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Ernesto Neto
(via Joanne Mattera blog)
Psycho by Saul Bass 
See Pyscho title here. (youtube)
Psycho remake by Gus Van Sant (youtube)
Current 
by Bridget Riley
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53 vertical stripes by Jtwine
White chair 
by Fung Lin hall
Lucian Freud born 8 December 1922
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Lucian Freud R.I.P (previous post)
Esther Freud and Hideous Kinky (Kate Winslet played a mother of Esther Freud and her sister)
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Tree of Codes slideshow here.
Over a year of writing, cutting and proto-typing later, comes Tree of Codes, a haunting new story by Jonathan Safran Foer cut from Bruno Schulz’s words.
The book is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling: here is an “enormous last day of life” that looks like it feels.
Tenderloin Mini Documentaries – animated here.
Pool sounds here.
So the garbage from the millionaire’s mansion mixes with the garbage from the poorest favela?
—Vik Muniz
The film’s representation of this ambitious venture begins by introducing Muniz, whose own story is as unlikely as those of his subjects. He grew up in a working class family in São Paolo, he tells an audience in footage from 1998, and in 1982, he was involved in a street fight (trying to stop it, he says). “As I was going back to the car,” he says, “I get shot by a guy who thought I was one of the guys fighting with him.” As a result, Muniz received a payment from the shooter, enough to buy a ticket to New York in 1983. He sums up: “That’s why I’m talking to you today, because I got shot in the leg.”
(via Popmatters)
What is Captcha?
(captcha business cards ask: are you human?)
And who is Aram Bartholl?
Dead drops 
Brian Liloia is 25-year-old currently living at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in northeastern Missouri, learning to fulfill his desires to live more sustainably and self-sufficiently.
This is The Year of Mud, a blog all about building with cob.
About Year of Mud here.
The Canal 
Lee Rourke
It is published in the UK on 15th July 2010 and in the US 15th June 2010 by Melville House.
Readysteady review of Everyday
Lee Rourke is the author of Everyday, a collection of short stories published by Social Disease. He is also Reviews Editor for 3AM Magazine and edits (with the help of the inimitable Matthew Coleman) his own literary litzine Scarecrow.
Since 2004, as editor of the on-line literary site Scarecrow, Lee Rourke has made it his business to “bang the drum for the unheard, the unconventional, the eccentric, the revolutionary and the radical”, turning his back on “the mainstream bookish blatherskites” and championing “misunderstood, ignored and abandoned underground and independent literary fiction and culture.” There’s something to be said for sticking to your guns:
I have been reading a lot of Heidegger (boredom/mood), Ballard (technology/violence), Beckett (ennui/repetition), Pessoa (emptiness/the ordinary) recently and, in particular, an amazing book called Montano’s Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas (literary suffocation). The Canal could not have been written without the guidance of the above. It’s hard not to be influenced by such writing.
Knife Slicing the wall by Claes Oldenburg and his proposed drawing.
The company, based in San Fernando, California, was founded in 1971. It became one of the best-known resources for artists seeking to produce complicated, large-scale and frequently costly artworks.
“Many artists trying to make work that involves high-tech and precise execution would go to Carlson and they could often figure things out that no one else could,” said New York art adviser Allan Schwartzman.
The firm fabricated some of the most technically challenging artworks created during the six-year rise of contemporary art prices which began in 2002.
Koon’s fabricator Carlson Shuts at recession hits Big Art
Besides Koons, Carlson was the producer of choice for dozens of top contemporary artists, including Doug Aiken, John McCracken and Charles Ray.
See artworks and the list of artists here.
Image via Coolhunting
Plastiki homepage
The Plastiki, a boat made entirely out recyclable plastics, set sail this Saturday from Sausalito Bay, near San Francisco.
Miers Van der Rohe’s birthday today. (March 27)
Visions of space (7 parts)
Miers Miers Van der Rohe .. this one rocks.
Photos taken from my neighborhood
A tent city economy grows in Haiti
The tent city, a former nine-hole golf course, is now home to 50,000 people. There is no way to make money except by selling goods or services right here. So a schoolteacher might open a candy stand. A government accountant might sell spices or batteries.
This is mixed news for Samard. She has more competition for her business, but also more choices as a consumer. Every day, she goes shopping, tent to tent.
Watch Plastic bag by Ramin Bahrani – a sad story narrated by Werner Herzog.
Struggling with its immortality, a discarded plastic bag (voiced by Werner Herzog) ventures through the environmentally barren remains of America as it searches for its maker.
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James Hopkins via
See some fanatastic chairs by famous artists from here.
still life with chair installations and manipulations of
the undemanding object
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Tom Friedman
– his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.
Related links
Cherry, Mahogany and Scott Burton
Maria Callas and the red chair
28 Million dollors chair (Mad Tea Party)
Treehouse 
Sixteen years ago Mr. Gundersen started building a simple A-frame house here for his first wife and their son, Ian, now 15.(via)
Tree room
“Curves are stronger than straight lines,” he explained. “A single arch supporting a roof can laterally brace the building in all directions.”
Desert 
treehouse
(Phoenix Desert Museum)
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(Phoenix Desert Museum)
Related link Farm House with Japanese Garden by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyed Wright with his curious Chinese collection
Two Old Photos (Japanse Woodsman and street basket seller)
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Piranesi from National Gallery of Art
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Fireworks 
by Son of Piranesi
The Girandola at the Castel Sant’Angelo, ca. 1783
Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1756–1810) and Louis-Jean Desprez (French, 1743–1804)
Etching with colored washes
The Dark Brain of Piranesi by Marguerite Yourcenar
(M.Y is known as Madame Bibliotheque – I would like to read her essay on Prisons of Piranesi’s etchings)
Aldous Huxley on Piranesi’s Prisons
The raw material of Piranesi’s designs consists of architectural forms; but, because the Prisons are images of confusion, because their essence is pointlessness, the combination of architectural forms never adds up to an architectural drawing, but remains a free design, untrammelled by any considerations of utility or even possibility, and limited only by the necessity of evoking the general idea of a building.
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This discussion must have taken place at this Farmhouse.
Huize Piranesi
The history of Huize Piranesi is the transition of a farmhouse where the peasant family and their livehood used to live together under one roof, into a family house with space for performances.
In the beginning of the seventies, the house welcomed the philosophers Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, Leszek Kolakowski, Arne Naess and Karl Popper.
Farmhouse build on the inspiration of Piranesi.
From what I could see, Chomsky kicked his bald ass all over the stage.
Nice pairing. Two totally annoying know-it-alls that I’ve learned something from.
I do have to admit that the clip shows Foucault at his most dogmatic, while Chomsky is actually asking for support for creative activities outside his usual focus. Foucault focuses so much on established government institutions, as makes sense for his great work on the Enlightenment, as if Obama had more power than the banks too big to fail, that he could drive me to become a dogmatic Marxist.
(The above from Facebook discussion on occasion of Giovanni B. Piranesi’s birthday – Oct 4)
Charles Gwathmey 
June 19, 1938 – August 3, 2009
NYtimes – The Work of Charles Gwathmey
The house on Long Island designed by Mr. Gwathmey and his partner for Mr. Gwathmey’s parents, completed in 1966, was influential.
Dog house 
Steven Spieldberg Residence <> <> De Menil Residence
Faye Danaway Apartment and Bathroom by Charles Gwathmey
Tangeman University <> <> <> Guggenheim addition
International center of Photography
Client requested not to have a big house –Taft Residence
Charles Gwathmey his homepage.
In some ways, Gwathmey was the architecture world’s Norman Mailer, with the same bravado, the same raw talent, and the same career-long anxiety about whether he could continue to equal his spectacular first performance. (New Yorker postscript)
Willow Grey provided guidance and links below.
These five had a common allegiance to a pure form of architectural modernism, harkening back to the work of Le Corbusier in the 1920s and 1930s, although on closer examination their work was far more individual.[1] The grouping may have had more to do with social and academic allegiances, particularly the mentoring role of Philip Johnson (NY-Five)
Meier’s buildings remain truest to the modernist aesthetic and, true to Corbusian form.
Graves embraced postmodernism.
Eisenman has limited his work to images and models of architectural-looking designs in printed media, because he didn’t get many commissions -however he designed the holocaust museum in Berlin.
John Hedjuk <> <> MoMa Collection
John Hejduk was primarily an educator, and died in 2000.
Gwathmey remained true to modernist style, although its purity has been tempered by realities of larger corporate and public commissions.
Thank you Willow Gray!
Artist, Engineer, Poet, Physicist, Inventor and Visionary, and has for thirthy years pursued a singular course of exploration of space, movement, flight, energy and the force of gravity.
More images from Artnet
Web Gallery 
…Thermo Photovoltaic Energy Convertor
The name Panamarenko is supposedly an acronym for Pan American Airlines and Company.
Raven’s Variable Matrix, 2000.
Thanks to Shaahid Abdou Al Rahman for introducing Panamarenko to us.
Julius Schulman 
Julius Schulman – Modernity & Metropolis -Getty
Shulman died Wednesday at his L.A. home. One observer says he had ‘a profound effect on the writing and teaching of architectural history … especially Southern California modernism.’
Photographic Memory of Julius Schulman
Koenig Case study (LA times) House 22
The Stahl children recall growing up in the iconic glass-and-steel structure, which is marking its 50th year.
Shelter
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman.
David Ireland 
Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland passed away. He was 78.
Kenneth Baker’s obit here.
For an artist who worked in materials as graceless as cement, disused furniture and broken bits of mass-produced garden sculpture, Mr. Ireland enjoyed an unusually varied audience. His reluctance to take himself or his work too seriously nearly always made itself felt. Even people who thought contemporary art absurd often appreciated his willingness to affirm the quotient of absurdity in his work and methods.
Art collector bought his house.
18 great images from Karsten Schubert
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