ResoNet at Luminale Biennale, Frankfurt

ResoNet_Bloom_Luminale 2010

Note: The ResoNet | Bloom will be a new design different from ResoNet | FRED. For final images of installation and press release information, please contact info@reso-net.org . Meantime if you would like to join the event and get the latest update, please join our facebook on
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ResoNet | Bloom

Designed by: Mark Tynan & William Chen

ResoNet awakens from a dormant sleep to ‘Bloom’ in Frankfurt’s green-belt. Emerging from its origins in the forests of Cumbria; it morphs to reform in the urban forests of skyscrapers and buildings.

ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the surrounding environment, via the interaction of the public and adjacent stimulus detected by the LED net. By using Lo-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. Continue reading ‘ResoNet at Luminale Biennale, Frankfurt’

Davos 2010: George Soros full interview

News source from BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8485240.stm

Robert Peston interviewing George Soros

Robert Peston (RP): George Soros, you were one of those who warned that a financial crisis was looming. Now that the acute phase is past, do you think we’ve seen yet the kind of reforms we need to make the banking system safe?

George Soros (GS) Not at all. We are at the very early stage of that discussion. Now we can take time because what happened in 2008 is not going to be repeated for the next 50 years or so, so we have time to redesign the system. And actually the way we’re correcting the collapse is a two-way, two-step manoeuvre. When a car for instance is skidding, first you have to turn the wheel in the same direction and then you turn it back. So we are still … we have not yet completed the first stage. Now during that stage, you have to rebuild the capital of the banks. We are actually doing it the wrong way, we can talk about it, but that’s the phase we are in. Continue reading ‘Davos 2010: George Soros full interview’

Nanjing Foshou Lake Architect Hotel (CIPEA)

This video shows the amazing architecture of this lakeside hotel in Nanjing, China. The hotel is the legacy behind the CIPEA project ( China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture), where 24 world renowned architects from 15 countried gathered at the lush shore of Foshou Lake, each designing a fuctional building of the hotel/resort. Easily recognized amongst the designers include established names Irata Isozaki of Japan, Steven Holl of the US, and Ettore Sortsaas of Italy. Also participated are architect David Adjaye of the UK, Mathias Klotz of Chile. Odelie Decq of France, and many other most innovative and awarded architects.  The hotel has 20 individual villas, 300+ luxurious hotel rooms, a modern art museum, a conference centre and a recreational centre & spa.

佛手湖,建筑师Architects: 周恺 马清运 张雷 Mathias Klotz Hrvoje Njiric David Adjaye Sean Godsell Odilie Decq 刘珩, 姚仁喜 Gabor Bachman 汤桦 王澍 艾未未 张永和 崔恺 Alberto Kalach Matti Sanaksenaho

Marc Faber On The Economy Gold and Silver

Continue reading ‘Marc Faber On The Economy Gold and Silver’

广州创意夜之Pecha Kucha Night

广州创意夜之Pecha Kucha Night:展现自我、分享创意

创意与演讲,激情与分享,尽在广州创意夜!

2009年12月31号晚,广州扉艺廊内热闹非凡,一场由广州绿色之春文化传播有限公司、扉艺廊、《VISION青年视觉》和《城市画报》共同主办,驻英中国设计师联盟CDR协办的创意聚会——广州创意夜,在这里揭开了她的神秘面纱。

广州创意夜的核心环节是“Pecha Kucha Night”,这是在广州举办的获得了日本东京Pecha Kucha Night组委会官方认可并支持的活动。Pecha Kucha是全球性的非盈利论坛组织,自2003年创办以来,已在全世界256个城市为观众带来无数个炫彩缤纷的夜晚。主办方大力把这场活动带到广州,旨在发掘珠三角地区的年度创意新人,为他们搭建一个跨界交流的平台,推动本地区文化创意产业的发展。

广州Pecha Kucha Night自2009年11月正式启动以来,吸引了众多来自各行各业的朋友报名参加,最后入选的20位朋友,有建筑师、设计师、艺术家、媒体策划人、品牌营销人、摄影师、老师和学生等,他们不但背景“非常跨界”,题目也是个性鲜明。这次Pecha Kucha Night的主题是“PK 2012”,主办方希望籍着玛雅文明“2012年是世界末日”的预言,与公众共同分享这20位参与者的创作、灵感、态度和生活。 Continue reading ‘广州创意夜之Pecha Kucha Night’

Conversation with Ou Ning

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(Ou Ning, Venice, June 6, 2009. Photograph by Xiao Quan.)

Founder and creative director of CDR, New Architecture special correspondent, William Hailiang Chen has recently interviewed Ou Ning who is the chief curator for 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture. Full article of interview is in Chinese and will be featured in December issue of Chinese magazine – New Architecture. There will be an English version available after the translation process is finished. Curator Ou came to London for biennale’s European preview at the Architecture Foundation on 27th/28th. Due to his busy schedule in London, the final interview was realised on Skype online on 8pm London time 10th November when he was in Shenzhen. Special thanks to Gangyi Tang and Hua Li’s assistance.

(Source from: http://www.alternativearchive.com/ouning/article.asp?id=736)

城市动员- 2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展总策展人欧宁访谈
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采访人:陈海亮(William Hailiang Chen),《新建筑》杂志伦敦特约通讯员
被采访人:欧宁,2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展总策展人
采访时间:2009年11月10日晚 8 点(伦敦时间)
采访地点:Skype在线采访,伦敦-深圳

编者按:早在2009年2月,本刊通讯员刘思即对本次深圳/香港建筑城市双年展的主策展欧宁先生进行了采访,这次本刊伦敦通讯员陈海亮的访谈是对这一活动的持续追踪,刘思的访谈见欧宁的博客,其联接地址为:http://www.alternativearchive.com/ouning/article.asp?id=669 。同时感谢李华为采编提供的帮助。

陈海亮:首先,欢迎您再次来到伦敦。能否请您简要谈谈为2009年深圳香港城市\建筑双城双年展来“伦敦动员”的目的? 您已到威尼斯艺术双年展动员过了,为什么还来伦敦而不选择纽约? Continue reading ‘Conversation with Ou Ning’

Argentina’s Economic Collapse

Documentary on the events that led to the economic collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%. Central to the collapse was the implementation of neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations. Many of Argentina’s assets and resources were shamefully plundered. Its financial system was even used for money laundering by Citibank, Credit Suisse, and JP Morgan. The net result was massive wealth transfers and the impoverishment of society which culminated in many deaths due to oppression and malnutrition. Official name: Memoria del Saqueo by Fernando Solanas 2003. Continue reading ‘Argentina’s Economic Collapse’

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ResoNet at Toward the Sentient City Exhibition, NY

ResoNet at Toward Sentient City NY

ResoNet (www.reso-net.org ) recently has been voted by netizens for inclusion in the Open Archive, part of the exhibition Toward the Sentient City (www.sentientcity.net) at the Urban Center in New York City(September 17 – November 7, 2009). The exhibition is curated by Mark Shepard and organized by The Architectural League of New York (www.archleague.org )

ResoNet project video was selected and uploaded into ipod touches which allow audience to watch during the exhibition period. ResoNet video was made in collaboration with CDR‘s member Tiantian Zhu who made the sound design. For full project information and video, please see below: Continue reading ‘ResoNet at Toward the Sentient City Exhibition, NY’

Marc Faber Dollar decline and inflation

Continue reading ‘Marc Faber Dollar decline and inflation’

What’s the point of art everything and nothing

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23755257-whats-the-point-of-art-everything-and-nothing.do

Alan Greenspan

http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html

Marc Faber: The Capitalistic system will collapse

Bullish Today, Marc Faber Is “Highly Confident” the Future Will Be Very Bleak

Posted Sep 22, 2009 07:30am EDT by Aaron Task in Investing, Newsmakers

Related: ^DJI, ^GSPC, EEM, FXI, VNM, EWZ, SPY
“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,” Marc Faber writes in the September issue of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report.A statement like that pretty much speaks for itself, but it’s a bit more complicated than appears on first blush.

Faber has been bullish — especially on commodities and emerging market stocks — for some time now and believes the current global recovery trade will last another two-to-three years, as discussed in more detail in a forthcoming clip. But he has major long-term concerns about the dollar’s long-term viability given rising U.S. deficits, massive unfunded mandates and the fact “we have a money-printer at the Fed.”

This combination will eventually lead to runaway inflation, wholesale debasement of the dollar, and a major lowering of living standards for most Americans and many Europeans as well, says Faber, who is “highly confident” in this grim prediction.

We Didn’t Realize How Bad Things Would Get

SPIEGEL Interview with Goldman Sachs CEO
‘We Didn’t Realize How Bad Things Would Get’

In a SPIEGEL interview, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, 55, discusses his astronomical bonuses, the mistakes and failures of his bank prior to the start of the global financial crisis and his proposals for better regulating financial markets.

SPIEGEL: Mr. Blankfein, two years ago, your $67.9 million bonus was the largest ever paid to a Wall Street banker. You recently said that you could understand the anger that people are expressing over inflated bonuses. How are we to understand this?

Blankfein: I think people legitimately question whether compensation is tied to performance and, looking back, they see that some people were enriched but did not seem to have any alignment with their shareholders. A large part of the compensation paid to our senior people, including mine, is paid in shares, which may be worth less or more depending on our performance well after they were granted. This is what our shareholders want and we are convinced of this alignment of interests.

SPIEGEL: Still, $67.9 million is an astronomical sum. Is there any way to justify this? Continue reading ‘We Didn’t Realize How Bad Things Would Get’

Jim Rickards:Future of the Dollar

CNBC :Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for scientific consulting firm Omnis, shares his outlook for the dollar.

Marc Faber US Govt may fail in 5 to 10 years

Continue reading ‘Marc Faber US Govt may fail in 5 to 10 years’

Peter Schiff: Deflation vs. Inflation Argument on FSN

MARC FABER Now you need a machine gun

Bob Chapman: Implications of the Chinese Reneging on Derivatives Contracts on Precious Metal

http://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/bob-chapman-implications-of-the-chinese-reneging-on-derivatives-contracts-on-precious-metal/


 

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