Time for Climate Camp/Tempo di Climate Camp

(EN) Climate Camp 2008 started last monday and is located near Kingsnorth, a coal-fired power station that pumps 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. The organizers chose this location ‘cos while the current power station is scheduled to be knocked down, owners plan to build a brand new coal-fired plant in same place. On Saturday August 9th, the climate camp will go beyond talk and in a mass action will shut down Kingsnorth. At the beginning of July they distributed 30.000 copies of an inspiring freepress describing the politics or radical climate camp activism and the plan for the forthcoming week. There is also a nice hand-drawn map of the camp. When a climate camp in Italy that recently inaugurated a new coal power plant? (IT) Lunedì scorso è iniziato il Climate Camp 2008, posizionato proprio vicino a Kingsnorth una centrale a carbone che pompa nell’atmosfera 10 milioni di tonnellate di CO2 all’anno. Gli organizzatori

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Which candidate has raised the most money?/Quale candidato ha raccolto più soldi?

(EN) Since the beginning of this year, the candidates to the White House are well known around the world. My favourite, Obama,  is the first major party presidential nominee to refuse general election public financing in the history of the program: he chose to raise his own funds instead of accepting $84 million of taxpayer money. Obama grassroots fundraising campaign is also the first one to rely primarily on the Internet to collect small donations from numerous contributors and, doing so, relying on a new kind of politics, one that does not favor the wealthy and powerful (see infographic above). As the GOOD video of this post points out, this is the first USA presidential election that will cross the billion-dollar mark. ———– ———– (IT) Dall’inizio di quest’anno i candidati alle presidenziali americane sono ben conosciuti in tutto il mondo. Barack Obama, il mio favorito, è il primo ad aver rifiutato il finanziamento pubblico nella storia del programma: ha infatti

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Radiohead goes Data/I Radiohead scelgono solo dati

(EN) Radiohead’s new video didn’t use any camera or camcorder. Their song “House of Cards” goes visual through technologies able to capture data in real-time: In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes. To learn more about this experiment you can read director James Frost’s interview on the topic and watch the video of the making of. ——– (IT) L’ultimo video dei Radiohead non ha utilizzato alcuna macchina fotografica o telecamera per la sua realizzazione. La canzone “House of Cards” è infatti accompagnata da visuals realizzati attraverso tecnologie in grado di catturare dati in real-time: In questo video tutte le scene sono state prodotte con 64 laser che ruotando catturano dati a 360 gradi, 900 volte al minuto. Per i dettagli dell’esperimento potete leggervi l’intervista al regista James Frost e guardarvi il video del “making of“.

Design research in Italy on maps/Mappe della ricerca italiana di design

(EN) Maybe you didnt know but Torino is the World Design Capital for 2008. Some days ago, during the International Conference “Changing the Change”, the network of national agencies for design research presented a “white book” of Italian design research which contains cool maps describing the actors, themes, methodologies and the consequences that the researches have produced. You can find some of these maps on Flickr or download the Research in PDF or visit their video blog. ———— (IT) Forse non vi eravate accorti ma quest’anno Torino è la capitale mondiale del design. Qualche giorno fa, durante la conferenza internazionale “Changing the Change”, la rete di agenzie per la ricerca di design e altre sigle hanno presentato il primo libro bianco sulla ricerca di design che mostra gli attori, i temi, le metodologie e le ricadute che le ricerche hanno prodotto. Puoi trovare qualche mappa su Flickr o scaricare la ricerca completa in pdf o visitare il video blog che

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