Archive for the ‘design’ Category
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Today was the first of MoMA’s P.S.1 warm-up sessions for the summer. Work A.C’s winning entry, P.F.1 has, in a way, restored my faith in the competition. After a few years of The installation is in my view, one of the smartest and best ever to be assembled in the museum’s garden. Not only is it very current as an idea (urban farms), it is simple, utilizes common materials in a different way, it is cheaply made and absolutely cool. It was definitely refreshing to see.
More images after the jump below.
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
We made it downtown to the Phillips de Pury & Company Gallery to take a look at Hani Rashid’s Atmospherics exhibition.
By far the best pieces were the the chandelier, the jewelry boxes and the RP’d vases. The smaller scale pieces just seem to have been figured out a bit better than the larger scale ones.
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
The New Yorker has an interesting article on Buckminster Fuller’s vision and (failed) projects, soon to be on display at The Whitney Museum of Art here in NYC. It poses the question of WHAT is it exactly that is relevant -yet so hard to pin down- of Fuller’s trajectory.
Read the article here.
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
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Today was the opening for Cooper Union’s end of year show. I got to walk around the architecture and art shows and saw a lot of beautiful models, some great drawings, and a few fun/smart pieces of art.
The one above was one of my favorites: a hand crank break dancer + MC Hammer zoetrope. Can’t beat it.
See images of some interesting projects on view after the jump.
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The show at The Brooklyn Museum is absolutely amazing. The exhibit, which is separated in two floors, is very extensive and the quality of the paintings/sculptures/videos etc is just incredible.
As usual, I’ll rant about the museum’s ‘tight-assness’ about taking pictures inside -does Murukami care?…- these guys were truly gestapo style, yelling and running towards people with cameras to get them to stop. That’s what they’re being paid for I guess, but it’s an idiotic policy nonetheless. Makes me wonder if Gagosian has anything to do with it.
Don’t miss the transformer girl in the first level (hard to miss, it takes the main central space) , the short clips in the lower level (anyone knows the name of the little fella?) and the large canvas-tiny DOB blue painting.
View some lousy pics after the jump
Also, don’t miss this circus video of the opening from the NYT…
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Gabe and I have been working on an animatic to enter the contest being held by Radiohead, for user created videos for one of their songs.
We’ll be posting the clip into the site for people to go check it out and vote. Here is one of the stills.
Tags: cool, music, video
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Paul Goldberger has written an interesting article / review in The New Yorker on Foster’s Terminal 5 at Heathrow, and how the idea of the airport was rethought for this specific project. Then, on Rogers’ Terminal 3 in Madrid and how, with smart strategies, the experience of the infinite corridor can be a pleasing one.
Read the article here.
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Last night, after an awesome lecture by Jose Oubrerie on the completion of The Church of Saint Pierre, the student work show GAUD++ curated by the independent study group opened in the first level gallery at Pratt.
From left to right:
Sean Dugan, Mike Szivos, Troy Zezula, Jason Mcgee, Andrew Seskunas and Robert Beach.
View some low quality pics after the jump, but check out better pics from the opening in their blog here.
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