Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of a Man, possibly an Architect or a Geographer. 1598 the artist before an 8 year stay in Italy. Once thought to be looted during ww2 because of a dubious provenance through the hands of the Art Dealer Karl Haberstock. Research from the German art journal "Jahrbuch der Preuszischen" proved otherwise stating it was in the possession of an American by 1924. Currently safe and sound at the Met.
10:35 PM :
Here is your freshner mother, Chad = Asterikos*
8:40 PM :
Disturbing Search Requests. Odd queries for the site stat obsessed. Berliners Sean Floyd and Christoph Lincke's site dedicated to the what people are 'really' searching for online. Naked Ugly Midget Short People Amish Andrea True Connection Meredith Baxter Birney Safety Pin Jiffy-Pop Porno and more!
8:20 AM :
The Art Exhibition Century City @ the Tate Modern explores the relationship between cultural creativity and the metropolis. Focusing on nine cities from around the world at specific moments over the last hundred years, the nine cities featured here generated a distinct artistic culture, they can also be seen as emblematic of wider global tendencies. Century City is a celebration of creative flashpoints, the pivotal artistic and intellectual movements that have emerged in and reflect the context of the metropolis. Bombay/Mumbai 1992-2001, Lagos 1955-70, London 1990-2001, Moscow 1916-30, New York 1969-74, Paris 1905-15, Rio de Janeiro 1955-69, Tokyo 1969-73, Vienna 1908-18.
7:32 AM :
Tuesday, March 06, 2001
It is well-nigh hopeless to head out in this ungodly snowstorm!
9:39 AM :
A Plea For Recommendations? I Prescribe the following:
Stan Getz Joao Gilberto Antonio Carlos Jobim - Getz/Gilberto
The Dave Brubeck Quartet w/Paul Desmond - Time Out
Cinema Paradiso 'Original Soundtrack' - Ennio Morricone
9:38 AM :
Monday, March 05, 2001
The beauty of the night
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased,
the lesson done.
The fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the
themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death, and the stars... Walt Whitman
Snowed in, 15 whole degrees as the east coast shuts completely down. Warm candlelight flickers on the wall as my day closes. The news plays silently, my black dog sleeps, I fold my gray trousers, white t-shirts, to put away in the bureau. I put down my pen, and paper, closing my text book, taking off my glasses to set them on the table next to my bed.
11:08 PM :
More Fun In The New World. From the Collaborative Effort: The Shock Of The New | Object Space Performance and Hybrid - a paradigm shift in architectural thinking, because, Gregg Lynn FORM:
'to develop a critical, experimental practice aided by contemporary design software architects must first rethink their approach to design based on time, topology, and parameters. Part of such a challenge is conceiving of an architecture in the process of becoming, where structures are less static totalities resisting the force of gravity and more dynamic multiplicities formed in the context of fluid, mutable media: an architecture formed in reaction to forces not simply built to resist them.'
Say goodbye to the grid and hello to a new fluidity, digital technology makes it possible for Lynn and Gehry as well as many others to fabricate and construct, new forms. The amorphous fluidity is not without precedent, or a heritage of visionary work. it struck me today how far into the future ideas echo. The 1600's, Francesco Borromini; disgruntled student of Gianlorenzo Bernini working antithetical to the classical. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ( Saint Charles of the Four Fountains), fluid, concave, convex forms, dynamic, alive. San Ivo Della Sapienza erases an axial adjustment and soars with invenzione into a dream of fantasy architecture. Lastly, Guarino Guarini springs polygons from the vertex to explode the dome from the church of Santo Sindone in Turin. Technology and time separate distinct visionaries but vision connects point A. to point B..
7:21 PM :
Sunday, March 04, 2001
Post-Modernism is alive and well, (Post-Modernism, I laugh!) Architect Frank O. Gehry might bend but he doesn't break. Everyday on site is more amazing than the last - an exciting explosion / implosion! Experimental urges are satiated, Truck drivers make great architects, Carl Andre as inspiration, Donald Judd rocks my world, I enjoy searching for context, I enjoy the 'anti-aesthetic' and all is right with this crazy mixed up world.
7:06 PM :
The real power of the new wave, however, may lie not in its curvy sex appeal but in the ways it threatens the theoretical models that now rule architecture. Already it has begun to chip away at some of the sturdier monuments of the aging dogma, among them the idea that to be worth anything a design needs to be difficult and opaque�with extra points for dreariness.-Digital Design Manifesto: Beauty Is In, Irony is Out and the Revolutionaries Are At Your Door.
6:49 PM :
File under: Toronto, Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Greenwich Village, Robert Moses, urban renewal, slum, Ed Logue, garden city, Lewis Mumford, The Atrocities of Urban Renewal, Resiliency of Cities, and Sameness.
6:48 PM :
