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☆ Lego to launch 'Pac-Man' arcade cabinet model
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Toy company Lego is about to release a 2,561-piece set celebrating “Pac-Man.”The set is based on a real 1980s arcade game cabinet and comes complete with a light brick to illuminate the coin slot, Lego said on its website. LEGO“Pac-Man” was launched in Tokyo in 1980 and went on to become the most successful arcade game of all time. While the Lego set does not actually function as a gaming system, it is “loaded with retro game details you’ll want to devour,” the company says. The creation of 25-year-old game designer Toru Iwatani, “Pac-Man” pioneered a number of innovations in gameplay and game design. The Pac-Man Arcade set goes on sale for $270 on June 4, as part of Lego’s Icons collection, which is “designed for a challenging yet rewarding building experience,” the company says.

☆ Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the spring of 1946 the Museum of Modern Art mounted its first solo exhibition of a female artist: a retrospective devoted to the work of the American painter Georgia O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe’s success owed much to Stieglitz’s promotion, especially his eroticized reading of her paintings of landscapes and semiabstract flowers as expressions of female sexuality. By 1929, O’Keeffe was quite well-off, thanks to Stieglitz’s efforts. Yet for nearly 80 years after O’Keeffe’s MoMA retrospective, the museum didn’t pay her much attention. Since 1946 its O’Keeffe holdings has risen lackadaisically to 13 works, including five from the artist’s foundation and bequest in the mid-90s.

☆ Opinion | The Dramatic, Comic, Tragic, True-Life Story Behind the Death of DVD.com
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Or I can allow for serendipity — movies appear in my mailbox that I barely remember adding in the first place. During the service’s glory days, you could easily sort movies by country of origin and display them in chronological order. This was well before streaming led the company to spin off DVD.com like a discarded training bra, a source of shame to what had become an entertainment behemoth. There is a cost to clinging to products and services as they shuffle off into obsolescence. It mutters out movie dialogue reluctantly, barely exceeding the swooshing sounds of the elliptical treads.

☆ The Art Behind Supply Chains Is Front and Center at a Museum Exhibit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Liz Young | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

Newsletter Sign-up The Logistics Report Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. “What we wanted to do was to make the invisible visible, to look at the supply chain as a key part of how AI works,” Dr. Crawford said. “The best artists are all geometry and symmetrical work coupled with creativity, and that’s what supply chain is. Some of the artists on display in the MoMA gallery have gone on to create more work centered on supply chains. “When you start to do this research, you see everything differently and the precarity of the supply chain was made so clear to me,” she said.

☆ Italian Movie Star Claudia Cardinale Had a Thing for Brigitte Bardot’s Ponytail
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Claudia Cardinale, 84, is an Italian actress who starred in more than 100 films, including “8½” and “The Pink Panther.” Twenty of her films will be screened by New York’s MoMA, with restorations by Italy’s Cinecittà, starting Feb. 3. She and her daughter, Claudia Squitieri, spoke with Marc Myers. I grew up in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. At the time, Tunisia was a French protectorate with a thriving economy. Sicily was only two hours away by boat, so over time a large Sicilian community had emigrated to Tunis for work.

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☆ They’re Taking Jigsaws to Infinity and Beyond
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Siobhan Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There was a fine line, however, between psychedelic finery and “letting the color stretch and warp too far,” Ms. Ghassaei said. The journal Science featured their 3D-printed organ research with Jordan Miller, a bioengineer at Rice University. The route from one project to the next is marked with mathematical concepts like Laplacian growth, Voronoi structures and the Turing pattern. These concepts, which loosely speaking govern how shapes and forms emerge and evolve in nature, “cultivate the algorithms,” Ms. Rosenkrantz has written. The same algorithms can be applied to very different media, from the twisty maze pieces to the intricate components of 3D-printed organs.

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☆ The New Cultural Landscape of Berlin
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jay Cheshes | Photography Robbie Lawrence For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When I moved here it was still completely rubble and ruins,” says Klaus Biesenbach as we enter a leafy courtyard, facing a mustard-colored apartment building in former East Berlin. It’s mid-September, at the end of Berlin Art Week, and we are touring the few square blocks where the post–Cold War art scene, and Biesenbach’s life in the city, first took root. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he moved into a former bicycle storage room here—without heat, hot water or a phone line. “I spent my first winter going to museums with my student card,” he says. “I could be there for hours, sipping tea to stay warm.”

☆ Picasso’s ‘Guitar on a Table,’ Long Held by MoMA, Sells for $37.1 Million at Sotheby’s
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The cubist ‘Guitar on a Table’ was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1919 and acquired by William Paley in 1946. A foundation for CBS founder William Paley has started selling off a trove of masterpieces long lent to New York’s Museum of Modern Art to fund an expansion of the museum’s digital footprint—including a Pablo Picasso that sold Monday for $37.1 million. The sale at Sotheby’s landed a week after Christie’s made auction history selling Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ’s $1.5 billion art estate. While Mr. Allen’s art stirred up a marketing bonanza, collectors and dealers say they will be seeking clues about the market’s broader strength during these remaining sales in New York’s fall series.

☆ PREMIERĂ: Tratament minim invaziv al stenozei carotidiene cu utilizarea celui mai sigur sistem de protecție antiembolică
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-02 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +5 min

Sursa foto: medpark.mdPREMIERĂ: Tratament minim invaziv al stenozei carotidiene cu utilizarea celui mai sigur sistem de protecție antiembolicăPentru prima dată în Moldova, la Spitalul Internațional Medpark, s-a efectuat o intervenție minim invazivă de înaltă complexitate - stentarea de arteră carotidă cu folosirea celui mai performant dispozitiv de protecție a creierului - sistemul MoMa. Tehnologiile moderne reduc la minim riscurile intraoperatoriiPacienta operată în premieră pentru Republica Moldova cu folosirea celui mai sigur sistem de protecție antiembolică suferise deja un accident vascular cerebral. Una dintre metodele moderne de tratament a stenozei carotide este stentarea arterei, care constă în implantarea unui dispozitiv din aliaj special în interiorul vasului (stent), care restabilește circulația și prevene ictusul. Acest sistem asigură o protecție maximă în timpul procedurii, deoarece acționează prin inversarea fluxului de sânge spre creier. Pe tot parcursul intervenției chirurgicale pacienta a fost conștientă, ceea ce a asigurat protecția maximă a creierului în timpul procedurii.

Persons: Pacienta, Nadejda, Eduard Bernaz Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova, Medpark, Japonia

Tehnologiile moderne reduc la minim riscurile intraoperatoriiPacienta operată în premieră pentru Republica Moldova cu folosirea celui mai sigur sistem de protecție antiembolică suferise deja un accident vascular cerebral. Tratamentul trebuia să fie prompt și cât mai sigur, mai ales că placa de aterom era moale și fragilă. Dar, în timpul intervenției placa aterosclerotică se poate fragmenta și particulele formate pot pătrunde în vasele creierului. Ruslan Cemîrtan, chirurg vascular, endovascular: “Pentru a oferi o siguranță totală pacientei, am folosit cel mai performant dispozitiv de protecție – sistemul MoMa. Pe tot parcursul intervenției chirurgicale pacienta a fost conștientă, ceea ce a asigurat protecția maximă a creierului în timpul procedurii.

Persons: Cemîrtan, Pacienta, Nadejda, Eduard Bernaz Locations: Republica Moldova, Medpark, Japonia

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