still worked up by those Steelworks ads, then I remembered this ad from the NYTimes Magazine from a couple weeks back: an 8000+ square foot residencies available on Fifth Avenue - ‘the finest on fifth’. Only $31 million. I currently live in an 8000 sq. ft. loft space, albeit with 17 people! We live in [...]
Category Archives: stuffs
also disgusting
2008Feb18
steelworks my bunghole
2008Feb16
as if it isn’t already conflicting enough going to Chelsea for exhibition openings, where one (as in me) is surrounded by bougie types and people of a distinctly higher class who have (nor want) no relation to the world I live in or come from, then to stumble upon a poster advertising condos and lofts [...]
I was wrong, aaaaand I was right
2008Feb04
Two weeks back I quickly mentioned that I found it difficult to imagine heaps of e-waste being worked into contemporary art. Then just last week, inhabitat reported on the “Beauty From E-Waste” photography of Chris Jordan. So it seems you can create beautiful contemporary art from e-waste. But this isn’t exactly what I was talking [...]
randomness
2008Jan17
lenticular advertisement:
I was probably already thinking about public kiosks regarding my recent post because at it turns out I took this sequence of photos the day before I posted about those kiosks, this from Herald Square late at night, which employs lenticular photography to animate an otherwise static advertisement:
hardware geek pdf:
Download the Control Valve Handbook [...]
I absolutely agree that every city should be doing something like this, but disagree completely that ‘every city… should hire’ [via BLDGBLOG] Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert. Their illustrative style speaks West Coast to me, and wouldn’t translate well to say a place like Detroit or Iowa City, for example. The whole art-in-bus-kiosks thing is [...]
e-waste afterlife
2008Jan14
I’ve always appreciated the thought of recycling materials into artistic production (Kurt Schwitters is a perfect example) but I’m just not sure there’s really much to be done with heaps of electronic waste like this:
[from yesterday in the NYTimes]
