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Fascinated by the idea of "light as material," Azambourg began developing a lampless lampshade in 2002. Created with the textile company Dubar-Warneton, the shade is wired throughout with fiber-optic thread typically used in the aviation and space industries. "My lamp glows by itself--it's magical!" he says...
...crisis is compounded by the suspicion local tribes have traditionally shown outsiders. Scores of villagers were killed and injured by the quake. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people lay dying, and for many residents, the closest medical attention meant carrying the injured for nine hours along trails that thread down a rocky cliff face to the Indus, where they might hail a passing boat. The tribes also needed blankets and tents. With their plight desperate, tribal elders sent word that they badly needed help...
Cute is fine, but the saving grace of the video is its thread of gleeful sadism. The adorable critters shove, punch, shoot, and even guillotine each other. One pulls its own head off, spraying cute little animated blood droplets. The video skims past each one without comment, moving through scenes without pausing...
...they could show that they were actually soldiers.” The proof was in the pictures. Soldiers began submitting photographic evidence ranging from shots of Middle Eastern road signs to mundane pictures of soldiers on duty to gruesome images of war casualties. Already, more than 8,000 threads have been created within the soldier-submitted-content pages, but a single thread can contain multiple pictures and inspire hundreds of posts by members of the website. Contributors classify their content as “general” or “gory” and then rate themselves: some...
...main thread running through “Forging the New” is conflict: between East and West, between old and new, between representation and abstraction; and the styles represented are largely depictions of individual artists’ reactions to these tensions. Utsumi Nobuhiko’s “Innerscape: Manifestation,” for example, propels traditional Japanese ink across a water-covered sheet of paper using a powerful dryer—combining an old medium with a new technique. Meanwhile, “Early Spring” by He Huaishuo features a classical Chinese subject matter...