Category: ideas
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The Futurist Manifesto by F. T. Marinetti
Marinetti was an Italian poet and the founder of Futurism, who later became involved with the Fascist Party and fought for the Axis powers in WWII. Although I do not agree with the Futurist Party, I thought the manifesto was very interesting, especially the below excerpt. The manifesto was originally published in 1909 on the cover of the […]
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Put Parking Spaces to Better Use
What a great way to bring awareness to our use of space in urban centers. If I created a collapsable version, could it be put in any parking space?What if I transformed a flatbed trailer into a mobile park or common area? If the meters were paid and rules followed, I don’t foresee any problems besides taking […]
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Airy Thai Library
Fifteen Norwegian Architecture students went to Thailand to build Safe Haven Orphanage’s first library on a budget of $4,650 in January of 2009. It is amazing the climate demands only one wall and an overhang. Removing the midsection to play with light was a great idea and it throws in the use for a gangplank! If only […]
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An Exercise in Gender Awareness
I read a few articles in the New York Times using a Chrome extension called Jailbreak the Patriarchy and found it empowering and revealing. It functions to swaps gender-specific words on any webpage to it’s opposite. For example, “he used his sister’s computer” is switched to “she used her brother’s computer”. From a gender-swapped perspective, never have so […]
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The Best Chefs in the Triangle are…Women!
The poll results from the Independent Weekly’s Best of the Triangle were released this week and I immediately noticed that all the Best Chef awards went to women! (Coincidently, all their names start with A.) The rest of the finalists were men save for the husband and wife team at Magnolia Grill in Durham (now closed). […]
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Thoughts on Digital Photography
A photographer once told me, “not everyone who owns a piano is a pianist”. With the rise of digital photography the number of horrendous pictures of pets and food on social networking sites has increased exponentially. The excitement and anxiety of opening the 24 pack of developed pictures from the Kodak store has been replaced by instantaneously accepting […]
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NC Amendment One negatively affects ALL Relationships
The proposed amendment to the NC Constitution in its entirety: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.” Facts about this amendment you should know: 1. This amendment is not needed to prevent gay marriage: there is already an NC law forbidding gay marriage. 2. This […]
Catherine R. Hofmann 