Bling: A Planet Rock

Tego Calderón renuncia al blin-blín para unirse a una campaña de concienciación que auspicia la entidad Article 19 en contra de la explotación minera en Costa de Marfil, África...

• Artículo del Vocero

• Güebsáit de la organización Article 19

• Sobre Bling:A Planet Rock

Japanese Candy Camera / Cámara Dulce Nipona

¡Exclusive! Japanese candid camera here. (Discretion advised.)
Errata: These hidden camera gags produced in Japan were mistakenly identified as candy camera. Candid camera is the correct name for this pranks named after the popular and long- running Candid Camera show produced and directed by Allen Funt in the 1950's. Learn everything about the original Candid Camera show here.
¡Exclusivo! Indiscreta cámara Nipona aquí. (Discreción por favor.)
Fé de Erratas: En la peor de las traducciones, estas bromas producidas en Japón se identificaron errónemente como cámara dulce. Cámara indiscreta es el término adecuado para identificar estas bromas que llevan el nombre del programa original Candid Camara producido y dirigido por Allen Funt en los años cincuenta. Todo sobre el Candid Camara originial aquí.

Japanese Candid Camera
Indiscreta Cámara Nipona

BIG: Bjarke Ingels Group

"BIG is a Copenhagen based group of 50 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development..."

Juege Arkanoid ahora mismo y navege a fondo para conocer todo sobre el Grupo Bjarke Ingels (BIG). Se invita a superar los récords establecidos por Anna, Niwe y Ales...

• Todo sobre BIG.
• Para jugar Arkanoid apriete aquí.

Katrina: Mapa Interactivo

Vía el Times Picayune - Siga paso a paso y minuto a minuto los eventos del pasado Agosto 29, el relato de una catastrofe y un embravecido Mississippi en esa ciudad que llaman Nueva Orléans...

Katrina: Mapa Interactivo

Develado nuevo plan para WTC

"Both the governor and I are very pleased with what's come out of this," Mayor Bloomberg said today, adding, "The changes are not perfect but they will make this affordable."

NY Times article

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Gen Pets

"The Genpets™ are Pre-Packaged, Bioengineered pets implemented today!
That’s right, Genpets are not toys or robots. They are living, breathing genetic animals.

We use a process called "Zygote Micro Injection" which is quickly becoming a favourable method to combine DNA, or to insert certain proteins from different species..."

aaaww, how cute!...

Genpets

Zopa

"Zopa lets people who have spare money to lend it directly to people, like them, who want to borrow it. No bank in the middle, no huge overheads, no unethical investments."

"Zopa is for creditworthy people who earn money in new ways, in ways that banks don't always recognise. People who are self employed, people who have peaks and troughs to their income, people who would be invisible to a bank's credit rating system but are seen and validated by Zopa's."

Zopa

Casas Toyota

"Concentrating the knowledge and technology of the Toyota Group to the housing business, Toyota's house making is based on the "Skeleton & Infill" approach. Based on careful consideration of customer lifestyles, three different structures have been developed for the Toyota Home line-up."

"The development of housing-related equipment that incorporates high level automobile technology..."

Avanzada tecnología automotriz??!!...

Toyota

Pastel de Coca

Última Hora
Fidel le encarga pastel de coca a Evo Morales:
"Para Morales -embarcado en una campaña de reivindicación del valor alimenticio y medicinal de la coca- es una oportunidad más para demostrar que la hoja no es droga y ni la elaboración de cocaína, su único empleo..."



Sólo me pregunto como se verá ese bizcocho de cumpleaños. Pastel de Coca aquí.

Por si alguno de ustedes quiere poner en un proyecto una fuente tipo Hotel Bellagio... y no hay presupuesto;)

Landmark Houses

"The 'Landmark Houses' programme is envisioned specifically for the site at Lower Mill Estate, in the Cotswold Water Park, where we have invited a number of architects, such as Will Alsop, Eva Jiricna, Sutherland Hussey, Richard Meier and Partners, Roger Sherman, Sarah Featherstone, Alison Brooks, Piers Gough, Greg Lynn, etc. - an older generation at the peak of their inventiveness, but still in wonder at the world out there, and a younger generation in the process of re-invention as they gather a second breath - and asked each one to speculate on the architectural poetics and ecological considerations for the design of a 'landmark house' within such a context. "

"When I saw the plans, my immediate impression was... unbelievable. I thought this can't be The Cotswolds. It must be California or Switzerland or anywhere else on the globe where good, modern architecture seems to happen naturally."

Landmark Houses Website

Un Gran Precedente...

Escuela Ecológica de Culebra:

Arquitecto: Abruña & Musgrave
Contratista: Venegas Construction
Inspector: Ing. Rafael Green
Proponente: Aut. Edificios Públicos
Usuario: Departamento de Educación

Programa de Diseño: Esucela Elemetal: K-6, (250 estudiantes) 12 salones académicos, Salones de Educación Especial, Kindergarten, Arte y Computadoras, Cafetería, Cancha techada, Biblioteca, y Administración.

Recursos ECOLóGICOS/SUSTENTABLES: Proceso de diseño con la participación de la comunidad académica. Arquitectura pueblerina con techos a una y dos aguas para integrarse al contexto urbano. Currículo ajustado a la arquitectura y tecnologías ecológicas utilizadas. Solución en pabellones para mejorar ventilación e iluminación natural (solo 25% de las instalaciones tienen acondicionamiento de aire). Geometrías rectangulares con orientación axial hacia Este/Oeste. Uso extenso de patios interiores. Bandejas de iluminación. Chimeneas de Iluminación. Ventanas de Clerestorio. Tragaluces longitudinales de vidrio doble con cámara de argón y cara exterior selectiva. Mayor área de ventanas en cara Norte que en las restantes. Iluminación artificial fluorescente. Cisterna de AAA y cisterna para cosecha de aguas de lluvia. Reuso de aguas grises en patios vegetados. Vistas al exterior en todos los espacios de trabajo y uso académico. Pinturas interiores sin compuestos orgánicos volátiles (VOC's). Colores interiores y exteriores con reflectividad mínima de 75%. Pavimentos reciclados en área de juego. Techos naturados en cuartos de controles fotovoltaicos. Emplazamiento urbano para promover el acceso peatonal a la escuela. Parada de guaguas y estacionamiento de bicicletas como parte del diseño para promover el uso de transporte público y alterno. Planta terciaria de tratamiento de aguas usadas mediante sistema de avenamiento por evapotranspiración sin el uso de químicos tóxicos. Techo de hormigón con paneles de aislación de dos pulgadas y cubierta metálica para mitigar particulado en cosecha de aguas de lluvia. Generación de 40% de electricidad mediante sistema fotovoltaico. Calentamiento de agua mediante paneles solares. Equipos de juegos y mobiliario urbano de meterial reciclado.

Casas Esteriles del 2011

" ...to bring the technology inside the home, where it could eliminate the need for hours of tedious housework every week, researchers must overcome a major limitation: The technology currently responds only to ultraviolet light from the sun. Enter materials engineer Michael Cortie and his colleagues at the Institute for Nanoscale Technology in Sydney, Australia, who are working to perfect a coating that can respond to the visible spectrum—that is, the lightbulb hanging from your bathroom ceiling. So long, toilet brush. "

Popular Science Article

DADA y MoMA

"This exhibition surveys the many forms of Dada artistic production as developed in the movement’s six primary city centers and features over four hundred works in a dynamic multimedia installation that includes collages, films, paintings, photographs, printed matter, sound recordings, and sculpture"

MoMA

NY Times

Controversial Video: Hadji Girl

"The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman and then being confronted by her brother and father, who have guns. The lyrics describe the Marine pulling the woman's little sister in front of him and watching blood spray from her head."

Noticia en CNN

El video apareció por primera vez en You Tube y ya fue removido.

Se disculpa el Marine... deja que se entere su mamá...
CAIR

Architects versus Project Managers

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced
altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me ? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering
approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude."

"You must be an Architect or Engineer," said the balloonist. "I
am," replied the woman, "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, everything you told me is technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip."

The woman below responded, "You must be a Project Manager." "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?". "Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you
expect people beneath you to solve your problems.

The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my f**king fault.