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Offline Augmented Reality

The Amsterdam public transports network offers to its passengers the possibility to play, in its trams coaches, with pedestrians. How? By two simple stickers (one on the window, the other in front of you as instructions) which allows you to

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PoWE! – Miles Davis

I don’t know what to say about Miles Davis except that he is a god (yes, my personal Pantheon is as crowded as the Greek one) and recognised as such by many artists! Enjoy!

Shapr3D

Here is an iPad application that can be a very helpful tool for architects and interior designers. Only one bad point: Shapr3D is only available for the Apple

How works a trumpet?

Did you ever wondered how works a trumpet?

Every noise at once

Every noise at onceis really impressive website: its aim is to map every single kind of music styles that exist. Wow! Impressive! Have fun while browsing!        

PoWE! – Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Astatke is “the” Ethiopian musian who mixed jazz, Latin music and Ethipian traditionals. He is known as the creator of the “Ethio-jazz”.

The Floating Piers, Christo & Jeanne-Claude

This is the new performance of Christo, “specialist” of the long veil on the public space: artificial floating piers on the Italian Iseo Lake, covered by an orange veil. Really interestingly, these floating links redesign the geographical area by ignoring

About gravity… no… Realtivity… hum no! Space time!

Well, I am not a scientist but nonetheless, I am really interested about! By navigating on futurism magazine, I ended up on this video that, if a little bit complicated to follow (man! why do you speak so quickly?!) is

PoWE! – Maria Bethânia

PoWE! plays for you this week end Maria Bethânia. This marvelous great Brazilian singer started her career in the 1960’s and mixes poetry, protestation and daily life in her songs. She is also the sister of Caetano Veloso and knows

Illustrated parenting

We can see more and more illustrated blogs and social accounts about … well, everything actually! But here I wish to share those about parenting. I’m sure you already know Liz Climo, mother of Rory the Dinosaur and his Dad.

The coffee cup chemestry

This video is just a perfect example of how to give access to scientific questions. Even the more complex can be accessible and are actually observable in our daily life. So, in short, a really good video to impress your

PoWE! – Ella Fitzgerald

New week end, new episode for this new rubric, PoWE! – Playlist of your Week End!, with the marvellous, the genius, the glamourous, the incredible, the chief goddess of my personal pantheon: Ella Fitzgerald. But don’t lose time with presentations, just

Wood but transparent, who’s interesting for?!

It seems that a University of Maryland lab (Department of Material Science and Engineering) found a new process to transform wood in a transparent material. To watch the presentation video, click here An article from the New York Magazine explains: “Using a

PoWE! – Cream

What better than lazying with good music during your week end days?! I open this new rubric “PoWE!” (standing for “Playlist of your Week End”) with “Cream”, considered as the first “super group”, founded by the bassist and singer Jack Bruce,

Reminding basics

This interview is only in French but this old lady here is quite famous in France since the November 2015 Paris attacks. Why? Only because she said what is supposed to be in the hearts and brains of everyone: solidarity,

Bruniquel: the oldest human sculpted cave ever found

A cave found in February 1990 in the South West of France seems to be the theatre of the oldest cave with a human shaped camp. Néandertal à Bruniquel by CNRS “It is from 2013 that a research team, with

Sensory bottles

Ultra classic for toddlers development, really easy and  can be very cheap to do, sensory bottles seem to be a must when you’re starting your new “job” of parenting! So, I started as my little is just fascinated by every

#ThisGeneration

Ajit Johnson, created a series of posters about society behaviour regarding of internet and mobile use. Hilarious and..awfully true! For more and other of his work, Art Feed

Nuit Debout

What is it? A movement. A citizen movement that started the 31st March (and still going on) after a suggestion made at a debate evening the 23rd February around the Merci Patron ! (Thank you boss!) film. A revolt. The

Building Hyperdensity and Civic Delight

A text by Vishaan Chakrabarti, about his great battle: new urbanism by hyper-densification. For him, this is the only solution for a better city, more sustainable, better transport and healthier place to live. This extract comes from an article from

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

“A very interesting way to hear about Frank Lloyd Wright point of view about architecture, modern cities and modern architecture practice! ““Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” – Frank Lloyd Wright

Want community? Build WALKABILITY

Internet serendipity… I must add FACEBOOK serendipity! I discovered this city planning/community life revival turned website, by this article about the necessity to re-think our western ways of transport for a better life environment and community. If the author doesn’t offer

Does art have a social role?

This can seem a silly question: Art having a social role? What’s the relevance of such a question? Is it its role to have “a role”? And social in more! We can also add “why on earth ART does need to