adriana bertini makes flamboyant fashions out of condoms to remind people of aids
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rubbers clothing
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pc sex
we all know the future of tele-presence – this brilliant (i hope) spoof points out that when it comes to remote sex, a computer tower may prove more robust than your little laptop.
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resistance painting
british graffiti artist banksy created a series of stunning interventions for the wall around qalqiliya (palestine)
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constuction robots
at least 1,000 american construction workers a year die from accidents on the job. construction robots can achieve many menial exhausting and dangerous tasks better than humans without the risk of injury or death: such as the concrete floor polisher (top left), steel frame welder (top right), concrete floor layer (bottom left) and facade de-laminator (bottom right), all by the takenaka corp.
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invisible fortresses
for a country that’s always at war with an invisible enemy, what better than fortifications you don’t even notice? rogers marvel architects are proposing a series of car-bomb defenses disguised as bus stops (top) sculptural benches (bottom left) and fountains (bottom right). while the benches and fountain work just like traditional bollards and jersey barriers, the bus stop uses innovative collapsing concrete that crushes under the weight of a vehicle to prevent evildoers from approaching the building.
via the architect’s newspaper>
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modular occupation
ever since my favorite architects (lotek) i have been a fan of found architecture through re-use of industrial containers. these objects are loaded with global industrial symbolism, and as it turns out, also political: this amazing site describes battleboxes, or the use of shipping containers as troop shelters by the us armed forces. their argument is that americans are alienating iraqis by living in palaces, and that if they lived in shipping containers they would appear less like permanent invaders and more like temporary liberators. (see this video). of course that hasn’t stopped israeli settlers from using containers because of their other attributes – like their bulletproofness.
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blow-up museum
inflatable technologies usa makes self-erecting buildings for emergency shelter and military applications. they also developed this museum from inflatable modules
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