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buried mirror: latest reflections » Photo Wednesday: Water delivery

buried mirror: latest reflections » Photo Wednesday: Water delivery.

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Tropicália artists go to war with builders over name

Originally posted on Brazil Portal:
Tom Phillips – Guardian, 03/02/2012 Tropicália veterans Caetano Veloso, left, Rita Lee and Gilberto Gil perform during a samba school parade in São Paulo last month. Photograph: Andre Penner/AP The creators have christened it Tropicália…

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Originally posted on Designalog:
Design: Happy Pills Vases for Venini by Fabio Novembre: “..italian designer fabio novembre has created stacked vases for renowned italian glass manufacturer venini. made of world-famous murano glass, the containers are in the form of pharmaceutical drugs, with faint chemical compositions written on each. each color…

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Originally posted on Getting It Right~ Living Life:
[Black Orpheus (Orfeu Négre) (1958) Directed by Marcel Camus. Bruno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lea Garcia] It seems as though all of my favorite films especially favorite foreign films come from Brazil. If you…

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* Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building

Originally posted on Designalog:
Architecture: Cornell Reveals the Architects Competing to Design the First NYC Tech Campus Building: “..Selected from over more than 40 firms from the U.S. and abroad, the finalists include Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the Office…

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Originally posted on Sao Paulo Project:
MASP is one of the most famous landmarks of Sao Paulo. Its design is unique, being recognized no matter what angle one sees it from. The museum was a creation of the minds of…

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Desmond Tutu, South African Activist

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town,…

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Originally posted on Oblique Exposure:
While we’re trawling through the deluge (!) of New York shots, here are a few taken after our return to Manchester. The day we arrived, my priority was not to fall asleep. I don’t sleep…

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Originally posted on La même lune.:
I was so excited last time I wrote about Brazil, I only wrote the good things about it. I mean, I love it here, I really do. But maybe it is important to…

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