Arhive zilnice: 27 noiembrie 2005


11,5% = 8,3%

Boyarul has a special approach to what the MF prime-minister proposed to teachers: he notices that the inflation rate for 2006 could be 8,3%, which reduces a lot from those hundred thousands that might add to actual salaries of teachers. Anyway, it’s not difficult to see that prices in Romanea go together to one direction: UP!


Magnet TV for intellectuals 1

Magnet TV is a video art piece by Nam June Paik. The magnet’s force of attraction hindered the cathode rays from filling the screen’s rectangular surface. This pushed the field of horizontal lines upward thus creating baffling forms within the magnet’s gravitational field. If the magnet maintained its position, the picture remained stabile—apart from minimal changes caused by fluctuations in the flow of electricity. Moving the magnet caused endless variations on the forms. (source: Medienkunstnetz) And because in this Balkanic-thinking region we can’t invent anything but the Maradona style of exchanging money in the streets, somebody called the new TV […]