On creativity – Royal Society of Art animation
October 21, 2010
art
Ruin Academy
October 17, 2010
You may have seen the work of architect Marco Casagrande here before—his Walking Barns series in Finland or his Chen House in Taiwan. He is now involved in a project in Taiwan called Ruin Academy.
John Cleese on creativity
September 7, 2010
Sleep on it.
“Suits weren’t more stylish then, there’s just less stylish people now”
August 24, 2010
I love Alan Price who, among other things, was the founder of The Animals in 1962. He wrote the soundtrack for Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 film O Lucky Man! with Malcolm McDowell.
Shigeru Ban & paper architecture
August 16, 2010
Shigeru Ban is well known for his paper architecture, in particular the emergency structures designed for regions struck by disaster, notably houses for the Japanese city of Kobe hit by a devastating earthquake in 1995, and a series of paper tent structures for the UN High Commission for Refugees in Rwanda in 1999.
Koolhaas Houselife
August 9, 2010
While on the topic of buildings that don’t always function the way we want them to, I was reminded of the quite hilarious 2008 documentary Koolhaas Houselife, in which a housekeeper talks about the difficulties of cleaning one of Koolhaas’ houses.
Atention People’s Faceing Northeast
August 6, 2010
Photocopied sign found taped to telephone pole in Chinatown, a few blocks from my studio. Beautiful poster of the apocalyptic warning variety. “The dotes are the extraterrestrials ship’s.” I love how ‘dots’ is misspelled, and apostrophe is on the wrong word, but A+ on spelling ‘extraterrestrials’ correctly.
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Vancouver
Hunt & Gather, summer clothing sale at the Ouno studio
August 5, 2010
In Vancouver this weekend? Vancouver designer Natalie Purschwitz’s Hunt & Gather clothing line will be showing its late summer/early fall 2010 clothing at the Ouno studio this Saturday, August 7, 3-7 pm at 636 Keefer Street, a few blocks E.
Shangaan electro: TsheTsha Boys
July 29, 2010
This is current electro dance/music from S. Africa. The Shangaan people (or Tsonga) live in the Transkei area near the border with Mozambique. This is a bit of an aside, and it’s going back a bit farther, but when I worked in South Africa I had a thing for Shangaan jive though Zulu jive was more popular then.
La Mexicaine de Perforation, Paris
July 26, 2010
These are the only two photographs I could find of a clandestine cinema temporarily located in the Paris Catacombs and accidentally discovered by the police in 2006 while on a training exercise.
