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Linkor Tower Moscow, photo by Frank Herfort via betaknowledge.
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Dispatchwork, an international movement to fix holes with Lego, initiated in 2007 by Jan Vormann. Browse the map on their website.
100 years ago today, the first crossword puzzle was published, according to Smithsonian (1). In Ukraine Serhiy Petyuk decorated a house with a crossword puzzle, where you can see the letters only at the night (2). Ken Knowlton and Frank Longo made the portrait crossword (3). Christian Svanes Kolding made the QR-crossword (4).
thx 2 nerdcore for the head’s up
The ultimate text-mode church!
Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen by Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1921-1940)
The Future Starts Now – a 20×30 meter ASCII by Rikki Kasso, 2010. Placed on the Mejiro Kindergarten in Tokyo. The ASCII art was based on a photograph, infused with numbers and phrases about learning in English and Japanese. Rikki:
As I thought more into it, it became clear that this text in digital form also known as a “font” was also a brand new language that children will grow up with as an automatic second written language. A “Neo-Neanderthal” age where symbols and icons are used to reform communication.
