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  • GreenPix: China’s Next Great Wall

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    Using thousands of solar photovoltaic capture cells to power the work of digital artists, the GreenPix Zero Energy media wall is the largest solar powered LED display in the world.

  • The Future of the Book

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    It has been 453 years since Johannes Gutenberg published the first mechanically printed book, and recent developments in electronic ink and more user-friendly mobile displays – including the introduction of Amazon.com?s Kindle reader and Apple?s iPhone – have created a market for electronic ?books? that go far beyond ink-on-pulp publications.

  • Suzan Szenasy in Conversation with Suzan Globus.

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    Suzan Szenasy, Editor in Chief of Metropolis magazine interviews Suzan Globus, Interior Designer and Past President of the American Society for Interior Designers.

  • Yves Béhar: Laptops for Kids & Safe Sex for NYC

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    Yves Behar, Founder of fuseproject, demonstrates the OX Computer designed for the One Laptop Per Child program which delivers ingeniously designed technology to schools in developing countries, and the new NYC condom wrapper and dispenser—a sexy design solution that promotes safe sex.
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  • Comic Radio, Film Distribution and the Miracle of Bumblebees

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    Video: Stephen Savage is an award winning writer-director. His film, ‘Cosmic Radio’ was named an official selection to the Palm Springs International film festival, 2008, and was an official invited feature to the Sundance Film Festival, 2008. His next feature film, “Country Club Cowboy”, is greenlit to begin filming in 2009, and his AFI/Sundance Channel Invited Submission short film, “The Hunter’s Moon”, is shooting this coming August.

  • Things Fall Apart: Fritz Haeg

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    Video: Fritz Haeg, architect, educator, and author of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, the newest title published by Metropolis Books, will talk about his current activities, and designs that transcend materiality and reconnect 21st-century humans to a primitive place of plants, animals, weather, dance, and dirt.

  • The Legacy of Isamu Noguchi: Douglas DeNicola

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    Video: Douglas DeNicola, the Design Director of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, Queens discusses the Japanese artist’s legacy, the crafting of his famous Akari Light Sculptures, as well as the licensing agreements that fund the museum’s education programs.

  • Running in Museums is Strictly Allowed: Martin Creed at Tate Britain

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    Martin Creed has a new show at Tate Britain. He has runners sprinting through the galleries every 30 seconds.

  • Carnivalesque Dreams of Os Gemeos

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    Os Gemeos — the Brazilian twins and renowned street artists — bring their fantastically surreal visions to New York’s Deitch Projects.

  • China’s Synthetic Times

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    Zhang Ga discusses “Synthetic Times,” the largest New Media exhibition ever mounted in China.