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Play Pamphlet Sparks Censorship Debate in Hong Kong

Edit Voa News 01 Apr 2016
Shannon Van Sant. HONG KONG—. A debate over censorship of Hong Kong artists has renewed, with a request by the Hong Kong government to omit the word “national” from a pamphlet for a play ... Mathias Woo, executive director of the arts group Zuni Icosahedron, said the pressure to censor in Hong Kong is growing, and that censorship is exerted through restricted resources, exhibit spaces and funding ... ....

Middlesex sculpture wins American Mathematical Society Award (Middlesex University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Jan 2016
(Source. Middlesex University) 'Sword Dancing' sculpture designed by artist George Hart and built with Middlesex University maths students wins the AMS 2016 Mathematical Art Exhibition Awards ... Alex Wiza, who also worked with Prof Hart to build the sculpture, added ... 'They lie in groups of three in twenty planes - the planes of a regular icosahedron which had been compressed by a factor of 1/2 along a five-fold axis.'. Photos ... (noodl....

Clusters of polyhedra in spherical confinement

Edit PNAS 21 Jan 2016
Abstract ... We examine the interplay between anisotropic particle shape and isotropic 3D confinement ... These common structures are layers of optimal spherical codes in most cases, a surprising fact given the significant faceting of the icosahedron and dodecahedron ... ....

THE ROSS LIMITED -- the Most Expensive Chocolate in the World -- Designed in Accordance with the "Divine Proportion"

Edit PR Newswire 14 Jan 2016
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Jan ... The present is a piece of jewelry and gastronomic art ... Each piece of chocolate symbolizes the natural elements such as representing geometrically the so-called Platonic solids which is the most basic of regular polyhedral, a tetrahedron is for fire, an octahedron is for air, a cube is for earth, an icosahedron is for water, a dodecahedron is for ether, and a scope is for vacuum ... SOURCE The Ross Limited ... ....

Artist Illustrates a Fiction With Featureless Topographies

Edit Houston Press 14 Jan 2016
Fielder, who recently returned to school to obtain his Master’s in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin, is interested in recreating or illustrating a fiction ... Two of the models are included in the exhibit ... Previous works include 2010’s octahedron and open-sided cubes, 2009’s dodecahedron, 2008’s icosahedron and hexahedron, and the contorted cube forms of 2007 ... to 6 p.m., Saturdays 10.30 a.m ... Free ... ....

Colima Mexico Volcano, one of Earth's Tetrahedron Vertexes, Erupting

Edit Exopolitics 03 Jan 2016
 . Colima Mexico Volcano, one of Earth's Tetrahedron Vertexes, Erupting. WATCH ON YOU TUBE. https.//youtu.be/CqcwTtDtNIo. Courtesy Tawa, Colima, Mexico. COLIMA (MEXICO) VOLCANO ERUPTING ... octahedron, cube, icosahedron and dodecahedron from the fundamental tetrahedron ... Schmidt Number. S-5944. On-line since ... Question ... Boys enjoy doing it, making these tetrahedrons, cubes, octahedrons, icosahedrons, dodecahedrons, the five regular solids....

Tenants of Hong Kong's PMQ express unhappiness over management amid exodus worries

Edit South China Morning Post 18 Nov 2015
Tenants' complaints about poor management of a heritage site turned creative cluster in Central went unheeded, leading to discontent that could spark an exodus ... At least 10 tenants have left and others are planning to do the same. They said they repeatedly asked for meetings with PMQ management but received no response. "This is simply rude and disrespectful," said Mathias Woo of Zuni Icosahedron, which runs the TTXS Concept Store ... ....

Hong Kong arts review: The World According to Dance

Edit South China Morning Post 19 Oct 2015
This piece is the latest collaboration between director-choreographer Dick Wong Tai-fai and theatre company Zuni Icosahedron. Wong has invited four dancer-choreographers at different ages and stages of their lives and careers to express what dance means to them ... The World According to Dance, Zuni Icosahedron, Studio Theatre, Cultural Centre. Reviewed. October 16 ....

Nano-Silver Has A Golden Side

Edit IFL Science 26 Sep 2015
Osman Bakr of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, told Phys.org ... The authors probed the structure of the two nanoparticles with X-ray diffraction, finding that each have a single atom at the center of a 12-pointed icosahedron, nine "atoms occupy the nine triangular face centers of the core, whereas the remaining three can be found facing away from triangular face centers," the paper notes ... Read this next....

Cosmically-cool Urban Campsite colonizes a deserted beach in Amsterdam

Edit Inhabitat 24 Sep 2015
 .  . a href="http.//www.urbancampsiteamsterdam.com/" target="_blank">Urban Campsite Amsterdam landed on a new location this summer - a sandy, empty peninsula on the outskirts of Amsterdam ... Far from a traditional campsite, this extraordinary solar-powered venue is also conveniently booked through Airbnb.   ... 1. Bedbug ... 2 ... 3 ... Its icosahedron shape allows more rooms to be connected so it can expand to fit even more guests inside ... ....

For 2-D boron, it’s all about that base (Rice University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Sep 2015
(Source. Rice University). Editor's note. Links to images for download appear at the end of this release. David Ruth. 713-348-6327. david@rice.edu. Mike Williams. 713-348-6728 ... HOUSTON - (Sept ... A nickel substrate would work nearly as well, they found ... In an extension, they theorized that naturally forming, 12-atom icosahedrons of boron would assemble into interconnected sheets on copper and nickel, if the boron supply were high enough ... -30-....

1587, A Year of No Significance - hints at Hong Kong's future in play on Chinese history

Edit South China Morning Post 27 Aug 2015
Returning for its eighth run in 16 years, Zuni Icosahedron’s longest stage production 1587, A Year of No Significance is as relevant to Hong Kong today as it was when the work was first staged, according to its cast. To keep this period drama fresh, the show’s creators have reworked and lengthened the play’s kunqu sequence to give an experimental spin on the ancient operatic art form....

Outgoing Hong Kong arts hub chief Michael Lynch bemoans bureaucracy and attitude of some local artists

Edit South China Morning Post 01 Aug 2015
Acrimony over Hong Kong's quest to build a world-class arts hub in West Kowloon has continued with the latest person to bow out as chief executive of the project accusing the city of losing its can-do spirit and the bureaucrats who oversee culture of having none ... But the scepticism continues ... But Woo, co-artistic director and executive director of Zuni Icosahedron and a former consultant to the arts hub, disagreed ... ....
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