November 2009
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some none analogue mapping
here is a interactive real time mapping of ebay’s black friday. You can practically see the sun’s light travel across the country waking people up so they can spend moneylink to the map
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analogue diagrams
I went to the the moma this past friday, black friday, thinking it would be pretty empty due to all the retail consumption, well i was wrong. The Tim Burton was impossible so we walked in and then right out again. We did how ever make it through the bauhaus show which was an amazing time capsule of the institutes oeuvre. The exhibit outlined the schools history and the evolving pedagogy though...
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icon minds conference videos
the first icon minds conference feat. Farshid Moussavi, Charles Jencks, Marjan Colletti,Dunne & Raby, Bruce Sterling,Joseph Grima, Julien de Smedt, Ronan Bouroullec and Justin McGuirk.
see all the videos here
KFC? WTF! this is not good
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history of architecture
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demolition?
i found this at core.form-ula
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pebble toad
Vs. the toad eating taranchula
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A rather noble cock.........and other works
a rather noble cock, 2009
Kris Kuksi is an american artist working in paintings, drawings and as shown here; mixed media assemblages.
His work collapses mediums, motifs, styles, cultures and iconic references by distilling all the parts into a bone like state that allows each element to retain it’s essence while freeing it from it’s culturally understood environment. He layers and...
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Demuth
I have always loved this painting and since it is part of the permanent collection at the Whitney I can basically see it whenever I want to, so when I was up at the Whitney last Friday for the Roni Horn show I went and paid it a visit.
My Egypt_1927
Charles Demuth 1883-1935
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i heart becher
and i heart the other becher too.
Bernd and Hilla Becher were German artists who documented industrial buildings.
They were at once collaborators and a couple. Bernd died in 2007 at the age of 76, survived by Hilla who is now 75, they worked together for 48 years and were married for 45.
In 2004 the Becher’s won the Hasselblad Award. The award commity said this of their work:
Bernd and...
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artist draws 18ft picture of New York skyline from...
Autistic artist Stephan Wiltshire drew a spellbinding 18’ long picture of the New York skyline completely from memory, after only a 20 minute helicopter ride over the city
This astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.
The unbelievably intricate picture...
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Roni Horn
I saw the Roni Horn retrospective yesterday at the Whitney Museum and I was completely blown away by her ink on paper constructions.
I’ll add more later but here are just a few shots that honestly don’t come close to expressing the true power of these piece
close up details
Two Sides of the Same Story
my car on google maps
my car parked outside of PS1 this summer from when i was working on the summer warm-up installation with MOS
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section porn
while “plans” or “floor plans” may be the generic term for drawings produced by architects, the floor plans are only one of a myriad of drawing types to be found in a drawing set. sets are made up of plans, elevations and sections, and these drawing types come in varying scales with different prefixes and suffixes. and while all of these drawings are essential in both...
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to butcher
it’s interesting how the most common use of the verb “butcher” essentially means to hack and destroy when in fact the art of butchering an animal is just that, an art and anything but hacking and destroying, it is based on a very clean and precise mapping of the animal anatomy coupled with a very detailed dissection process to efficiently glean the most amount of sustenance from...
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the meaning of 4ºC
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just doing a little bit of math.....
some “ninja arithmetic” i submitted to ANMP (architecture my ninja please) yesterday, and make sure to check out ryan’s site it’s really good, always part of my early morning web-rounds
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i heart wang shu / amateur architecture studio
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This is the Ningbo Historic Museum in Ningo China designed by Wang Shu and his firm Amateur Architecture Studio.
The new museum was built out of “collected and recycled building materials from the area” said Wang Shu who his ” architecture to tell people what life in this city used to look like” and was designed “as a small city in...
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exploded
I made a trip up to Boston this weekend and made a point to go see Diller & Scofidio + Renfro’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA pics can be seen here). I was going only to see the building and really only planned on making a quick trip and ignoring all the art but when we got off the elevator on the main gallery level I was blown away. The ICA was holding a retrospective of Damian...
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ahhhhh...the future!.....straight from yesterday
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out @ the bar...
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for john’s 26th birthday and “a clockwork orange” was on, which i really wasn’t paying any attention too until this shot appeared, projected 4’ tall across the back wall
the building in the background turns out to be the lecture theater from the Brunel University campus. I think it was designed by Gollins, Melvin, Ward and Partners but...
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Laser scan your building
for years we have scanned images and laser cut models
now we can laser scan our buildings, talk about putting together a set of “as-built” drawings for a renovation project.
a team from the Glasgow School of Art and the government heritage entity Historic Scotland make laser scans and computer models of historic sites, both man-made and natural, for a deeper and more detailed...
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archi-tetris
Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.
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ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and...
By the middle of next year, Internet surfers will be allowed to use Web addresses written completely in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other languages using non-Latin alphabets, the organization overseeing Internet domain names announced Friday in a decision that could make the Web more accessible (Read more @ nytimes.com)
what this really means is that keyboards of computer users outside the U.S....
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I heart Urbanus
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Integrated Teaching Building, Chinese University of Hong Kong by Urbanas
Entitled “Windows on Community,”
Model shots
a beautiful condition
a facade corb would be proud of
great use of the landscape
Plans
Sections
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mappings
bigger
this reminds me of the maps and sketches in ” the complete works of t.s. spivet”
a map of obstacles between Montana and D.C.
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Circular Carbon Fiber Loom
With over 150 years of looming experience, ToMoCo owns a rotary weaver — one of two in existence — which it repurposed to create the carbon fiber A-pillars on the LFA. One of only two circular looms in the world is used to weave dual-tube carbon fiber components
reblogged from John @ data_rush who reblogged it from Richard @ coreformula
