Archive for mayo, 2008
Piero Lissoni y (algo de) diseño italiano
«If inspiration is only connected with design or architecture, it’s for me like, more or less, pornography, because it’s only autoreferential. Life is the richest way […] to creativity». La cita corresponde a una entrevista a Piero Lissoni que ofrece en vÃdeo Vernisage TV. Tras enterarme de que el diseñador y arquitecto Piero Lissoni impartirá […]
Urban art
Graphic and urban artist BLU uses walls as canvas for his/her beautiful, delicate and elegant animations and paintings. I’m not surprised to see some of this work being shown in the Tate Modern in London, and, as an architect, I really enjoyed how the paintings/animations are spatially conceived and take into consideration the scale and […]
Sons de Cortegada
Hoxe pola tardiña, no camiño que vai entre o lusco e fusco, soan os versos de Cunqueiro ós que Amancio Prada puxo música: Si miña señora á i-alba de Arousa beilar, poñereille, belida, un ventiño no mar. !A dorna vai e ven, que meu amor ten! Poñereille unha frauta e máis un reiseñor e unha […]
Simple python calc addin example
The OpenOffice spreadsheet application, calc, can be extended through plugins to support new functions that can be as easily used in cell formulas as the built-in ones. Being able to do this using my favourite language, Python, is possible, but not very well documented, so I’ve experimented a bit with it and have come up […]