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...each way, each time you solve a problem, you’re gonna solve it with who you are,” he says. “The problems you have to solve when you do movies are so vast and diverse, I think you have to build your sort of own philosophy.” Gondry’s method is based in the do-it-yourself ethic of Sweding. “I have this old philosophy about bringing people to their own film and watch[ing] it together,” he says. If Sweding a film...
...studied to learn how it works,” says Heynen. In opposition to the Bauhaus program of scientific construction and planning, initiated by Gropius and perpetuated by architects like Mies van der Rohe, “She was convinced that science and technology alone couldn’t build a city.”Heynen says that she’s currently working on how “to find an eloquent position of how to describe her.” “I have a lot of sympathy for her ideas on architecture. However, for example...
...library that manages to be a fitting re-imagination instead of a hideous attempt at revision. In July 2006, Kellner spent two weeks at the Boston Athenaeum on the eve of its 200th anniversary, serving as bicentennial artist-in-residence. The commissioned pictures of the Boston Athenaeum lend the building a “kinetic energy that metaphorically invokes the intellectual and cultural vitality of the institution,” according to Richard Wendorf, the director of the Athenaeum. In Kellner’s photographic reconstructions of famous landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, the structure disassembles and seems...
...measure, then, of just how eager the Turkish military is to confront the PKK that it got a jump on the spring thaw by sending a reported 10,000 Turkish troops into northern Iraq Thursday, despite the weather. Turkey's goal appears to be to pre-empt the spring build-up of PKK fighters moving from Iraq into Turkey. The Turks have advanced some six miles into Iraq and blown up a few bridges, and say they will return home to their warm bases as soon as possible...
...honored. Iran, a long-time supporter of the Northern Alliance, was instrumental in bringing about the fall of the Taliban. Iran has also helped more than any other neighbor with the reconstruction of the country. Since 2002, Tehran has pumped millions of dollars into Afghanistan's western provinces to build roads, electrical grids, schools and health clinics. On top of this, Iranian agents are dumping bags of cash in the laps of tribal leaders in Afghanistan's west, a State Department official tells TIME, "clearly intended to purchase influence and remind them: The Americans may be here...