The Berlin Biennale inaugurated at the end of April in the first warm night of this spring. Auguststrasse was closed to car traffic and people strolled around relaxed going in and out from the multiple art galleries that make this street to one of the most important art poles of the city. By the way on that day started also the Gallery Weekend Berlin.
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Who could imagine that a childhood taking no medicines and eating only organic food could end up, in its way, helping the environment in the future? That happened to one very interesting Paulista fashion designer: Flavia Aranha.
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The fact that the city of London is in constant changing is not a big discovery. You can be away for a couple of months and when you come back the landscape´s shape has surprisingly changed, like in the case of the almost ready Shard London Bridge, a pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Southwark.
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Going green and Eco in Shanghai? Need to get some new inspirations and to find out what’s environmentally going on here?
Simply join one of the lead community events, the Eco Design Fair, all about sustainable innovation and design, held twice a year in town.
An underground park where people can have a walk and an ice cream and children can run among trees even when it is raining. For architects Dan Barasch and James Ramsey of Raad Studio this dream is not too far from reality and they want to realize it in the City of Dreams, of course. New York.
They want to turn an abandoned trolley terminal under Delancey Street into a large subterreanean park.
Compared to other major cities, NY has been slow to implement regulations friendly to those who get around by bicycle.
Bike lanes were established only relatively recently, and a long-awaited bike-sharing program will begin this July. Berlin, in contrast, has a strong bike culture. Bicycles have the right of way, and you step into a bike path at your peril.
As every year since 1970, last April 22nd it was celebrated the Earth Day. All day long media bombarded us with advices to improve our ecological footprint: loads of practical tips to save energy, to use water efficiently, to reduce/reuse/recycle, to move without emitting CO2. … a lot of people feel sadness, frustration and even fear when they realize that are not doing their best to save the planet.
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My son Jasper, who’s 23, and I took a road trip around Sicily the first week of March.
He and I are alike in many ways and have many tastes in common. Amongst my friends, I’m known for dressing in bright colors. Jasper wore his signature bright yellow Reeboks for most of the Sicilian trip. … But I was most struck by our differences when we set our toiletries out in the various bathrooms we shared ..
Today I have visited the Mogashan Art district again, willing to enter the photographer Michael Kenna’s mystical black and white world, which has been haunting me with its intensity since I have received the invitation from M97 Gallery.
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São Paulo. 12 million people.
Traffic, noise. Charm and chaos holding hands.
You get out of work hopefully around 6 pm. You finished all your duties… or rather .. many of them and at the rest you will think … tomorrow. … You feel fine, but you need to relax. Even better, you need a refresh from the day. What should you do?
I always thought that words like technology and sustainability are antithetical. I saw it as a contradiction. But I have to recognize that in the future only a green technology can push forward the progress when we talk of environment and sustainability.
It´s not that easy for sure, and despite claims of acting good it is not even so true.
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"Where I am, makes me what I am"
“The time is always right to do the right thing”
"Liberty is about our rights to question everything".
"To me the eyes of the people are a door for something else, and whatever is happening in their lives, I pick it up. You can’t imagine how much I cried in that piece. ... And I cry out in the saddest way, so they are free".
“When you perform, half of the brain has to be in complete control and the other half of the brain has to be at a complete loss.”
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day".
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
Yes friends, I firmly believe that one day water will be used as fuel.
Awakening, resistance, responsibility (three words to reconcile economy and ethics)
What matters is being as light as a swallow, not as a feather.
What’s needed is a new covenant between technology and humankind.
Colour is an alphabet.
The meaning of colour evolves in parallel with culture.
Colour has always been with us and has been, and will always be, one of the great unsolved mysteries.
All I do is take away colour to get to the light.
People who have ideas, continually have new ideas. You are better off letting go of your ideas as it means that you no longer have to do them anymore. You are living life in the most efficient manner.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better.
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