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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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.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU.
Gabe just pointed me to this amazing stop-motion-painting-on-walls video from Buenos Aires. Absolutely incredible.
Take a look at some of their other work here.
It really isn’t officially a recession until your local restaurant tells you it is. Then you know you’re screwed.
Hotpads has some impressive heat maps of the foreclosure crisis throughout main cities and regions in the U.S. So far Manhattan is in the clear, but check out how the red is starting to creep up. Scary.
View the interactive map for NYC here.
via [techcrunch]
Funded by NASA and Department of Energy, The Vulcan Project is an effort to quantify the emissions of CO2 within North America at a scale never seen before, up to individual power plants…
Check out their YouTube video here to see some other fantastic visualizations.
via [wired ]
International Pillow Fight Day is all about the feathers…at least it was for me…floating in the air, catching the light…beautiful feathers. Oh and beating everyone senseless with a pillow till my arms hurt all the while laughing maniacally. It was a brief moment of anarchy, people simultaneously laughing, crying and choking on feathers. Beautiful feathers.
The event was undoubtedly well documented as there were easily as many people with cameras as pillows, and a few true brave souls with both. I leave you with a link to some great Flickr photos and one to a YouTube edit that keeps it short but gives a good sense of the whole progression of the event.
Nicolai Ouroussoff from The New York Times has an article on Manhattan’s rise of residential starchitecture.
We’ll see how long this trend lasts.
Read the article here.
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Last night we got treated to this awesome display of talent in the 4 train (at 1:30 am…) from Bleecker to 86th Street – non stop. I’m still singing: chicken noodle soup, shake shake chicken noodle soup… do it for the ladies…
View the full ride after the jump below.