November 2011
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October 2011
2 posts
““Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
September 2011
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“Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like white water lilies....”
– Milan Kundera
August 2011
6 posts
Leonardo Ricci
Article via Domus
In December 1957, Domus published “a scheme for 15 houses” on the Monterinaldi hill overlooking Florence, where the architect Leonardo Ricci had transformed the steep slope of a stone quarry into an experiment in open housing. Ricci sums up the project’s philosophy of client scouting and self-construction thus: “It would perhaps be best if everybody could build their own house…...
Al Taylor
Article via artdaily.org:
While he began his studio practice as a painter, in 1985 Taylor devised a uniquely innovative approach to process and materials that encompassed two-dimensional drawings and three-dimensional objects. Taylor ultimately sought to expand the possibilities of vision by creating new ways of experiencing and imagining space, and his work provides the viewer with an...
Monty Python's Flying Circus Episode 24- Gavin...
Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shunt’s work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me, who talk loudly in restaurants, see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanized world. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of...
June 2011
17 posts
“If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
– John Waters
Jerry Ott
Paintings
Nightsearch- Elise Guillod
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Kuhn’s approach to the history and philosophy of science has been described as focusing on conceptual issues: what sorts of ideas were thinkable at a particular time? What sorts of intellectual options and strategies were available to people during a given period? What types of lexicons and terminology were known and employed during certain epochs? Stressing the importance of not...
May 2011
7 posts
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Herb Lubalin
Eugene Raskin
April 2011
21 posts
WatchAcne- Concrete Island
by Daniel & Lorin Askill
Superstudio
“…if design is merely an inducement to consume, then we must reject design; if architecture is merely the codifying of bourgeois model of ownership and society, then we must reject architecture; if architecture and town planning is merely the formalization of present unjust social divisions, then we must reject town planning and its cities…until all design activities are aimed towards...
WatchCeremony Super Surface
