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Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Grace Jones' memoir, 3D meat, Memphis in London and more in our look at the web this week

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1. Lightning Strikes in the Grand Canyon The majesty of the Grand Canyon is one of the greatest natural wonders in the US—and the world. Even the most pedestrian photographers can capture beautiful images of the two-billion-year-old geological work in progress. But when professional Rolf Maeder recently went to shoot sunset photos, a lightning storm rolled in, providing him with even more spectacular scenery. Maeder …

New Alchemies

Alchimia's far-reaching influence reflected in today's neo-coherent designs and metastable objects

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by Stefano Caggiano We currently live in a world surrounded by varied design, and people commonly appreciate peculiar features that work together as opposing aesthetics. But in the past, when coherence and rationality were keys to any solid example of modern design, contradictory stimuli and experimental concepts were considered unacceptable. That is, until the ’70s when a group of visionary Italians sought to inject irrational …