MC collateral space

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].

dbox_main synthétique

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.

an abstract representational artform that increasingly finds less of a place in this unfortunate profession.

alain delon

alain delon.

tres cool, no?

mentawais

someday we'll make it there...

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.

dbox jewelry visualization

dbox jewelry visualization.

deneuve

aires mateus

aires mateus (the good ones).

the grand egyptian museum entry that should have won.

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.

County Line_23oct09

Clean and ok this am

Another california day

23oct09

Buried treasure in Gardena

This one's glassed!

Can't wait to bring this one to Hawaii for Christmas...just hope it
lasts that long!
Thanks for the great glassing Javier (Hern surfboards).

Spotted in culver city 21nov09

City of glass

Yeah, you!

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)

sacred craft_legends

dick brewer


mark richards


robert august

reno abillera

Casappella

a great project by a great friend.
architecture by ueli krauss (althaus architekten)
world class photography by alex gempeler
www.althaus-architekten.ch

Nobel peace prize 2009