“A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood”
- Bartholomäus Traubeck’s Years
posted 1 week ago on January 20th, 2012 at 17:30 / ∞
The squelching, scissoring, oozing claymation birds in Nathalie Djurberg’s “The Parade” will be threatening the public until the end of 2011 at the Walker Art Center. See them!
posted 2 months ago on November 10th, 2011 at 11:46 / ∞
Christopher Doyle™ Identity Guidelines totally had me in stitches today at the Walker Art Center’s “Now in Production” graphic design show.
posted 2 months ago on November 5th, 2011 at 23:10 / ∞
Postwar Designers in their own chairs: “Unfettered by dogma, the creators of contemporary American furniture have a flair for combining functionalism with esthetic enjoyment.” Playboy, July 1961
posted 3 months ago on October 26th, 2011 at 16:56 / ∞
“There is no empathy in utopia because there is no suffering” - Jeremy Rifkin
posted 3 months ago on October 17th, 2011 at 20:28 / ∞
«Complicated systems have many moving parts but they operate in patterned ways … complex systems, by contrast, are imbued with features that may operate in patterned ways, but whose interactions are continually changing»
— “Learning to Live with Complexity” by Gökçe Sargut and Rita Gunther McGrath
posted 4 months ago on September 17th, 2011 at 18:04 / ∞
Loved the superhero proportions on “The Girl on the Grasshopper” (2009) by Singaporian-Canadian artist Koi Neng Liu, which I checked last week at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Roswell, New Mexico.
posted 5 months ago on August 21st, 2011 at 15:21 / ∞
In John Powers’ essay on whiteness he quotes Mark Wigley: “the central role of whiteness in the extended history of of the concept of cleanness. Modern architecture joins the doctors white coat, the white tiles of the bathroom, the white walls of the hospital”
posted 5 months ago on August 4th, 2011 at 11:07 / ∞
Karel Martens designed this series of iconographics which he combines for a digital wallpaper. Apparently, from a distance the covering recreates the sky in The Netherlands the day his son was born. I’ve recently been digging into Viviane Beck Ertell’s “The Colorful World of Buttons” and unleashed a similar fascination into circular patterns.
posted 6 months ago on July 18th, 2011 at 09:57 / ∞
Chilean designer Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo’s “Thanatos” reminds me of Iskra Dimitrova’s Thanatometamorphosis (2007 Global Feminisms show, Brooklyn Museum)
posted 6 months ago on July 13th, 2011 at 02:25 / ∞
Abe “Gettin’ Paid” Lincoln by Mason from his New Jack Swing style collage art. The Picasso is pretty sweet too.
posted 7 months ago on June 15th, 2011 at 22:06 / ∞
House-shaped greenhouses in Lisa Dagnal’s Bulger, Pennsylvania actual farmville with max upgrades :) replete with touch-controlled gas fireplace.
posted 7 months ago on June 10th, 2011 at 01:12 / ∞
A playful sequencer from littlelover that has a nuanced intelligent light show that works beautifully
A different approach to the Arab world youthquake from Najma al Zidjaly “So what I and my fellow Omanis have learned from the protests is that we need to talk, peacefully, respectfully and responsibly, about our past, present and future; about our recent disconnect; and about our shared investment and responsibility.”
posted 10 months ago on March 8th, 2011 at 10:24 / ∞
Timme Hovind’s in situ photo exhibition at Rudersdal Forest in Denmark.
posted 11 months ago on February 5th, 2011 at 23:11 / ∞
