Slavenka & Obi: February 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

When Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon a dilapidated cement factory in 1973, he immediately saw a world of possibilities. La fábrica was born, and almost 45 years later, the structure has been completely transformed into a spectacular and unique home.

Magic

Kanghee Kim

Near Misses

Miguel Marquez Outside

Bhutan’s dark sense of humour

Winding Road

Rosen Velinov

Leaves of light

Sidhartha Bardoloye

Monday, February 27, 2017

Out of nothing

Anatol Knotek

The Good News

Toothpaste For Dinner

Do you look like your name?

New research published by the American Psychological Association has found that people appear to be better than chance at correctly matching people's names to their faces, and it may have something to do with cultural stereotypes we attach to names.

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Telmo & Miel. In collaboration with The Haus. Berlin.

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Dave The Chimp

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Have a bit of history with that Happy Meal

When ancient archaeological remnants are uncovered at a building site, it usually means a big red light for the construction project.
But why not incorporate newly uncovered cultural treasures into the building, instead?
That’s what McDonalds did when it found an ancient Roman road beneath an Italian construction project.
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When Freud Met Jung

On this day, 110 years ago, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, two giants in the field of psychoanalysis, met for the first time in Vienna, Austria. The meeting of the minds reportedly lasted for more than 13 hours. The Vienna rendezvous cemented a brief, intense friendship between the two men that began with a series of letters in the years preceding the visit. Their correspondence first began when Jung, 20 years Freud’s junior, sent his “Studies in Word Association” to Freud.
Two years after Freud and Jung finally met, the duo toured the U.S. together, which culminated in what the American Psychological Association calls “the most famous conference in the history of American psychology.” Despite the mutual affinity the men shared for each other, their friendship was short-lived.
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Oscars 2017: Best reactions on Warren Beatty’s major goof-up

Someone is getting fired tonight because there was a major disaster at Oscars 2017 that took place tonight. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway apparently got the wrong card when they opened their envelope to announce tonight’s winner of Best Picture. When Beatty opened the envelope on stage, he appeared to either be confused or that he couldn’t exactly read what was written. Dunaway ended up making the La La Land announcement. What followed was a heart-stopping moment the stars and producers of La La Land were stopped midway through their acceptance speeches, before being forced to hand their trophies to the stars of Moonlight that actually won the award.
The terrible end to the show left the audience gasping in horror, stunned by the mishap.
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