world over for free and in seven different languages. So far, the project has received an investment of US$ 60 million - certainly well worth every [...]

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Met with friends from Toronto. Had a leisurely lunch at Neue Galerie, chatted, reconnected. Walked to Cooper-Hewitt museum to see the Rococo exhibit - wavy and curly, ornate and feminine, old and new. Very well put together. Miss Rococo blogs, too.
The gift store at C-H is orgasmic…. Then off to the Met Museum store to [...]

Subtopia’s very excellent article on Squatter Imageries just came to my attention. Dionisio Gonzalez, a spanish photographer, imposed photographs of favelas here in my native São Paulo. The photographs have a something of Gaudí’s work. Check it out.

If you are a designer, developer or just plain lover of everything and anything to do with websites, then you will appreciate ICONS. How easily you can muck-up a layout with sucky icons. And how a simple layout is elevated to design-heaven status by great icons. These are way cool. Check ‘em out. Buy ‘em.
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Visited the Noguchi museum last week. Isamu Noguchi was an american sculptor. His main medium was stone. There are beautiful stone sculptures at the museum in Queens, NY. Noguchi was born in 1904 in Los Angeles to Leonie Gilmour, an American writer and Japanese poet Yonejiro (Yone) Noguchi, who had returned to Tokyo earlier [...]

A recently redesigned Web site for the Saatchi Gallery in London — a kind of MySpace knockoff for artists — is causing something of a sensation.
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