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a periodic turntable

one of my favourite bands from art-school days (and still) the charlatans have had their extensive discography translated into a funky ‘periodic turntable’ poster

breaking news

i spend quite a bit of time searching for vintage images online and it occurred to me this weekend just how great it would be if newspapers used images like these for the headlines… ‘greek debt crisis disaster narrowly averted’ would look a whole lot better with that image above it… whichever way you look at it

7485656 characters / 140 = 53469 tweets

…one of the longest novels ever written… consists of 7 volumes… has a total of approximately 1.5 million words… which equals with the english translation 7485656 characters / 140 = 53469 tweets. One tweet per hour = 2228 days or 6.1 years…
interesting project by jonas lund who is tweeting ‘in search of time’ by marcel proust in ‘140 character’ bite sizes…
tacky culture

…i then use some images by “worsening” the scale, the form or the context to produce an installation in the architecture by means of staples…

this project by ‘baptiste debombourg’ is something else: aggravure; the artists motives are slightly lost on me but i do admire the technique… (via this is colossal)