Metro Porte de Hal / Hallepoort Temporary solution to prevent further damage of splintered glass. The stickers read: Dear clients, Damage of the installations by vandalism. MIVB / STIB will do everything in its power to execute the necessary repairs as soon as possible. Our apologies for the involuntary derangements. […]
In the past, Brussels basements were used for storing coals that served as fuel to heat the house. The coals were dumped from the street through a hole into the basements. Now that houses are heated by other means, these coal chutes have become redundant. Often they are right [...] […]
“Hello! You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it [...] […]
(fwd from Theora list: http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora) ffmpeg2theora 0.26 is out – http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora Some changes that went into this release: * use a/v sync from input container this should fix many issues that came up with variable framerates * include metadata from source in –info json output * update fmpeg * update li […]
“To shoot an elephant” by Alberto Arce/ Mohammad Rujailah is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. The film is a [.. […]
The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize 2009. This exhibition in Brussels presents the bookawards and other nominations. Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma's and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm For it's second edition 2009-2010, the Prize was extended to the Walloon Region than […]
Tracks in electr(on)ic fields is a new Constant publication with texts and images documenting the 10th Verbindingen/Jonctions festival. This publication contains contributions in English, French and Dutch and was edited by Constant featuring Clementine Delahaut, Laurence Rassel and Emma Sidgwick. Its design by OSP won a 2009 Fernand Baudin prize. Printed cop […]
The collective of women & free software will meet up again for a day of code, discussion, server management, exchange of ideas & experiences and writing & translating articles. A detailed program of the day will soon be published on the website. Interested? Send your message to samedi at collectifs dot net - Samedies / Workshop, Collaborative […]
Balearic Routes + Routines proposed a group action in the center of Palma on 18 october 2008. Departing from the hectic Plaça Major, we walked with 10 people through the shopping center, scanning electro magnetic fields, sniffing video surveillance and wifi TV, amplifying distorted sounds from the souls of our feet, filming with camera [...] […]
In the framework of the Open Source Architecture module of the KHLIM Genk Media design course, students followed a workshop around the soon to be redeveloped train station of Hasselt. Loosely based on the work of the delicious Francis Alys, many elegant situationist performances, the exquisite Sophie Calle and lets not forget the delightful Christopher [...] […]
There is no category old news on this blog, but this image would definitely qualify: found stuck in between pages of a two year old agenda. Depicted is a loose protest in Mexico -city against the outcome of the elections in august 2006, supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded a re-counting of the votes. They [...] […]
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