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"SAPE (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes)
A portrait story of the members of the SAPE from Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo.
by Francesco Giusti
In Congo-Brazzaville SAPE is an old passion that has never stopped, not even during war years. At the arrival of the French in Congo at the beginning of 9oo, the mith of elegance was born among young people working for the settlers. In 1922, Andrè Grenard Matsoua, well-known for his resistance to the settlers, was the first Congolese to come back from Paris, well dressed like a true French “Monsieur”, greatly admired by all his fellow citizens. Today’s members of the SAPE consider themselves as artists and are respected and admired by the whole community. ” Sape is an art that is not referred to the means people have at their disposal. It’s a matter of harmony and matching colours”. Making up his own clothes, choosing the right accessories, surely answers a clothing code as well as the pleasure of being unique and original."
COLORS
Their canon of saints reads: Pierre Cardin, Roberto Cavalli, Dior, Fendi, Ferré, Gaultier, Gucci, Jourdan, Miyake, Prada, Saint Laurent, Versace, Yamamoto. A typical ballad runs: “Listen my love. On our wedding day/The label will be Torrente/The label wil
The Donut Project
When we grew tired of sending email after email of inspirational finds back and forth, we thought there had to be an easier way to share things with our friends. The Donut Project was created as a place for us to share inspirational, cool, hilarious, unconventional and interesting links with each other. Shortly thereafter, The Donut Project was released to the masses – with the mentality that if we found these links interesting, chances are that other people would too.
Why’d we call it The Donut Project? Each one of us graduated from the Kent State University’s Visual Communication Design program, where the first project consists of inking, by hand, a precise 8 inch square with hairlines bisecting it horizontally, vertically and diagonally, with a thick donut shaped circle in the middle of the square. This iconically Swiss design was the first of many tests of precision, craft and sanity. Its reputation for weeding out students was legendary due to the high precision and harsh grading. Because of the thick circle in the middle and lack of an actual name, the project was nicknamed ‘The Donut Project.’ Mention this project to most Kent grads, and usually you’ll hear a moan, followed by “I got a C-minus on that stupid thing.” It bonds us all and we felt it was the perfect thing to name this site after.
On The Donut Project, we will post anything that inspires us, makes us laugh, makes us think or pisses us off. Design is not only about literal design, and this site won’t be either. If we like it, whatever it may be, it’ll be here. Stick around, subscribe to the RSS feed, see the current contributors and take a second to say hello or send us something worth sharing.
Erik Davis' | MetaFilter
Expanding Mind - "This week's guest is Dennis McKenna, ethnobotanist, expert in the pharmacology of ayahuasca and other visionary plants, and brother of legendary mushroom bard Terence McKenna." (via)
TOKYOMANGO: Children Full of Life, a moving documentary about kids sharing emotions in school
My friend Alyssa sent me a link to a 2003 documentary called Children Full of Life, now viewable in its entirety on YouTube (also embedded in this post). The film features a very unique 4th grade class in Kanazawa, where the teacher encourages students to keep journals, read them out loud in class, and then share deep, ordinarily inaccessible emotions with the rest of the students. For example, in the first section, they talk about death. Most teachers would shy away from talking about such subjects in class — they might deem it inappropriate, or opt to spend the time doing other stuff, or maybe it's just not customary to talk openly about such deep emotions in school. I certainly don't know that many classrooms, even in the US, where this is actively encouraged. But this teacher, one Mr. Kanamori, tells the children that their primary goal is to be happy, and that sharing feelings is part of the path to happiness.
oobject » 15 images of not so secret secret service buildings
The original British Secret Service headquarters was just that, secret. But the increase in importance of electronics meant that it was more important for a building to be invisible to electronic eavesdropping. as such the current M16 HQ in London is about as obvious a giant sign saying ’secret building here’, yet it is enclosed in a giant Faraday cage to protect its communications.
Not all Intelligence agencies have had a discrete architectural past, Franco’s House of Screams, or the Soviet Lubyanka are demonstrably terrifying. Mossad’s HQ, until the 60s or the current Australian Secret Intelligence Service look quite modest compared to the hardly known Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan, which houses its intelligence service, in a large and monolithic building of dramatic proportions.
About Clusterflock : clusterflock
clusterflock is: thoughts, questions, original art and content and links to stuff we think is of interest; a group blog dedicated to pretty much everything. by people you would like to meet at a party; proof of intelligent life on the planet; inhabited by Internet hunter gatherers in the pre-apocalyptic realm; a destination that offers constellations of stimulating links to popular (and not so popular) culture; a group blog dedicated to culture: art, design, music, food, architecture, science, travel, movies, books, typography, politics, etc.; inclusive of geezers!; a delightful mixture of orange words and pictures of well, the insides of a stuffed animal–delightful all the same; the social network I never thought I’d join.
clusterflock is about the world in which we live. Do you live there, too?
Danvers | MetaFilter
A website has been launched to preserve the history of Danvers State Insane Asylum. The Asylum, which opened in 1878 in Danvers, MA (site of the Salem Witch Trials) and closed in 1992, was featured in the horror movie Session 9, and may have been the inspiration for HP Lovecraft's Arkham Asylum. Its Kirkbride Wings, which once held the institution's living quarters, now house a 400+ unit apartment complex.
Unfortunately, Avalon Communities destroyed most of the hospital in order to build their apartments. Danvers is also not the first asylum to be turned into consumer residences.
The Danvers gallery includes excellent, evocative images from John Gray, who specializes in photographing "abandoned architectural environments."
The "Kirkbride Buildings" link was part of a former FPP. Fascinating stuff. Pennsylvania psychiatrist Thomas Kirkbride literally wrote the book (pdf link) on the construction of massive mental hospitals through the "Moral Treatment". In all, approximately 30 US hospitals were designed according to the Kirkbride Plan.
de-classified
In January 2009, I had an idea; photograph people in their homes that have placed a wide variety of personal advertisements. Although I imagined most people wouldn’t want to give up their anonymity, I rightly imagined some would be willing to. And with that “de-classified” was born.
Over the past couple of months, since I conceived “de-classified”, I’ve had the amazing experience of spending time with 50 plus people I wouldn’t have normally had the opportunity to meet. We have, for the most part, met in their homes and usually worked one-on-one creating an image of them.
The vast majority of those experiences have been both beautiful and intriguing.
When I began the project, I anticipated that by the time I got to 50, I would have captured a fairly complete representation of what was to be had. But now that I’ve hit that milestone, it is very obvious that I’ve barely touched the surface. Perhaps when I’ve completed another 200 I’ll be closer to what has become my internal true north for the project - an exhibit that represents the human condition.
Through the anonymity of personal advertisements an amazing array and spectrum of human emotions, needs and experiences shows up - love, lust, anger, fantasy, and pain are just the first few to come to mind.
The intention of combining the images with the ads hopefully will give the viewer a very intriguing view of each subject. Adding the ability for the viewer and community at large to anonymously view and comment on each pieces hopefully will ad another interesting layer.
My immense thanks to each of the individuals that agreed to allow me to work with them to create these images and expose so much of themselves.
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature | Psychology Today
Human nature is one of those things that everybody talks about but no one can define precisely. Every time we fall in love, fight with our spouse, get upset about the influx of immigrants into our country, or go to church, we are, in part, behaving as a human animal with our own unique evolved nature—human nature.
This means two things. First, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are produced not only by our individual experiences and environment in our own lifetime but also by what happened to our ancestors millions of years ago. Second, our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are shared, to a large extent, by all men or women, despite seemingly large cultural differences.
Atlas Obscura | MetaFilter
Karl Junker House is just one of the locations on Atlas Obscura from Curious Expeditions.
There aren't many pictures of any of the locations but it's only been up for a week. The pictures that are there are too small to see much detail, I'd like to see them change that. In the meantime here is the Junker House website and an interior shot.
Very Short List / Great discoveries + Short, sweet e-mails + 5 Days a Week
Very Short List is a collection of distinct, free, daily e-mails that each recommend one must–see gem a day. (All of our daily e-mails are archived HERE, by the way.)
VERY SHORT LIST
VERY SHORT LIST points to excellent new (and sometimes vintage) entertainment and media that haven’t been hyped to within an inch of their lives. Each weekday, we recommend a single gem from the vast mass of films, TV shows, books, websites, music, and more. The focus is on products that deserve attention but haven’t already been subject to giant media pile-ons.
Artificial Owl
Welcome to the Artificial Owl, a site dedicated to provide a selection of the most fascinating abandoned man-made creations. While adding new content to the site, I try to follow as much as possible these simple rules :
- Provide the exact location, today pictures, and a summarize story.
- Present places and things that still exist, are still visible.
- Focus on modern era abandoned creations.
- Link to the Authors of the published material.
Contact me @ admin@artificialowl.net for any question, request or to include an article.
I hope you'll enjoy the site as much as I enjoy creating it.
- exploration
Our Thing | MetaFilter
The Five Families were established by Charlie "Lucky" Luciano in the wake of the Castellammarese War (1929 - September 10, 1931), a gang war in New York between partisans of Joe "The Boss" Masseria and those of Salvatore Maranzano. The arrangement, under the administration of The Commission, was created to divide the city among the gangs with mutual interests, and prevent the continuous grab for more territory. Of course, the arrangement has been anything but peaceful, and the Five Families have all gone through periods of prosperity and decline. So who are they, and how are they doing now?
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