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Snapshots of Israel - FT.com

by sbrothier
Around ancient pools fed by thermal springs in Israel’s verdant Gan Hashlosha National Park, 11 of the men and women who have made some of the most compelling photographic images of the past 30 years are gathered to celebrate the final stages of a unique undertaking. Israel:Portrait of a Work in Progress is a temporary title but it reveals the ambition of the project’s instigator, 53-year-old French-Jewish photographer Frédéric Brenner.

Japan earthquake and tsunami: See how the country has rebuilt in 11 months | News | National Post

by karlcow

Japan’s Reconstruction Agency will be inaugurated Friday, almost 11 months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the country. The agency will streamline the process to help municipalities, set up special reconstruction zones and provide subsidies for disaster-hit local governments.

January 2012

365 Charming Everyday Things

by gregg
365 charming items that reflect the wisdom, skills and aesthetic sense of Japanese people,offer practical use in everyday life, and deliver comfort, fun and small happiness to us,have been selected to decorate each of the pages of this day-by-day calendar.These items are now transcending the national border to be displayed and sold in Paris.

Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies and Visual Communication

by sbrothier
The Visual Culture Blog is published by the photographer and researcher in visual culture Marco Bohr. As he reached the finishing line of a theory based PhD on Japanese photography of the 1990s, Marco began the Visual Culture Blog in October 2010 to vent some ideas that didn’t fit into the thesis. Born and raised in Germany, studying photography in Canada, living in Japan, and continuing postgraduate studies in the UK, he hopes to bring an international perspective to the study of visual culture(s). Marco recently completed a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University and is on his way to become Lecturer in Visual Communication at Loughborough University.

December 2011

Pop-Up Magazine

by gregg
Stories, documentary films, interviews, photography, facts, and radio LIVE ON STAGE Presented by contributors to The New Yorker, This American Life, the New York Times Magazine, Radiolab, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, Outside, Studio 360, The Atlantic, Wired, and National Geographic PLUS Award-winning filmmakers, photographers, and New York Times bestsellers PLUS drinks at the bar

Photography Project Seeks New Angles on Israel - NYTimes.com

by sbrothier
GAN HASHLOSHA NATIONAL PARK, Israel — The image is both idyllic and carefully staged: nearly a dozen foreign photographers, some of them celebrated on the international art scene, posing for a collective portrait on a sunny November morning against a startling green pool in this lush park in northern Israel.

Centres d'affaires en France

by jpr
Réseau national proposant des centres d'affaires équipés dans toute la France, service de qualité et équipements modernes

November 2011

Logistics and Opposition

by karlcow

'Sabotage the social machine'. 'Incinerate the documents!'. In the first contribution to a group of articles on logistics, workplace surveillance and national security, Alberto Toscano examines the anti-urbanist presuppositions of insurrectionary anarchism, speculating on how the catastrophic destiny of certain technological innovations might instead be turned to different ends

Japan's recovery: Who needs leaders? | The Economist

by karlcow

The quality and commitment of local leaders have been a revelation, so refreshing compared with the bickering politicians in the national Diet (parliament).

Portraits and Dreams: A Revisitation by Wendy Ewald and Elizabeth Barret - United States Artists - Great art forms here

by sbrothier
In partnership with the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, Wendy Ewald and Elizabeth Barret were awarded $40,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts for Portraits and Dreams: A Revisitation. We need to raise $20,000 to match the NEA award. Your generous donations will support the creation of new work as well as collaboration between two artists and community members in rural Appalachia.

October 2011

Huit Maîtres de l’ukiyo-e - Chefs-d’œuvre du Musée national d’Art Asiatique de Corfou - Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris

by karlcow

Le Musée national d’Art Asiatique de Corfou, unique en Grèce, possède une riche collection japonaise dont le noyau se compose de 1600 estampes. Ces « images du monde flottant » - ukiyo-e en japonais – ont été réunies par Gregorios Manos (1850-1928), ambassadeur de Grèce à Vienne au début du XXe siècle. Les estampes exposées à la MCJP font partie de celles qu’il a acquises à Paris, alors que le Japonisme brillait de ses derniers feux.

September 2011

Canon | Tsuzuri Project

by sbrothier
Of the many important cultural artifacts from Japanese antiquity such as folding screens and sliding door paintings, some are rarely shown to the public because they have been owned in other countries, or remain in Japan but need to be protected from deterioration, or because of national regulations.

Rac France - "Étalement urbain et changements climatiques"

by XavierMilaret (via)
Si la lutte contre l’étalement urbain constitue un objectif phare du discours politique national et local, ce phénomène reste encore mal maîtrisé. La nouvelle publication du Réseau Action Climat approfondit cette thématique sous l’angle climat-énergie et fait émerger de véritables pistes de progrès.

August 2011

Why Irene Is a Remarkable Storm - Brian Resnick - National - The Atlantic

by karlcow

The past two active cycles (1930 to 1960 and 1870 to 1900) each saw six or seven major mid-Atlantic events.

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