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From this week onwards, we are making one article from each of our weekly update for free. No sign-up or purchase of subscription needed at all, just click to read! We are also making the best article from each of the past few weeks available to all of you. These free articles are marked by our logo at the bottom right corner like this:
Here’s a list of the free articles that are online now. We hope you enjoy the read!
Volume 1 Issue 1- DEATH
Looking after death - We follow a funeral director through the final rites of a muslim burial
Kims pyongyang - A peek into the architecture of North Korea
Volume 0 Issue 2- EVERYONE (II)
Future asian city - We imagine what this might look like
From the ground up - We profile some grassroots initiatives that are reclaiming the city for all
Volume 0 Issue 2- EVERYONE (I)
The last lap - As its city grows on land, Brunei’s biggest water village fights to stay afloat.
A visibly invisible community - The Gurkhas are protectors of a city that they are not a part of.
This is how you get into North Korea
If you had read our piece titled Kim’s Pyongyang and feel like going to North Korea, these people might be able to help you get to the country.
Watching Movies about Architecture (and Design)
by Mark Lamster
A couple of days ago, a friend commented that watching movies about architecture is like dancing about baseball. It’s true that communicating in one artistic medium about another is inherently difficult; architecture poses special problems when it is reduced to a two-dimensional surface. I don’t think there’s any debate that too many (most) films about architecture and design are boring.
(via Observersroom)
“ We should put human beings at the head of our thought process. You want to hopefully spark their enthusiasm. Like riding in a glass elevator: everyone talks on a glass elevator. You get on a closed-in elevator, everyone looks down at their shoes. A glass elevator lets people’s spirits expand. Architecture should be a symphony.”
[American architect and the man behind some of Singapore’s most well-known hotel buildings]
Where Have All The People Gone?
In the project “Fatescapes,” the visual artist Pavel Maria Smejkal goes a step further and forces us to reconsider the veracity of historical images and the photographer’s role by digitally removing the people that made these images resonant. What is left is the scene as it might have looked just minutes before or after the photographer passed by. These images are reminiscent of a time, before Photoshop, when photographs were believed to be a reflection of reality. Mr. Smejkal’s alterations question whether photographs should be viewed as accurate representation.
Original photo: Stuart Franklin / Magnum
(via bolus)
Urban Carpets. (via Behance)
The death of a building
(via churchofcyberpunk)
We welcome new faces to the FIVEFOOTWAY contributors network
FIVEFOOTWAY is made by a core team comprising myself, Adib (chief/designer), Justin (editor) and Mark (designer) and we are supported by a network of wonderfully talented people including programmers, illustrators and writers. To keep the magazine evolving into a better form, we are always looking to improve the team and we are pleased that over the past few months, we’ve had more amazing people come forward to join us and today, we welcome a few more names into our network.
THE ADDITIONS
We begin by welcoming Rachel Koh to the team as Editor. Working closely with our other Editor, Justin Zhuang, Rachel will bring her laser-sharp editorial skills and scour the articles for grammar and punctuation crimes while looking out for ways to tell the story better. She also brings her experience in the publishing world to the team and we think the magazine will have much to benefit from having her around.
You can also expect to see a few new names in our contributors list over the coming weeks including the likes of photographer, Philip Aldrup and Writer/Researcher, Shirley Surya as we file stories from various parts of Asia.
CONTRIBUTORS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
We are very interested to know more about our immediate neighbours so if you are based in, or have an interest in the various cities of South East Asia (Malaysia, Thailand, the Phllippines, Vietnam, etc), we would like to hear from you. We know that there are a lot of stories from our Asian cities that are yet to be told and you might have a gem in your hands.
If you have browsed the magazine, you will know that we are open to various story-telling formats including prose, infographics, photo-essays and we are even looking at publishing some fiction/poetry in the near future. So if you think you have something to contribute to FIVEFOOTWAY, do write to us at hello@fivefootway.com with a short intro of yourself and writing samples if you have any.
Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the things that we will be serving up in 2012.
-Adib
