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nine isolation studies by chuck jones
antfarm
mission go-to page for minute to minute updates
per nyt
watchers of the sky story
nasa mars landscape digital color photograph
from nssdc library
nasa index
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Christopher Williams,Model: 1964 Renault Dauphine-Four, R-1095
(Nr. 9), 2000, black-and-white photograph, 25 3/8 x 29 3/8".
victory over the sun and the black quadralateral
return the Elgin marbles
muschamp chronicles, parts 1,2,3 (11/02/00)
"The subject of the 4,466-word article was straightforward enough--the winner of a competition to build the newspaper's new Times Square headquarters--but you needed a graduate degree in Times protocol to keep track of all the roles Muschamp played in writing it. First there was Muschamp the critic, reviewing the design proposed by the winning architect, Renzo Piano. Then there was Muschamp the Times employee, who wasn't in a position to judge his bosses' decision too severely. There was also Muschamp the Times representative, who had to be gracious to the three losing finalists who had gone to the considerable trouble of entering the contest in the first place. Muschamp juggled the apparently conflicting rhetorical requirements imposed by these roles--the need for tough-mindedness and the need to brown-nose and be generous seemed particularly at odds--by praising Piano strongly but praising one set of finalists (Frank O. Gehry and David Childs) even more strongly, then attacking another finalist (Cesar Pelli) harshly. Muschamp thereby sacrificed a modicum of graciousness to gain the aura of independence."
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black boxes
"The Trade Center is an architectural martyr, our only skyscraper martyr, and a martyr to democracy. Penn Station was a martyr to preservation, and its loss galvanized us into realizing how critical great buildings are and led to a resolve not to let that happen again. The Trade Center was a martyr in the broadest sense to the values of our society, and also a modern symbol. Although we like to think of ourselves as technologically very advanced, our architectural symbols are things like the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol. So a modern piece of architecture symbolizing the national ideals is quite a remarkable moment. The replanning of the Trade Center connects to preservation. One of the things for which there was broad consensus after the Trade Center fell was the need to put the streets back on that 16-acre block and restore a more traditional urban framework. There again we see the value shift. Nobody would have ever wanted [the attack] to happen, but people are viewing it as an opportunity to correct some things in that area. It's being used in a positive way."
"But the new generation of house designs takes a different view of the role of rooms, space and usage. The idea that a house was more than a shelter led the influential Swiss designer and thinker Le Corbusier to describe the house as a "machine for living in" in 1923. From his philosophy of architecture flowed the idea that we can improve our lives by standardising and rationalising the design of our houses. But by 1969, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was writing: "If I were asked to name the chief benefits of the house, I should say the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
The journey from box to house
By Ross Atkin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
When architect Mark Strauss sees a shipping container, he doesn't think of cargo holds. Instead, he thinks of housing. He imagines these hulking steel boxes - which weigh from 4,000 to 9,000 pounds - as stackable living units; as modular, low-cost homes or shelters that can help alleviate the mounting surplus of containers piling up in American ports.
"September 11 is beyond words, buildings, and memorials. The eight finalists and Libeskind's plan are all examples of the corporate sublime. The buildings are bland, the memorials canned. They all sanitize and shrink-wrap our emotions in a fanatically tidy visual security blanket. Each makes us settle for less and turns a blind eye toward the heart. We, the living, deserve more. The dead, much more than that."
-Saltz
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muschampian picks of the year
Merry Christmas From The Family
Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk at our Christmas party
We were drinking champagne punch and homemade eggnog
Little sister brought her new boyfriend
He was a Mexican
We didn't know what to think of him until he sang
Felis Navidad, Felis Navidad
Brother Ken brought his kids with him
The three from his first wife Lynn
And the two identical twins from his second wife Mary Nell
Of course he brought his new wife Kay
Who talks all about AA
Chain smoking while the stereo plays Noel, Noel
The First Noel
Carve the Turkey
Turn the ball game on
Mix margaritas when the eggnog's gone
Send somebody to the Quickpak Store
We need some ice and an extension chord
A can of bean dip and some Diet Rites
A box of tampons, Marlboro Lights
Haleluja everybody say Cheese
Merry Christmas from the family
Fred and Rita drove from Harlingen
I can't remember how I'm kin to them
But when they tried to plug their motor home in
They blew our Christmas lights
Cousin David knew just what went wrong
So we all waited out on our front lawn
He threw a breaker and the lights came on
And we sang Silent Night, Oh Silent Night, Oh Holy Night
Carve the turkey turn the ball game on
Make Bloody Mary's
Cause We All Want One!
Send somebody to the Stop 'N Go
We need some celery and a can of fake snow
A bag of lemons and some Diet Sprites
A box of tampons, some Salem Lights
Haleluja, everybody say cheese
Merry Christmas from the Family
Felis Navidad
-Robert Earl Keen