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raining down on Sydney streets.

Via Abercrombie in Sydney is a tiny lane running between George and Pitt Streets just near Bond Street.

Usually you find there a good breakfast.

You can order Grinders coffee and share a fresh fruit and yoghurt (topped with fresh macadamia nuts) served in an enormous glass bowl.

But it can happen , while you are grabing a bite of your big special sandwich, that a Tetris Brick seems falling down on the walls ready to hit everyone who is walking there.

photo by Justin James

In that case you will be astonished by looking at these oversize, illuminated Tetris block sculptures floating over your head.
"Giant Tetris"(aka “One More Go One More Go”) was installed from 4Tth of October to the 31st of Jannuary 2009 and is actually part of an broader outdoor art exhibition called Live Lanes – By George!

photo by Justin James

The larger-than life installation was put together by the guys over at Gaffa Gallery , who clearly have fond memories of the classic brick-stacking puzzler.
The "Live Laneway" strategy is a project of revitalisation for the Sidney City Centre . “Live Laneways” includes a range of creative initiatives to encourage more activity, and recognise the cultural, artistic and historic significance of laneways.
Tetris is a famous video game where the player must sort a simultaneously random but predictable succession of cascading shapes in exchange for points and more time in the game.

photo by Justin James

Yet here, in Abercrombie Lane, pieces are planted without a definite order , neither there is something resembling a predictable game. The dynamics of game is lost . The street is really very tiny.
Did we really pay attention and enjoy this new City Tetris Game when we are hurriedly crossing the narrow corridors of Abercrombie Lane or when we are waiting in line for a sandwich? And if we do so how this can happen?
Could the forgotten interactive part of the game be improved in such tiny streets?
It is noteworthy that this is a significant initiative to focus the pubblic attention on the need of revitalizing the forgotten but alive laneways of our cities.
And we agree that the creative idea of developing a dynamic and interactive game is really a good starting point to do it.

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Edward Hopper in Milan.

Edward Hopper in Truro, Massachusetts, with his wife down in the background, August 14, 1960.

Photo by Arnold Newman / Getty Images

"If You Could Say it in words, There'd be no reason to paint" .

Thus begins the path to the first exhibition dedicated to Edward Hopper (1882-1967) in Italy, precisely at the Palazzo Reale di Milano no until January 31, 2010, before moving to Rome and after Lausanne .

Hopper is considered by critics and art historians as the greatest painter "American Realist" of the twentieth century, label that has always been close.

While I was in a bookstore, I was immediately attracted by the cover of the printed catalog at this event. The volume stood out majestically
"Second Story Sunlight" (1960), under which the bias is painted the facade of a house with sloping roofs and white walls, flooded with a flat light to which the two women leave sitting on the balcony. The light was the aspect that struck me most of all, to expand the moods of the characters and with them the perception of space, restoring a sense of anticipation dissatisfied and loneliness. So, curious and willing to learn more, I went to visit the exhibition.
The rooms of the Palazzo Reale , I had confirmation of the great interest that Hopper felt for the light. So much that has come to say: "What wanted to do was paint sunlight on the side of a house" . The attraction of this subject is developed after the trip to Paris during the early years of 900. In the French capital, rather than attend workshops and studios of famous artists, he wandered around the city trying to draw inspiration from the places and atmospheres. It was not influenced as much by avant-garde of the time as the paintings of the Impressionists . E 'possible to say that he stays in Paris after becoming "painter of light" .

s The results and the mood loneliness of modern man - in particular, the "middle class" American , during the depression of the thirties - are the dominant elements in the painting Hopperiana . Often in his paintings appear f solitary figure laying pervaded by light, which seem to reflect on one's Committee of dissatisfaction, distrust of waiting for an event to happen solver, as in the case of "Morning Sun" (1952) and "A Woman in the Sun" (1961). These intense paintings, which also manifest the artist's interest in the windows, the symbol of an extension introspective portrait in which the landscape outside of the interior seems a reflection of the characters. Looking beyond the windows Hopper at times I felt evocations of metaphysical atmospheres to De Chirico.

The artist also manages to convey the deep sense of not place, where the space is not lived, but it's just passing through and there hangs the perception of an event just happened, stressing that life is already elsewhere, for example in "The El Station (1908).

The exhibition as a whole is extremely careful and didactically exemplary. Each room comes with very good explanations in Italian and English, offering a comprehensive overview on the artistic life of the painter. In addition, installation was hosted Gustav Deutsch, "Friday, 29th August 1952, 6 AM, New York" , which reproduces the scene of "Morning Sun" .

only flaw, the absence of some key works, one in all "Nighthawks" (1942).

A shows that all art lovers should not miss to know or learn more about an artist through his works has returned as an image so realistic metaphysics of his time.

Andrea Bugliarello @ D + Arch

Edward Hopper
Milan, Palazzo Reale 14 October 2009 - January 31, 2010
http://www.edwardhopper.it/

Second Story Sunlight, 1960.

© Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Photo by Steven Sloman.

Morning Sun, 1952.

© Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; acquisition by the Fund Howald, 1954.

A Woman in the Sun, 1961.

© Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

La Stazione El, 1908.

© Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Nighthawks, 1942.

© Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

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L'affaire Microhoo!

Today I want to do some reflection on the case of fusion (non-) Microsoft - Yahoo! . First
delivery with the brief summary of the two famous infotech companies.

Microsoft Founded by Bill Gates in the 70's is the largest global computer giant. A market capitalization of $ 270 billion, annual sales of $ 51 billion, net income of $ 14.6 billion, 79,000 dipedenti and a business model that is (slowly) fading (computer software "local").

Yahoo!
Founded by Jerry Yang (current CEO) Flo and David in 1995, is one of the few born in the internet boom to have survived the internet bubble. Capitalization at the time, more than $ 43 billion, waiting to see how lost in session today after the official retirement of Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, out of the deal for the request too Yang. It has a turnover of about $ 7 billion, and net income of about $ 1 billion. Its business model (free service with premium options and contextual adv) work and Yahoo has a strong expertise in the area of \u200b\u200bthe web, a brand interesting and "friend" of users.

Well, what happened?

Steve Ballmer in February 2008 provided $ 44 billion for buy Yahoo, 60% more than the value of the company stock at that time (Make or Buy Decision : MS chose BUY ).
Among the various options available to MS, it was decided to proceed with the merger of the road "consensual", which would allow both companies to complete the transaction in the best way, and without losing valuable items in the street taken away by competitors.


Problem

Yang MS examination of the offer is too low for the real value of the company. The operation was then extended up to the last few days in which the agreement is blurred. According
a letter from Ballmer last match the price offered had risen to $ 47.5 billion, for a total of $ 33 a share. The party demanded instead $ 37 and the agreement fell through.


The lost opportunity

The fuzzy fusion of the two companies in my opinion, a lack of opportunity to offer the market a more competitive player in the market to counter the domination of Google's online search and Advaita .
can do strange to hear it, for "fan" of Google (of which I feel part = P), but the market dominance of the Web is not Microsoft let alone Yahoo! , but Big G.
All information is confirmed and is now a fact that Google has become "the gateway to the web" .

such a strong position and with a gap so evident from the competition is set up as a monopoly (although this is the shape of the market): Big G controls 68.6% of U.S. search, compared to 17% of the first competitor (Yahoo) and 8% in the second (MSN / Live) - Source: Compete .

From this it is clear how important the online market of Advaita, which is growing at double-digit annual percentage rates (40% in Italy since 2007 for a total of 680 million €) and is expected to reach € 1 billion by 2008 (estimates and data IAB).


Future

What one expects to happen now? MS has put into the pot $ 47 billion. If you look back on an agreement on that figure, some of the money could be invested in the internal development of new business model (remember that we started from the Make or Buy Decision ? Now we head towards the MAKE ).

Another possibility is that institutional investors and major shareholders Yahoo! put pressure on Yang to CDA and they retraced his steps down the claims to reach an agreement with MS a figure around that originally proposed by Steve. It 's a little back with his tail between his legs after he had "done the cool, pass me the term.

road may be the final agreements with Google ace or catch-interest situation, a Rupert Murdoch , an acquisition that it will host and MySpace .

What do you think?

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Segnalo after a few eons absence of an interesting video that can launch a dibatitto the Italian economy over the last 10-15 years, and I hope that Prof. Tagliavini's Blog FRIMA of Parma should turn a discussion with a way to END.

The video is this:

What do you think?