Have A Seat
Emeco debuted a new designer collaboration at the Salone del Mobile in Milan last week. The Broom chair created with Philippe Starck is recycled and recyclable, a mix of 75% reclaimed polypropylene, 15% reclaimed wood fiber and 10% glass fiber.
Dreaming
Man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.—William Faulkner in The Paris Review, Spring 1956
Leap Year
The leap year’s extra day is necessary because of the “messiness” of our Solar System. One Earth year (a complete orbit around the Sun) does not take an exact number of whole days (one complete spin of the Earth on its axis). In fact, it takes 365.2422 days, give or take.—BBC’s Leap year: 10 things [...]
Bigert & Bergström, The Last Calendar
The perfect gift for your favorite prophet! From Cabinet: When the current cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar concludes on 21 December 2012, the world will end. Of course, this is hardly the first time the planet’s demise has been prophesied. And so Cabinet offers you, doomed reader, a guide to the brief time that remains. [...]
VOGUE
Tropes can elicit ooohs, aaahs, oh no, not that again—a place where affect is held in suspension over the historical and its signifiers. It is the experience of “I know what the overused parts are and will they only remain as themselves, or is there some combinatory manner in which they achieve something unpredictable that [...]
Romance downtown
Last week I mentioned an exciting project I was going to participate it in. It was simple effort but made a huge impact on the intended party as well as many passersby. My neighbors are an Australian couple named Craig and Greg. They moved to NY in June of last year and I took the [...]
A little different transmission tower
A transmission tower near Újhartyán, Hungary, was built to resemble a clown. The pylons follow a worldwide trend in trying to make large industrial objects more humanoid.
The Sky Above
Corporeality puts our feet on the ground and our head in the sky. The temporal, what we see at a particular moment is for that moment. Our consciousness and physical presence makes this possible.
REPOSE
A PHYSICAL FILE CONTAINING PHOTOGRAPHS AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE EXISTS. FAME, IS NOT A PART OF THE CRITERIA, IN FACT IT CAN REMOVE ONE FROM THE SYSTEM. INCLUSION IS BASED ON CONTRIBUTION, SOME WOULD CONSIDER IT CULTURAL CAPITAL. IT RANGES FROM A WOMAN WHO DROVE TO HER HOME TO GET A WIRE COAT HANGER WHEN KEYS [...]
Fiction & Non-Fiction (People who live in glass house build another house in brick to sleep in.)
New York has been delivering of late. The service laden city has been providing narrative(s)—the best of which hover over fiction, but in fact are real. A well occupied truism, that is in fact, true. People can be classified in this manner as well. Practitioners or objects themselves that maintain a position along this precipice [...]
DOLE
In most times, and conversations for that matter, if a bit of excavation is done, one can expose many historical strata of exercises in contrast. Geologic time is intentionally being invoked—as it has to do with flow and expectations, and a certain vigilance in the examination and questioning of not only of who we are, [...]
Climate Week NYC
Time to say goodbye to Fashion Week and hello to Climate Week NYC. From today until September 26th, New York City will host an annual summit with meetings between the world’s leading businesses and governments and an array of events focused on driving a “clean industrial revolution.”
Ultra-Ex
Ultra (Urban Long Term Research Area) scientists have found an interesting use for vacant urban lots—they study “bird and insect populations, watershed systems, soil nematodes and urban farming” in these abandoned areas. According to the Times, “Ultra-Ex advances a forward-looking mission: to document the ecological benefits that vacant lots might provide and to redefine the [...]
Paul Thek, Untitled Seascape
Also, if in LA then there’s still time to see the best show of the year (so far)—Paul Thek’s retrospective. It’s on view at the Hammer Museum until August 28.
Lesley Vance, Untitled
If in LA, don’t miss Lesley Vance’s solo show at David Kordansky Gallery. Closes August 13. Review here!
Lawrence Weiner, Rocks Upon the Beach Sand Upon the Rocks
“Weiner’s medium is language. As a Conceptual artist his constructions of words and phrases seek to affect our perception of the spaces they are presented in. In appearance the language used by the artist is plain and neutral. In effect, however, this particular piece is quite evocative—the artist invites us to imagine ourselves surrounded by [...]
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Some things…)
“I don’t think I’ve ever done an image that was meant to be reoccurring in the beginning. What happens is that after drawing one you can’t leave them. They have more to say to you. In a way it can take on a life of its own. I guess people probably think that these are [...]
Trisha Donnelly, Untitled
A black-and-white photo affixed directly to the wall. A white border frames the image of a rock jutting out of water. Waves eddying around its base suggest it is an ocean rock. The rock rises from the left, descends, rises even higher to a peak, descends deeply, then rises and plateaus creating a slightly rounded [...]
Motor on Mongol Rally
Like adventure? Love roughing it? Want to travel more than a third of the Earth’s surface at a frantic, manic, exciting pace? Then sign up for the Adventurist’s Mongol Rally race.
Shipbuilding
i can see why noah was so famous for building a boat with no nails or screws. jesus. i just moved into a new space in downtown LA. I miss new york – i never read here because there’s no subway and unless i get a job as a taxi driver i’m not going to [...]
Barefoot on Grass
I just came across this via Inhabitat (so those of you who are all “up-to-the-minute” on the internet are rolling your eyes) — but what a perfect thing. If only they could somehow make one with that great Playa Guiones sand; those of us in NYC could pretend we were back by the Harmony Hotel’s [...]
