July 2008
51 posts
Zines Run Amok - The Moment (NYT) →
Must see this next time I’m in Switzerland.
Potential Running Mates for Obama & McCain (NYT) →
Etsy :: heartpiercingcards :: →
Lifetime friend Stephanie Tabb has started selling her beautiful cards on Etsy. You should check it out.
I’ve had the pleasure of receiving them since 1999.
Geisai 11 →
“Kaikai Kiki presents GEISAI #11, the one-of-a-kind art fair conceived by Takashi Murakami, which allows artists to represent themselves and present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts in a professional art fair setting. While space is limited, booth registration for GEISAI #11 is available online on a first-come-first-serve basis to...
Weekend Chore
(1) Fix my bike.
In Ancient Alleys, Modern Comforts:: NYT →
Great story on a number of Beijing resident’s efforts to maintain the historical beauty of siheyuans (traditional Chinese courtyard houses).
If I ever get the opportunity to build my own home, I’d love it to be in the style of these courtyard houses.
Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies →
Very sad news today - I was so touched by the words Randy Pausch spoke at his “Last Lecture” back in September 2007. After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006 - Pausch committed his life to doing exactly what he’d been doing his whole life - loving it, and in this “Last Lecture” - he tells the story of how he led the good life and his thoughts on...
northeastwestsouth.net →
I’m going to be reading this for the next few weeks and seeing what it’s really alllllll about.
“A tool for distributing immaterial resources and intellectual goods in an era of diversification, n.e.w.s. attempts to initiate, build and foster relations and provide a valuable portal dedicated to cultural bricolage, enabling less seen artistic endeavors worldwide...
Discovery Channel :: Extreme Engineering:... →
This would be an absolute dream for me.
"Coming to a big screen near you – live opera" via... →
Tony Hall and the amazing team over @ ROH are doing it bigger and better than before. They are screening 16 ballets and operas at over 112 cinemas in London and all over the Continent LIVE.
There has been a ton of press for what the Met is doing - and I’m not hating at all - but this is definitely the next level of encouraging people to attend the opera and experience new arenas of the...
“You know how it is. You’re in a foreign city, miles from home, and you...”
– My brief moment of cultural patriotism | Art & architecture | guardian.co.uk
The first paragraph of Jonathan Jones’ piece over @ the Guardian today - he’s talking about walking into the Met and Houston’s MFA and seeing BritArt (much of which he deems the second class of what...
The Sartorialist: Variation on a Theme (part 2),... →
I’d love to own any of these three dresses. I’m currently on the hunt for a dress for a wedding in late August - these are serious inspiration.
ICA London: Nought to Sixty
Something exciting is happening over on the Mall in London.
The ICA’s new rotating exhibition Nought to Sixty is underway. It is being billed as, “an ambitious, fast-moving programme of exhibitions and events that - over the course of six months - is presenting solo projects by sixty emerging British- and Irish-based artists. This wide-ranging programme is being held at the ICA from...
Frieze Magazine - "Genuinely Rude" - Comment by... →
Fantastic opinion piece by one of my favorite cultural commentators Nick Currie on the value (or lack thereof) of negativity in art journalism.
“I realized that whatever we do or don’t do, we’re utterly exposed.”
– Kay Ryan, Outsider Who Revels in Wordplay, Is Named Poet Laureate - NYTimes.com
Helmut Newton Foundation | Pigozzi & the Paparazzi →
Some great shots from the current exhibition @ the Helmut Newton Foundation to coincide with Berlin Fashion Week.
Culture: Louvre draws a veil over artistic neglect... →
Looking forward to seeing the new wing for Islamic Art @ the Louvre completed in just two years (does that seem aggressive and a bit fast for anyone else?)
Interesting concept that Chirac put forth that building a wing for Islamic Art could act as a domestically diplomatic act to avoid a clash of civilizations (Samuel Huntington anyone?)
Cultural diplomacy on a local level.
You know I’m a...
Le Corbusier Le Grand →
Yes please.
(An eventual addition to my architecture book collection - flipping through some of these books gives me the closest thing to calm and medidation I’ve ever gotten)
“Perhaps the most contradictory thing about Le Corbusier, however, is that he...”
– The many contradictions of Le Corbusier | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling @... →
DYING to this exhibition @ MoMA.
It opens this Sunday and stays up until October 20. I’ve always dreamed of owning a prefab house.
Must read: "Me and My Girls" by David Carr (NYT) →
“What if I told you I was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke? Now what if I said that I was a recovered crack addict who got custody of my twin girls, got us off welfare and raised them? Both are the story of my life.”
manifesta7 →
dreaming of catching part of this before it’s over in november. i don’t think i’ll be able to swing it but i never say never.
keeping up via frieze.
“So I have this fantasy: Suppose that the United States focused less on blowing...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Nicholas D. Kristof - Building Schools in Afghanistan - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
"My Plan for Iraq" by Barack Obama →
From this weekend’s NYTimes.
Even if you aren’t an Obama supporter, it’s important to understand the platforms of both nominees as we approach an election year.
READ THIS.
In addition, I just made another donation to the Obama campaign. You can too.
Op-Ed - Gail Collins - "The Audacity of Listening"... →
Read it.
The Boys and the Subway - Niemann Opinion Art Blog... →
Anyone who know’s me knows that I love public transportation (even though I own a car) - there’s nothing better for me than travelling in a European city and being able to navigate on my own… it’s easy, it’s freeing, it’s a beautiful thing.
I am by NO MEANS as in love with public transportation at the boys depicted in this adorable comic in the NYT though. I...
Most recent subscription
WIRED magazine.
$10 for a year.
UNSTOPPABLE.
Currently reading: Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green from the June issue. (Via Stephane)
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds →
Obsessed.
(via Kevin)
Obsessed with this construction, called “Technicolor Bloom” by Brennan Buck.
Via dezeen
The Moment The Insider | Joerg Koch « - T Magazine... →
VERY into this week’s “Insider” profile over @ the Moment Blog for NYT. (Especially love the desk featured in the picture of Joerg Koch).
Discobelle.net » Genevan Heathen x Matt Foley →
Spread the LOVE of the new Heathen track “Eazy E”…. click to download.
“All new apartments in the city had to have a separate bathroom and kitchen, as...”
– UNESCO Celebrates Modernism: Berlin’s Social Housing Gets World Heritage Status - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
This is really great - Berlin’s social housing projects of the Weimar Republic are now forever protected…. I missed visiting these when I was in Berlin last...
Rudin House by Herzog & de Meuron →
In love with this house.
(via Apartment Therapy)
Shipping Container Funhouse From Phooey Architects... →
I would love to have some amazing retail, art/gallery, and music spaces in a series of shipping containers somewhere in Boston - perhaps in an area that’s under development but needs to start creating a ‘destination’ vibe.
After glimpsing through some of these images and reading a feature in GOOD Magazine (I think) - on how they’re used internationally (mostly in the...