Video: Painting reality with spilled paint in Berlin - thestar.com
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Amie Siegel - Black Moon
Amie Siegel - Black Moon
If I was in Stuttgart, I would go see Amie Siegel's Black Moon. Nothing like scenes of armed women wandering around the empty architecture of financial speculation.
Monday, July 04, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Samantha Barber - Graphic Designer
Samantha Barber - Graphic Designer
Graphic designer / artist Samantha Barber with some work on female expat issues.
Thanks to Janis Conn for the link.
Graphic designer / artist Samantha Barber with some work on female expat issues.
Thanks to Janis Conn for the link.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - video | Culture | guardian.co.uk
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - video | Culture | guardian.co.uk: "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Passive House
Last week we went on an excellent Creative Sustainability Tour given by the Institute for Creative Sustainability. More information here: http://id22.net/en/
Favorite stop: Passivhaus Schoenholzer Strasse (pictured above). More information at http://deo-berlin.de/
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 | International Center of Photography
Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 | International Center of Photography
Once-Classified Photos of Ground Zero Hiroshima
Commissioner of Good Taste
In two weeks we'll be in Cinque Terre where the colors of houses are regulated by the a commissioner of good taste in the regional government. Really.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Case-Shiller Index Expected to Show New Low in House Prices - NYTimes.com
Case-Shiller Index Expected to Show New Low in House Prices - NYTimes.com
Quotes from the article:
- After every giddy boom comes the hangover, they acknowledge, but that deep-rooted desire for a castle of one’s own quickly reasserts itself.
- No one ever renovated the kitchen or redid a room for the kids in a rental...
Reminds me of our recent visit to Dresden. On a tour of the city, our tour guide mentioned that when the wall fell, her parents bought their home and did renovations. She explained that few people did renovations, especially outside of their homes, when they were state-owned.
Quotes from the article:
- After every giddy boom comes the hangover, they acknowledge, but that deep-rooted desire for a castle of one’s own quickly reasserts itself.
- No one ever renovated the kitchen or redid a room for the kids in a rental...
Reminds me of our recent visit to Dresden. On a tour of the city, our tour guide mentioned that when the wall fell, her parents bought their home and did renovations. She explained that few people did renovations, especially outside of their homes, when they were state-owned.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Architecture + Art at UCSD
Kyong Park. 24620. Ongoing.
24620, a Kyong Park project, is an abandoned house from Detroit in search of a new home. The house was cut up so that it could be moved and re-assembled anywhere in the world. It is a 'fugitive house,' running from the city of Detroit, which has destroyed or burned more than two hundred thousand homes in the last fifty years.
24620 desperately extends its existence by travelling. Its first journey was made in April, 2001, when it crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and was re-constructed and presented in the 3rd annual Archilab exhibition in Orléans, France. Since then, it has been to five other European cities, and continues on.
With its pieces misplaced and their incisions permanent, the house, when re-assembled, replicates the condition of a dysfunctional city in the violence of dismembered spaces. Wherever it may go, the house takes the ideals and failures of modernism with it, creating discourses on the cultural state and destiny of each community.
Architecture folks affiliated with my alma mater, UCSD. Important work. Hurrah.
Teddy Cruz
Kyong Park
James Enos
Sam Kronic
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Paradise Valley, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In contrast to the Frankfurt Kitchen:
"It has expensive real estate, with a median home price at $1.74 million, with many exceeding $10 million and some over $40 million."
Frankfurt Kitchen at MAK Vienna
Frankfurter Kitchen, Wikipedia entry
M A K o n l i n e
This last fall, I received a DAAD Research Grant to look at 20th Century German compact housing and the use of color to lighten the country's mode during difficult economic times. The Frankfurt Kitchen was one example of designs that met these goals.
From MAK Online:
The cost savings resulting from the reduced size of the kitchen remained significant, however, so that the Frankfurt Kitchen offered the double advantage of lower construction costs and less work for the occupants. Only by arguing in these terms, was it possible to persuade the Frankfurt city council to agree to the installation of the kitchens, with all their sophisticated work-saving features. The result was that, from 1926 to 1930, no municipal apartment could be built without the Frankfurt Kitchen.
In this period around 10,000 apartments were built with the Frankfurt Kitchen.
Frankfurter Kitchen, MAK Vienna
Gretchen Morgenson: The 'Reckless' Origins Of The Financial Meltdown : NPR
Gretchen Morgenson: The 'Reckless' Origins Of The Financial Meltdown : NPR
In the interview, Morgenson kept mentioning characters in the housing crisis who were wrapped up in "the American flag of home ownership." It's the unsustainable model imploding in my recent artwork, especially a period when Wall Street players bet against the model's success. Arranging numbers. Repackaging and selling loans.
In the interview, Morgenson kept mentioning characters in the housing crisis who were wrapped up in "the American flag of home ownership." It's the unsustainable model imploding in my recent artwork, especially a period when Wall Street players bet against the model's success. Arranging numbers. Repackaging and selling loans.
How To Create a Job | This American Life
How To Create a Job | This American Life
Attracted to jobs overseas, my muse, the female expatriate, is constantly chasing a rainbow. Although more on domestic job creation, this episode from This American Life spells out how jobs get shuffled from state to state. Fascinating overview of how priorities warp through carefully crafted lenses like reduced regulation and people are encouraged to move away from traditional support structures.
Attracted to jobs overseas, my muse, the female expatriate, is constantly chasing a rainbow. Although more on domestic job creation, this episode from This American Life spells out how jobs get shuffled from state to state. Fascinating overview of how priorities warp through carefully crafted lenses like reduced regulation and people are encouraged to move away from traditional support structures.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Horst Ademeit at Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof - Berlin: "HORST ADEMEIT"
I'm still haunted by this exhibition last week. I'm currently working on an exhibition called The Excess of Memory that goes hand and hand with an expat's tendency to live many lives and mix those memories. My occasional obsession with journal writing attempts to sort out people and places from past lives. Horst's incessant journals and photo-taking (8500 polaroids in the exhibition!) reminded me of this tendency...