FLUX-USA (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Potete vedere il nostro video sulla Mail art. "THE OTHERS AND I" You can see our mail art video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APMZ2zwiaWM&feature=channel_page Arrivederci!!!!
melting man (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Just finished Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the next Millennium“, newly re-released as a lovely looking Penguin Modern Classic. Calvino was due to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1985/6, but died before he finished writing them. This book is the collected draft versions of what would have been those lectures. Each lecture addressed a [...]
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The Beijing of Possibilities was published on June 30. Publishers Weekly's review called it "part W.G. Sebald and part Italo Calvino. From the publisher's copy: Blending elements of the surreal with carefully observed details of life in present-day Beijing, Jonathan Tel’s short stories offer a rich and highly entertaining guide to the city and its many and varied inhabitants–from...
Google Book Search (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Posted by Diego Puppin, Software Engineer In his 1979 novel Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore ( If on a winter's night a traveler ), Italian writer Italo Calvino imagines a character, Lotaria, who uses an "electronic brain" to read her books. Her computer can read a book "in a few minutes", and show her all the words in it, sorted by frequency. In fact, Calvino...
