The Bauhaus (the full name Bauhaus means “state building house”) was the most famous school of architecture and design of the 20th century. Founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar, Germany, in 1919, the Bauhaus was originally a combined school of fine art and school of arts and crafts. In his…
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The nerds are out for revenge again! Or, at least some street cred, with their latest venture – Nerdcore Hip-Hop. Nerdcore is a subgenre of hip-hop that is created by nerds and we suppose for nerds as well. Nerdcore has sometimes been called geeksta rap and its subject matter and…
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When someone mentions the Wall of Sound, what comes to mind is usually the signature sound of Phil Spector that he created by using dense layers of sound with large amounts of reverb. He used this recording technique because the sound reproduced very well on small record players, jukeboxes and…
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In 1957, the United States Housing & Home Finance Administration formed the Women’s Congress on Housing. This design group was to be a representative view of all the things wanted in a modern home design by the women who manage those homes – the nation’s homemakers. The National Retail Lumber…
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The term simultaneous contrast refers to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other. The effect is more noticeable when shared between objects of complementary color. 01:01:51 “Simultaneous contrast makes reference to the manner in which the colors of two different objects affect each other.”…
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A magic marker, or permanent marker, consists of a container tube and a core of an absorbent material. This filling serves as a carrier for the ink. Until the early 1990s, the most common solvents that were used for the ink were toluene and xylene. Miss Magic Marker 1954 These…
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A mobile office is an office built within a car, a truck, a motorhome, or a trailer. Mobile office is also used for the workspace of salespeople or similar, working out of their company office. They are usually equipped with a portable computer and connect to the company servers via…
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Are you SubGenius material? If so, there is a church for you, the Church of the SubGenius, founded in Dallas, Texas in 1981 by the Reverend Ivan Stang, a very clever satirist and promoter. The Church of the SubGenius is a group that vigorously satirizes conspiracy theories, UFOs, organized religions…
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Bottle caps are a type of closure used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal, usually steel, with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead. A bottle cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo…
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