1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces Exhibition - Victoria and Albert Museum

1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces Exhibition - Victoria and Albert Museum

Home Sales Fell 25.5% in July, Renewing Economic Anxiety - NYTimes.com

Home Sales Fell 25.5% in July, Renewing Economic Anxiety - NYTimes.com

Interesting read especially as we're at the ISEA conference at Dortmund, Germany where we've heard rumors that 30% of our host cities buildings being empty.

Relatedly our friends Jack Stenner and Patrick Lemieux are promoting their related project Open House where you can virtually control a foreclosed home in Gainesville, FL. More here.

Kavi Gupta's Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer

Kelly Sears. The Body Besieged (2009, 4:30)

Last night we went to Kavi Gupta's screening of film and video works. Biking over to a new neighborhood felt divine. Lots of exercise and fresh air after a day stuck in front of the computer. A nice size crowd gathered and felt approachable. Slowly getting to know this art scene, full of Americans. We are the what?...5th or 6th major wave of American expat artists to flock to this affordable city? And we're ok with that. Others worked hard, building a foundation, and we benefit from that labor. It's comforting to know everyone is so approachable.

Highlights from the films like here.

Lindsay Lawson. Das Ding (2010, 3:39)

Deanna Erdmann. Donut (2008)

John Kilduff. Let's Exercise, Make Smoothies, and Paint a Supermodel (2007)

Danny Jauregui

8709 Bath, 2010, Gouache on canvas, 96 x 60 in

Danny Jauregui

My friend Danny's work at Leslie Tonkonow, opening Thursday, September 16 at 7:00pm. Some of the same ideas I'm thinking about in The Sherwin Series, but how heartbreakingly powerful in the delicate rendering...


Disguised Ruin #6 [Crumbled Corner], 2010, Gouache on hand-cut paper, 14 x 11 in

Germany, Tempelhof Park: Grandiose Nazi airport becomes a wild and free park in Berlin - latimes.com

Germany, Tempelhof Park: Grandiose Nazi airport becomes a wild and free park in Berlin - latimes.com

Inventive use of space in cash-strapped times. Airport turned park. Settling into Berlin...

BLDGBLOG: Building Storm

BLDGBLOG: Building Storm

This Bldgblog post (link in title) is from 13 months ago but is fascinating, especially as it relates to the paintings I'm currently developing. In the spirit of Velocity Girl, the Smiths and countless other bands whose pop rhythms belie anger, so the colors from a pre-bubble bursting 2007 forecasts sooth the splintering content in the image above (study for a painting to be started tomorrow).

The houses grows out of my complicated history to home—my own tendency towards wanderlust, my curiosity about other nomads, and my father's history as the builder of homes. With the upcoming year yet again overseas, we'll see how this imagery evolves...especially as I leave Florida where emergency specialist express concerns about hurricanes transforming vacant homes into violent projectiles. Yikes.

Dana Schutz in Ireland

Herzog & de Meuron

Architecture Photo Gallery: AD Special: Herzog & de Meuron by Duccio Malagamba – ArchDaily

Finally painting all day. The Vitrahaus reminds me of the housing forms I'm creating ...although Herzog & de Meuron's creation looks a little more barnacle buildup where mine are definitely exploded, reconfigured balls of grace.