Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
the exigency of art
I've noticed in the last months that the former 'arts district' of culver city is slowly drying up with a large number of the local galleries and independent shops being forced to close their doors due to the struggling economy. It got me thinking about when times get difficult, the arts are the first flesh to be severed from the bone as unnecessary. Wealth aside, what if the pizza hut, or the car dealership, or the gentleman's club went belly up instead? It seems that art is really viewed outside of the core ideals of the general public; as something that's decadent, superfluously commodified, and easily jettisoned. A spectacle to be viewed and sometimes appreciated in conversation, but not something that could alter one's perception, elevate one's senses, or actually be a force in changing reality. It just feels right now that art is packaged up and is in storage; until there is a surplus of time, money, or the desire for difference again...
Quite lonely then.
simultaneity.
the more subtle approach is to seek the notion that chaos is a mix of several states of order.
what is an improvisation is in fact a kernal of stability, which in turn sets sequences that reach equilibrium.
several equilibriums coexist.
simultaneity matters; not hierarchy.
cecil balmond.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What then is time?
"What then is time?
If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to a questioner, I do not know...we measure times.
But how can we measure what does not exist?
The past is no longer, the future is not yet. And what of the present? The present has not duration...in order that we may compare a short and a long syllable, both must have died away. Thus, I do not measure the syllables themselves, but the images of the two tones in my memory...
thus when I measure time, I measure impressions,
modifications of consciousness".
Saint Augustin.
kolumba
kolumba museum. cologne, de.
"life is too short to make compromises in architecture".
p.zumthor
Manhattan. where the wild things are
sometimes i imagined that central park and morningside park were actually the edges of an endless jungle or forest. where the wild things live..
as inner city parks they are truly expansive, but in knowing that they do have the sharpest of margins, makes their density even more microcosmic and infinitely deep. full of all manner of beauty and ugliness.
the body of architecture
"Architecture expresses itself, not by the emptiness it occupies, but by what actually surrounds us...whether it is skin, or leather, or limestone, or cherry wood.
They produce a feeling on your skin, on your body...i am concerned very much with physicality, the body of architecture".
p.zumthor
[the synthetic irony of these images, however, intrigues me in terms of the feeling that they are able to provoke versus the ephemeral qualities and material integrity that zumthor describes].
the irony of opposites
A moment of indetermination of form and reason;
Allowing one's mind to blur recognition and definition.
When imagination and dreams momentarily merge and
expand reality.
zaha hadid: relief
i've always been interested by these low relief renderings on cardstock by zaha hadid.
tod williams+billie tsien used to do something similar in basswood.
tod williams+billie tsien used to do something similar in basswood.
an abstract representational artform that increasingly finds less of a place in this unfortunate profession.
caught
i don't know how often satellite imagery/data is updated, but flight #??? to John Wayne Regional Airport was caught over Newport Beach this day.
precastopede
two childhood memories of centipedes:
1. i remember my parents telling us as children that if you cut a centipede in half, the two halves will continue to run independently. we of course went out and caught a nice 12 incher, cut it in two..they weren't joking..
2. i remember marvelling at the dynamically armoured exoskeleton of tropical centipedes. someone once threw one on a fire and it exploded wildly from within buckling its shiny black crenellated shell at each articulated joint.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This one's glassed!
lasts that long!
Thanks for the great glassing Javier (Hern surfboards).
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
sacred craft: del mar_part 2
sacred craft consumer surfboard expo: del mar, ca. 10oct09
overview of the frothing surfboard hungry mass.
seemed to be many more quality shapers exhibiting compared to ventura.
probably because it was literally in the surfboard industry's backyard.
some really inspiring ideas and designs on offer.
a trip worth taking.
tribute to dick brewer's classic guns: reno abillera (L), dennis murphy (R)
eli mirandon and 10 iterations of his 'porpoise' design
daniel thompson designs: stringerless and so light i could pick them up with 3 fingers
daniel thompson: the true originator of the 'jet tail' design
a pavel quan with cqc speed dialers at the lokbox booth
reno abillera tail design
i don't know what this is, but it looked sooo fun
carl eckstrom finless epoxy alaias
carl eckstrom 5-fin epoxy asymmetrical
hydrodynamica asmmetrical: speachless..
wall of brewers
campbell brothers 5-fin bonzer at the moonlight glassing booth: surfy surfy
classic bonzer
surfy surfy: finless with microchannels (zoom in to appreciate)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
