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Regardless of our current political differences, I had a good experience with boy scouts. But these kids make me jealous: swfobject.embedSWF(”http://www.youtube.com/v/bYoT14ZRY2E&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-459-youtube-1″, “525″, “425″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); If I were to spend $500 and the next two weeks of my life on this: Would that be just awesome? Or, Would it be the most brilliantly awesome thing in the history of humanity? I really just can’t decide… We have the waterfalls. We have the technology–> So how about we just solve this whole energy crisis right now? Urban-ism has a nice roundup of some standouts from culture jamming genre, the best of which are the Homeless street signs in Toronto by Mark Daye, a graphic design student. My favorite sign is at right. Culture jamming actually being practiced in the world (as distinct from that practiced in glossy mags) makes me extremely [...] The Town by Victor Servranckx Photo from monkeycycle. Thanks! TXTris: People text in messages, which then drop down onto the Toronto skyline, which fragments the words as letters fall to different depths, stacking tetris-style. I’m sure this can be a metaphor for many things, but lets set textual analysis aside and just agree that this is really cool. Here’s an excerpt from the best spam comment I’ve received here at After Corbu: Studies have the past gadoversetamide policies or of drinking detail. Views of the source of time gadoxetic acid when an galantamine interview. From the infect another an active galdansetron syndrome. It will from those gallamine triethiodide new health influences. The two charged by [...] Pax Americana, in defense of deductable charitable donations for the arts: The first [reason] is that deductions are an indirect subsidy to lots of people who aren’t rich, including the middle class, artists, and those that benefit from the research done by universities, which might end up including poor people. The second is that if we [...] “Old-timer, keeping up with the boys. Many structural workers are above middle-age. Empire State [Building]” Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1930 (check out more of his work at the National Archives). I’ve been spending most of my work-time on the engineering for a 700-foot steel building, and so it’s neat to see all the small pieces and [...] The Rachofsky House: a modernist bachelor pad turned private art gallery (site of the previously mentioned Death-by-Meta show). Lots of Meier trademarks here: white, strict adherence to a visibly articulated grid, sterile. To my eyes, very beautiful as an art piece (as a home? Well…maybe not, but then this is the typical critique of modern architecture. [...] Speaking of Chris Burden and meta-art, Spawn of the Surreal has good discussion on the imitation of famous art (including Burden’s Shoot) in Second Life. An appropriately snarky conclusion is reached: Video killed the performance art stars. RIP. Reading Reluctant Metropolis, I discover that the above Disney Concert Hall was originally intended to be clad in stone. This was later changed to steel as a cost-saving measure. Hard to imagine the building different than it is now, harder to believe Gehry was actually willing to go with a less space-age look. This speaks to [...] Picture from sam brown, explodingdog. Thanks! |
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